Pedro Faria Lopes got his PhD in 1996 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. He is currently Associate Professor at Departamento das Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (DCTI), ISCTE University, Lisbon. He is Vice-President of the Department, responsible for the Master of Science programs. He started his university career in 1984. Previously, since 1976, he worked as teacher, producer and director in animation and cinema, winning several prizes for his work. In 1988 he was Assistant at Geneva University. From 1983 to 1996 he was researcher at INESC were he started research in Computer Animation. In 1991-1992 he created the Multimedia Center and he was its Executive Director until 1994.

He has participated in national and international research projects and he is Senior Research Manager at ADETTI, a research center he co-founded at ISCTE. He has been consultant to and cooperating with the Ministry of Education, Portuguese Government, National Library (Biblioteca Nacional), Atitude Virtual, Mirada, Municipality of Lisbon, Sonofilme, Thomson Digital Image and other institutes and companies.

He has served as Program Committee member of several national and international Workshops and Conferences in Multimedia, Computer Games, Computer and Digital Arts and Computer Animation. He has been expert evaluator for the European Commission since 1995, last evaluations done in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, evaluating research projects in the areas of Multimedia, Virtual Reality, Digital Video and Television, Computer Games, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Computer Animation, Arts and Technology, Cultural Heritage and Preservation, New Methods and Techniques applied to Architecture. He was International Jury Member at the international animation festivals CINANIMA 2000, Portugal, and Anima Mundi 2001, Brazil.

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