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Andreea Ionescu, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, West University of Timisoara. Since 2002 she taught and published in the fields of Developmental Psychology, Communication skills, and Applied Social Psychology. Psychotherapist certified by the European Association for Transactional Psychology. Experienced in Transactional Analysis applied in clinical, organizational and educational psychology/ psychological diagnosis and intervention. She has participated in the design and carrying out of the international FP7 research project Low Carbon at Work (LOCAW) led by University of Coruna (Spain). Her teaching/and facilitating expertise includes psychodiagnosis, health psychology and education for health, soft skills, and personal development workshops. She has extensive experience in teambuilding facilitation.

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Liliana Santos Dias Lobato holds a degree in Clinical Psicology since 2000. 

Since 2002, Liliana Lobato works as Clinical Psychologist at Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health of HCCB, where her main activities and responsibilities are:

- Consultation of Psychology in outpatient;

- Consultation of Psychology in hospital;

- Consultation to smoking cessation in Health Center - Covilhã;

- Consultation of youth and adolescents in the Health Center - Covilhã;

- Training (clinical sessions);

- Group Therapy;

- Training of social skills;

- Relax sessions;

- Psychoeducation;

- Supervisor of students internships from 2nd year of Master's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology at University of Beira Interior (UBI);

- Legal Skills (intelligence, personality, etc.)

Liliana Lobato also attended several training courses including:

- Psychological Intervention on Anxiety and Depression in Adult - 24 hours (ISPA)

- Basic Life Support - 4 hours (HCCB)

- Behavioral Therapies - 12 hours (ISPA)

- Clinical Neuropsychology - 80 hours (ISPA)

- Health and Safety at Work - 30 hours (CBHC)

- Initial Teacher Training - 99 hours (Cilan) - (CAP EDF No. 24883/2004)

- Stroke Prevention and Treatment in Addiction, 24 hours (HCCB)

- Recruiting and Selecting, 24 hours (ISPA)

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Estela Alexandra Neves Landeiro  holds a degree in Clinical Psychology and Counseling by Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias since 2000.
From April of 2003 to November of 2005, Estela worked as Military Psychologist at Portuguese Army.
Since December of 2005 works as Clinical Psychology at Psychological Service of HCCB, where her main activities and responsibilities are the assessment, support and psychotherapeutic intervention to inpatient and outpatient consultation in the following areas:
- Permanent Support to Infectious Diseases Service, Internal Medicine, Palliative Medicine and Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Hospital of Fundão.
- Outpatient: Clinic Psychology / Psychotherapy consultation in different psychopathologies, Alcohology consultation, Psychology / Palliative Medicine consultation and Support Grief consultation at Hospital of Fundão. Outpatient Psychology / Gastroenterology consultation since April 15th of 2011 and outpatient Oncology Psychology consultation at Day Hospital of Pêro da Covilhã Hospital since the February 21st of 2013;
- Supervisor of students Curriculum Stages in Clinical Psychology from Department of Psychology and Education in University of Beira Interior (UBI), since 2006;
- Supervisor for Internship for Health Psychology Course (2006) by University of Porto Lusiada.
- Supervisor for Internship for Postgraduate Palliative Care Course (2011), by School of Health of Viana do Castelo.
- Researcher in health and disease psychology
- Trainer in different areas of intervention in HCCB.
- Trainer in Psychology courses in different institutions.
- Participation and presentation of papers and posters at several conferences and trainings.
- Participation in trainings and events organized by the Volunteer Department of Hospital Center of Cova da Beira.
- Responsible for the Operating Procedure about Psychotherapeutic Assessment Batteries and Intervention in the Department of Psychology of Hospital of Fundão.
- Responsible for the Internal Procedure in the Department of Clinical Psychology of Hospital of Fundão.
- Responsible for the Performance and Creation of Databases Protocol of the Psychology Department of Hospital of Fundão.

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Maria João Rosa Gregório Pessoa holds a degree in Nursing since 1991.

Since 2001, Mª João work as graduate nurse at Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health of HCCB, where is responsible for external consultation and domiciliary service.

