Biographical Note

Professor Marcelino Ferreira graduated in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 1977, and obtained the degrees of MSEE and PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

From 1986 to 1989, he worked as a Systems Engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco, USA, where he was one of the main contributors to the creation of HTO, a computational resource optimization program that became widely known for hydrothermal coordination.
He returned to Técnico in 1989, bringing with him expertise in system optimization and a vision of the opportunities for network engineering created by the exponential growth in computational processing capacity. At that time, he introduced the first graduate-level courses in the area of electric power distribution networks and took responsibility, at the undergraduate level, for the courses on Control and Optimization of Energy Systems and, later, Network Analysis—subjects in which he left a lasting mark of rigor and scientific excellence.

As a Full Professor, from 2007 onwards he undertook numerous scientific and pedagogical coordination roles: he served as Coordinator of the Energy Scientific Area at DEEC and Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy Systems Research Group at INESC-ID, a role he assumed when INESC-ID integrated the Energy group in 2013 and which he maintained, after his retirement as Full Professor, until the end of his life.