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Vitor Manuel Sainhas de Oliveira holds a degree in Medicine, since 1981. In 1990, Vitor post-graduated in Psychiatry. Since 1997, Vitor is a medical consultant. For May of 2011 to February of 2014, he was the Director of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Service in HCCB. Since March of 2014, Vitor is the Director of Psychiatry and Mental Health Department in HCCB.

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Medical doctor, specialized in abdominal surgery. Working in Romanian Prison Service since 1999. From 2004 director of Dej Prison Hospital. Main working area is managing health care services destined to inmate population. Interested in health care standards, alcohol and drugs, treatment of psychiatric ill inmates. Expertise in medical facilities management.

He is a Board Member of Salford University Centre for Prison Studies (UK) and member of numerous professional organizations such as American Telemedicine Association, American Correctional Association, International Association for Correctional Forensic Psychology and the International Corrections and Prisons Association.

He initiated and coordinated the development of telemedicine project in Romanian Prison Service and  e-learning project for prison staff.

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• Managing health care services destined to inmate population;
• e-health;
• Interested in health care standards, alcohol and drugs, treatment of psychiatric ill inmates,e-learning;
• Expertise in medical facilities management, e-learning for prison staff.

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Born in 12/12/1946. Carlos Leitão is the head of service at the psichyatry department. He was a director of the psychiatry department at the CBCH til January 2014. He is an invited professor at the health sciences faculty of Universidade da Beira Interior. He is a tutor and class coordinator of psychiatry to 5º and 6º year medical students.

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Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a career in corrections spanning more than 40 years as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. His public service began in 1974 as a psychologist in Canada’s oldest maximum-security prison, Kingston Penitentiary. Over the next 22 years he remained with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), ending the public sector phase of his career as Director of Strategic Planning and Director General of Research and Development. From 1987 to 1994, he developed and managed a national program of research for the Correctional Service of Canada responsible for a budget of close to 1.5 million and supervising about 20 professional staff. Beginning in 1988, he was instrumental in introducing a correctional programming strategy throughout the federal correctional system in Canada, emphasizing an evidence-based framework for correctional practice that was subsequently emulated internationally.

Frank co-founded T3 Associates Training and Consulting Inc. in 1993 in order to provide research-based training and technical assistance in effective practice to correctional jurisdictions and social service agencies internationally. He has worked for numerous agencies throughout Canada and the United States, at the state and federal level, and for county-level probation and parole agencies, school districts, forensic psychiatric hospitals, employment agencies, and numerous community-based criminal justice agencies. Internationally, he has worked in more than 20 countries, including in the UK, Europe and the Scandinavian countries, Australia and New Zealand, and most recently in extensive engagements with the Singapore Ministry of Youth and Family Services, the Namibian Correctional Service in Africa and the Barbados Prison Service in the Caribbean. Frank was adjunct professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa from 1987-1994. He was on the elected Delegate Assembly of the American Correctional Association and served as a member of the ACA Program Council, Exemplary Practices Council, Professional Education Council, Correctional Employees Committee, Policy and Resolutions Committee, and the International Relations Committee. He served three terms as chairperson of the ACA Research Council and is past president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology. Frank also served four terms on the International Correctional Services Accreditation Panel established by the Home Office of England and Wales. He is on the Executive Board of the International Corrections & Prisons Association and co-chair of the Annual Conference Program Committee. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies at the Polytechnic of Namibia. Frank has been on the Editorial Boards of the Prison Journal and the Journal of Substance Use and Misuse and he was the founding editor of “Forum on Corrections Research”, a Canadian quarterly journal dedicated to promoting an effective, accountable and knowledge-based corrections.

In 1998 Frank was awarded the American Correctional Association Lejins Research Award, in 2003 the International Community Corrections Presidents Award, and in 2011 the Volunteers of America Maude Booth Award for his career contributions to research and program development in the field of corrections. He has authored numerous monographs, book chapters and journal articles on the assessment and treatment of offenders, has developed a dozen well respected cognitive-behavioral and motivational programs for both juvenile and adult offenders, and has also co-authored the book Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates (with E. Zamble, Springer-Verlag, 1988).

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Graça Esgalhado has a PhD in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Health Psychology. She graduated in Educational Psychology. Since 2007 to present she has been assistant professor at the Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Covilhã – Portugal. From 2009 to December 2013 was coordinator of the Department of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Covilhã – Portugal.

Personal page: https://www.ubi.pt/Pagina_Pessoal.aspx?id=mgpe

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: 

• BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
• RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
• Systemic family therapy supporting reintegration of inmates in Their family and in the society | Erasmus+
• PROTEJUST Professionalization of Teaching in Correctional Criminal Justice | Erasmus +
• PREDUC GBL - Prison Education Game Based Learning | Erasmus+
• Training is performance - Improving leadership skills of top management of Romanian Prison Service | Erasmus+
• Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations | EC VP/2014/004 2014
• PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
• CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
• Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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• Lucas, C., Pereira, H., & Esgalhado, G. (2013). Ciúme e Sexualidade: Uma compreensão científica. Ed. 1. Lisboa: Placebo.
• Esgalhado, G. e Simões, F. (2010). Cognitive psychology: attention and memory. Lisboa: Edições Placebo (ISBN:978-989-8463-08-1).
• Esgalhado, G., Simões, F. e Pereira. H. (2010). Versão portuguesa do Teste Stroop de Cores e Palavras: Aferição para a infância e adolescência. Lisboa: Edições Placebo (ISBN:978-989-8463-10-4).
• H. Pereira, L. Branco, F. Simões, G. Esgalhado, e M. Afonso (2010) (Eds). Educação para a saúde, cidadania e desenvolvimento sustentado. Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior (ISBN: 978-989-96996-0-1).
• Damasceno, C. & Esgalhado, G. (2012). Validação das palavras neutras e emocionais para o teste stroop Emocional para o screening de risco suicida: Resultados com amostras portuguesas. In J. L. Pais Ribeiro, I. Leal, A. Pereira & S. Monteiro (Org.). Psicologia da saúde: Desafios à promoção da saúde em doenças crónicas. 1ª Edição. Lisboa: Placebo, Editora LDA.
• Reis, M. e Esgalhado, G. (2010). Importance of Social Support on the Psychological Well-being of Older Adults living in Assisted-living residences. In H. Pereira, L. Branco, F. Simões, G. Esgalhado e R. M. Afonso (Eds), Educação para a saúde: Cidadania e desenvolvimento sustentado (pp. 786-800.) Covilhã: UBI.
• Pereira, H. & Esgalhado, G. (2012). "The formation of homosexual identity in Latin America", International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology 1, 4: 169 - 178.
• Esgalhado, G. & Pereira, H. (2012). "The effect of gender and education in the Stroop test", International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology 1, 2: 77 - 86.
• Prata, T & Esgalhado, G.. (2012). Study about emotions in a sample of portuguese elderly university students. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology, 1, 3: 317-328.
• Simões, F. Rodrigues, L.; Esgalhado, G. & Guimarães, C. (2009). Desenvolvimento do auto-conceito pela tutoria pedagógica por crianças do primeiro ciclo de sua autoria. Psicologia Escolar e Educacional, 12(2), 327-336.

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João Manuel R. S. Tavares is graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal (1992). He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He is a senior researcher and project coordinator at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management (INEGI) and an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). João Tavares is co-editor of more than 20 books, co-author of more than 20 book chapters, 450 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 2 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental. Also, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD thesis and supervisor of several post-doc projects, and has participated in many scientific projects both as researcher and as scientific coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction and new product development.

Personal page: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares

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Steven Van De Steene is IT Director of the Directorate General of Penal Institutions in Belgium. He manages an IT service with a strong focus on finding flexible solutions as an answer to the wide variety of business needs within the complex penitentiary context. Prior to his current position, he established a shared services direction at the central ICT department. Steven studied Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Ghent. After his graduation he started working as a probation Officer. With the growth of the organization came the need for a better national IT support. As a project manager, Steven took the opportunity to establish good working IT solutions by trying to understand real business needs and enlarging his knowledge in Information Technology. In 2009 he became a certified Enterprise IT Architect at the University of Antwerp Management School. Now he’s concentrating on implementing the principles of IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture within his organization. Steven is member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association and leads an Expert Group on ICT within EuroPris.

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Hugo Meinedo received the Bsc, Msc and Doutor (PhD) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1996, 2000 and 2008 respectively. In June 2014 he joint MLDC. His expertise is in spoken language processing with a very strong background in signal processing and machine learning methods. He participated in many European and national funded projects such as TECNOVOZ, VidiVideo, I-DASH, LIREC, euTV, Metanet, U-STAR, DIRHA and SpeDial. His research focuses on speech recognition, audio analysis, multimodal audio-visual applications, speaker characterization, paralinguistic information extraction from speech such as the detection of emotional states.

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Annika Hämäläinen (MSFT) holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering (2000) from the Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences in Finland, an MSc degree in Speech and Language Processing (2002) from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and a PhD degree in Automatic Speech Recognition (2009) from Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. Her PhD research focused on the use of syllable-length acoustic models in Automatic Speech Recognition, and she published the results of her work in several international journals and conferences. In addition to her academic experience, Annika has several years of industrial experience in the field of speech technology, having worked both on Automatic Speech Recognition and on Speech Synthesis with several well-known companies in the area, including British Telecommunications, Nuance Communications, and Loquendo. Since January 2012, Annika has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Microsoft Language Development Center in Lisbon, Portugal, working on providing Automatic Speech Recognition for various Portuguese and European academia-industry collaborations and actively publishing the results of her work. Sara Candeias (MSFT) holds two Degrees in Portuguese and Classical Languages, Scientific area (1994) and Educational Training area (1995) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, a Master in Portuguese and Classical Languages (1999), also from the University of Coimbra, Portugal and a PhD in Linguistics (2007) from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She was invited assistant professor in the University of Beira Interior-Portugal, University of Coimbra-Portugal and in the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra-Portugal, where she taught and conducted research in computational linguistics. Since January 2008 she is a researcher in speech technology in the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering, University of Coimbra (Portugal) and since September 2012 she is also a visiting researcher in L2F: Spoken Language Systems Lab - INESC-ID Lisboa (Portugal), assuming responsibilities for defining strategies to increase collaborative research in the human language technologies area. In May 2014 shejoined MLDC has a Computational Linguist for all the topics related with the European and Brazilian Portuguese Language (such as upcoming Speech Recognition support for Cortana and XBoxOne and Text-To-Speech improvements), as well as a Science and Technology Project Manager. She has also been participating in projects and consortia since 2008, some of them as principal researcher (e.g., He[eee]sit[u]ação: Portuguese Hesitation Models; TICE.Healthy: Systems of Health and Quality of Life; PARSEME: PARSing and Multi-word Expressions; Kids2Read: Linguistic Characterization of Children’s Reading; Id_Est: Automatic Simplification of Legal Texts). She is author and co-author of 3 scientific books, 8 book chapters and over 50 papers on the fields of Portuguese language, Phonetics, Text-to-Speech Conversion and Speech Recognition. She developed an automatic system for converter phonemes into phonemes for European Portuguese as well as 17 dictionaries for pronunciation in European Portuguese. She is a member of the scientific and program committees of several international conferences in Computational Processing of Portuguese Language. She has been invited for talks in various academic sessions and has received a number of awards during her academic career. Born on May 28th 1972, she is a proud mother of three beautiful children, two boys and one little girl.

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Cristiano Chesi (1975, Pisa, Italy) holds a research position at IUSS, Pavia (Center for NEurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax) since December 2011 and a research grant at ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) since June 2011. He got a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences at University of Siena (2005) where he worked at CISCL (Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language) as Computational Linguist since 2004. His research areas are Computational Linguistics (grammatical formalisms, complexity theory, Parsing and Machine Translation), Language Acquisition and Linguistic Disabilities (deafness, aphasia and SLI). He collaborates with the Microsoft Language Development Center (Lisbon) since 2008 on various projects related to Text Normalization and Grammar Authoring for improving the speech recognition experience of Windows Mobile users; he got a Marie Curie Fellowship at City University of London, Erasmus professor at University of Geneva, Visiting Scholar at MediaLab and Dep. of Linguistics at MIT (Cambridge, MA), Visiting student at IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of Trento), Erasmus student at University of Rennes II (France). Among the research projects, he developed (with Valentina Bianchi, University of Siena) a (minimalist, in the sense of Chomsky 1995) grammatical framework dubbed "Top-Down syntax" (formalized as Phase-based Minimalist Syntax, PMG, Chesi 2007).

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Michael Tjalve holds an MA in Linguistics from University of Copenhagen and University of Paris (1999) and a PhD in Speech Technology from University College London (2007). He has been working in the speech technology community since 1999 and his work has focused on innovation and enhancement of speech technology and speech applications with an emphasis on bringing research to market and into the hands of end-users. Michael Tjalve has been working for speech technology companies and universities in Europe and the US and is currently managing speech technology innovation in the speech group at Microsoft. He has participated in commercial and academic research, both as a hands-on contributor and as a manager. He is an expert in accent variation modeling and cross-language speech recognition. He holds 6 patents in speech technology and has made several internationally, peer-reviewed publications and presentations. Michael Tjalve has since 2009 been Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington where he’s teaching speech technology in the Computational Linguistics MS program. He is member of the Industry Advisory Board at the University of Washington, member of IEEE and ISCA and on the board of directors of AVIOS Seattle.

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João Freitas holds a Degree in Computer Engineering (2007) from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. He has been working at the Microsoft Language Development Center (Lisbon, Portugal, http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/mldc/) as a Software Engineer since 2006 where he has participated in several R&D projects in the areas of Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Crowd-Sourcing Data Collections and Ambient Assisted Living.  He is also a PhD student since 2010 in MAPi, a joint Doctoral Program in Computer Science from the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto. His main research activity is in the area of Silent Speech Interfaces. He also has interests in other areas of research such as Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision.

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José Miguel Sales Dias holds a bachelor (1985) and a master (1988) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (1998) from ISCTE-IUL where he was an Associated Professor until 2005, holding currently an Invited Associated Professor, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality and Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces. Since November 2005, he is the Director of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and Natural User Interaction Technologies of Microsoft Corporation in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC, http://www.microsoft.com/pt-pt/mldc/), which acts in the field of natural human-computer interaction. He is regularly commissioned by the European Commission for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author or editor of 11 scientific books or journal editions, 12 indexed papers in international journals, 26 chapters in indexed international books, 144 other publications, workshops or keynotes in international conferences. Since 1992 he has participated or participates in 31 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP), and 15 National (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT). He obtained 5 scientific prizes. He is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA and IEEE; editorial boards of several journal; several Program Committees of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech technologies, Accessibility and Ambient Assisted Living. He was President of ADETTI, an ISCTE-IUL associated R&D research center. He was Vice-president and Secretary of the Portuguese Group of Computer Graphics, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born at December 1st 1961, happy father of three children, two girls and one boy.

Personal page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel_Dias2/

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Petros Lameras is a researcher at the SGI. His research interests span the areas of technology-enhanced learning in general and within the research strand of mapping pedagogical models and principles to game design, with a strong focus on integrating the learning design methodology as way of guiding and supporting academics to create pedagogically-driven game designs and game ideas. He has worked as a researcher in European and national projects exploring the use of technology in learning as well as in the integration of games and digital content for developing authentic and meaningful teaching and learning experiences. He has been engaged in supporting and guiding teachers in designing, describing, capturing and representing their teaching ideas by developing case studies and learning activity design templates. Dr Lameras has coordinated, managed and implemented a number of EU educational research projects, exploring the use of technology and serious games in formal (schools and universities) and informal (museums, science centres) learning settings. He has collaborated with colleagues and practitioners alike to build and instantiate research ideas for funding and managing grants (e.g. FP7, LLP, eContentPlus etc.). He has worked autonomously and collaboratively in different instances for developing e-learning content in accordance to structured processes and standards (e.g. IEEE LOM, IMS-LD, SCORM etc.) involving quality assurance processes and strategies for ensuring the content and/or activity produced matches the level of students (i.e. it is aligned with students’ prior experiences and knowledge of subject matter and e-learning).

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Ian Dunwell is a Senior Researcher at Coventry University's Serious Games Institute. He has recently completed the evaluation of the Department for Transport's £2.5m Code of Everand serious game for road safety. As a multiplayer online roleplaying environment, this game sought to create communities amongst its players as a basis for social learning. As lead author of the project's final evaluation report, Dr. Dunwell co-ordinated in-depth qualitative and quantitative research to gain insight into the game's 100,000 user base. His key research interests lie in the assessment and evaluation of game-based learning solutions, and how best to feed this research into a pragmatic and participatory design process. Technical research interests include the application of semantic web technologies to populate games with validated and context-sensitive educational content: as a co-investigator on the ALICE (Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative, and Emotional Approaches) FP7 STREP, his work has explored the integration of serious games with learning content management systems, exploring the pedagogic as well as technical advantages of such approaches. As of January 2012, he has begun directing a PhD studentship fully funded by Jaguar Land Rover, examining the use of avatars as vehicle interfaces, and is principal investigator of an I-CASE studentship in liaison with industrial partner PlayGen, exploring the use of the semantic web as a resource for serious game development.

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Panagiotis Petridis is a Senior Researcher at the Serious Game Institute. Panagiotis is the technical advisor for the Serious Game Institute and he is the MSc Director of Serious Games and Digital Content.  Panagiotis is currently involved in three EU funded projects the METPEX, Inspiring Science and MASSELTOV and in the SHASPA Initiative and he is leading the ROMA NOVA project. He is the co-investigator of two EPSRC projects in the areas of build environment and manufacturing. Previously Panagiotis was involved in two EU proposals as co-investigator the ALICE and SIMAULA. Panagiotis has extensive experience in managing, coordinating and implementing research projects. Previously, Panagiotis has worked as a Research Fellow in the university of Salford and was involved in a EU Funded project titled MANUBUILD.  Panagiotis has had 10 years of experience in working in Virtual Environments, Human Computer Interaction, 3D Interfaces and Haptic Devices, Pervasive and ubiquitous computing.  He holds a PhD in Computer Graphics from Sussex University titled “Interactions in Digital Heritage Systems. For the duration of his PhD, Panagiotis was involved in two European Union [EU] Projects, firstly the Augmented Representation of Cultural Object (ARCO) from 2001 until 2004, and secondly the European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage (EPOCH) project from 2004 until 2007. Panagiotis currently holds the post of visiting Research Fellow in Sussex University. 

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Nuno Pombo is the CTO of IPS. Nuno holds a PhD in computer science and is a member of IT Telecommunications Institute (group: Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv. Member of COST Actions: TD1307 "European Model Reduction Network (EU-MORNET)", TC1307 "The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net): Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data". Nuno's R&D interests include big data, data fusion, machine learning, ubiquitous computing, eHealth and correctional and clinical decision support systems. Nuno was a project leader, analyst and software developer (ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence) at Assec Sistemas de Informação e Multimédia (2000-2010). He has extensive experience as manager of large scale projects (PT Sistemas de Informação and Anacom) at Logica (former Integer, 1999-2000) and international projects (Assec Sistemas de Informação e Multimédia, 2008-2010). 

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BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: 

• BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
• RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
• PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
• CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
• Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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• Pombo, N.; K. B. Bousson; Araújo, P.A.; "From Data to Knowledge: Towards Clinical Machine Learning Automation" - Chapter in Ambient Assisted Living, Nuno M. Garcia, Joel José P.C. Rodrigues, Dirk Christian Elias, Miguel Sales Dias, CRC Press, , 2013. 
• Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Web Services for Chronic Pain Monitoring" - Chapter in IAENG Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Sio-Iong Ao, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan,Hideki Katagiri,Li Xu, World Scientific Publishing, , 2012.  
• Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; "Evaluation of a Ubiquitous and Interoperable Computerised System for Remote Monitoring of Ambulatory Post-Operative Pain: A Randomised Controlled Trial", Technology and Health Care, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 63 - 75, January, 2014. 
• Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; "Medical Decision-making Inspired from Aerospace Multisensor Data Fusion Concepts", Informatics for Health and Social Care, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1 - 13, January, 2014. 
• Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Decision Support Systems for Pain Management: A Systematic Review", Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol. -, No. -, pp. - - -, December, 2013.
• Pombo, N.; Araújo, P.A.; J.C. Viana; "Applied Computer Technologies in Clinical Decision Support Systems for Pain Management: A Systematic Review", Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Vol. , No. 26, pp. 2411 - 2425, July, 2013.

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Frutuoso Silva received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics, specialization in computer graphics, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Technical University of Lisbon - IST, Portugal, in 1997. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal, in 2006 and his background is in computer graphics. But in last years, he has oriented it’s research to computer games. He is currently Assistant Professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of Beira Interior where he teaches courses as computer graphics, animation and virtual reality and some programming courses. He is also the creator and leader of the Regain Lab (Reality, Games and Graphics Group) since 2009.

Frutuoso Silva was one of the creators of the master degree in Digital Game Design and Development at University of Beira Interior that will start, for the first time, in September 2014.

Personal page: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~fsilva/

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal: CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games for correctional services | Horizon 2020/2014

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Nuno M. Garcia is the head of BSafe LAB the Beira Interior University laboratory for law enforcement, justice and public safety laboratory (the interdisciplinary research centre aiming to foster and develop new research in the fields of law enforcement, justice and public safety in scientific areas ranging from arts & humanities (including law, history and philosophy), biological & medical sciences, physical sciences & engineering, social & behavioral sciences & education). Nuno holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Beira Interior (UBI) (2008) and he is a 5-year BSc in Mathematics / Informatics also from UBI (1999-2004). He is Assistant Professor and Director of the Computer Science Engineering degree course at the University of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal) and Invited Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies (Lisbon, Portugal). He was founder and is coordinator of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI. He is the coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI and Head of EyeSeeLab in EyeSee Lda. (Lisbon, Portugal). He is the main author of several international, European and Portuguese patents. He member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, a group within GNSO / ICANN. He is also member of ACM SIGBio, ISOC and IEEE. His main interests include Next-Generation Networks, algorithms for bio-signal processing, distributed and cooperative protocols. He is Chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE on Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments.

Personal page: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~ngarcia/

BSAFE LAB project/project proposal:

• BSafeR - European Research Network on Law Enforcement and Public Safety | COST 2014
• RISKIMAB - Evaluation of possible medical-social-behavioral risk factors, generating changes in the brain imaging | Horizon 2020
• IDECOM Innovation, Development and Communication for a better education in Prison System | Erasmus+
• ECOPRIS - Ecological Economics in Prison Administration Work | Erasmus+
• Systemic family therapy supporting reintegration of inmates in Their family and in the society | Erasmus+
• PROTEJUST Professionalization of Teaching in Correctional Criminal Justice | Erasmus +
• PREDUC GBL - Prison Education Game Based Learning | Erasmus+
• Training is performance - Improving leadership skills of top management of Romanian Prison Service | Erasmus+
• Improving expertise in the field of industrial relations | EC VP/2014/004 2014
• PhW4All - Prison healthy workplace for all | EEA Grants
• CIS GAME Critical Incidents Simulation Games | Horizon 2020
• Mental Illness and Prevention of Suicide in Portuguese Prisons (MIPS) | EEA Grants 2014

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