MIT Portugal Program Announces 2009 -- 2010 PhD and MSc Admissions Results

Applications for the MIT Portugal Program’s academic year 2009/10 were open until February 28, 2009 for PhD courses and March 31, 2009 for MSc courses. During the admissions process, the Program received 310 applications from 60 different countries around the world. A total of 112 candidates were admitted, of which 47 were awarded an FCT MIT Portugal scholarship (PhD) and 11 were awarded a corporate scholarship (MSc).

The admissions selection process was conducted by juries composed of professors from each participating university in Portugal and from Program faculty at MIT. The juries were as follows:

• Dava Newman (MIT)
• Manuel Nunes da Ponte (Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon)
• Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (Instituto Superior Técnico. Technical University of Lisbon)
• Manuel Mota (School of Engineering, University of Minho)

• António M. Cunha (School of Engineering, University of Minho)
• António Torres Marques (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto)
• Manuel Freitas (Instituto Superior Técnico–Technical University of Lisbon)
• Christopher L. Magee (MIT)

• Carlos Augusto Santos Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico–Technical University of Lisbon)
• David H. Marks (MIT)
• João Serra (Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon)
• Luís Dias (Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra)
• Vitor Leal (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto)

• José Manuel Viegas (Instituto Superior Técnico–Technical University of Lisbon)
• Luís Picado Santos (Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra)
• Jorge Pinho de Sousa (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto)
• Joseph Sussman (MIT)

• José Manuel Viegas (Instituto Superior Técnico–Technical University of Lisbon)
• Luís Picado Santos (University of Coimbra)
• Jorge Pinho de Sousa (University of Porto)
• Joseph Sussman (MIT)

• Academic grades
• Professional CV
• Motivation letter
• Interview (not all courses)
• Reference letters

Candidates who submitted good GRE scores enhanced their chances of acceptance.

The following is a list of candidates who were admitted to each course:

Bioengineering Systems PhD
1.  Joana Maria Rosado da Silva Coelho / Portugal
2.  Marta Magdalena Kamieniak / Poland
3.  Abigail Lauren Horn / USA
4.  Jorge Augusto Dias Ventura de Carvalho / Portugal
5.  Ana Rita Carvalho Domingues / Portugal
6.  Geisa Aparecida Lopes Gonçalves / Brazil
7.  Swarna Deepa Pandian / India
8.  António Miguel Teixeira Vicente / Portugal
9.  Shantesh Hede / India
10.  Mónica Beato Coelho / Portugal
11.  Nuno Ricardo Torres Faria / Portugal
12.  Rúben Duarte Magalhães Alves Pereira / Portugal
13.  Rimenys Junior Carvalho / Brazil
14.  Michaela Simcikova / Czech Republic
15.  Amogh Gopinathan Nair / India
16.  Romina Paula de Aguiar Guedes / Portugal
17.  Pedro Tiago Evangelista / Portugal
18.  Iris Cristina da Luz Batalha / Portugal
19.  Carlos Samuel Marques Boto / Portugal
20.  Fernando Filipe Macieira da Silva / Portugal
21.  Sarah Susan Reynvaan / Germany
22.  Haja Sherief Nazimutheen Musthafa / India
23.  Paulo Jorge Lopes Maia da Silva / Portugal
24.  Javad Hatami / Iran
25.  Nelson Santos Monteiro / Cape Verde

Leaders for Technical Industries PhD (Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing)
1.  Suely Badaró Mangueira R. Costa / Brazil
2.  Michael Donauer / Germany
3.  Irene Cristina Pereira Silva Carvalho / Portugal
4.  Ana Eduarda Sá Silva / Portugal
5.  Maria Manuela Pereira Alves Azevedo / Portugal
6.  Senay Sadic / Turkey
7.  Nuno Guitian Pinheiro Fernandes Oliveira / Portugal
8.  Filipe Miguel Ferreira Nascimento / Portugal
9.  Farzad Sadeghi Tohidi / Iran
10.  Rui Pedro Leitão da Silva Rocha / Portugal
11. Anton Sabaleuski / Belarus
12.  Cláudio de Araújo Monteiro dos Santos / Brazil
13.  Vasco Bernardo Figueiredo Cabral Teles / Portugal
14.  Gabriela Vasconcelos / Portugal
15.  Sara Sofia R. Marques / Portugal
16.  Patrícia Alexandra Oliveira Mansos / Portugal
17.  Vasco Guerreiro Jorge / Portugal
18.  Bruno Samuel Ferreira Gonçalves / Portugal
19.  Ricardo Figueiredo de Sá  / Portugal
20.  Nelson Oliveira / Portugal

Sustainable Energy Systems PhD
1.  Mathieu  Richard / Canada
2.  Maliheh Birjandi Feriz / Iran
3.  Helena Isabel Pereira Monteiro / Portugal
4.  Joana Freire / Brazil
5.  Luís de Andrade de Freitas / Venezuela
6.  Ricardo Bessa / Portugal
7.  Sophie Ndiaye Zhadeev / Senegal
8.  Vanessa Mateus / Portugal
9.  Diana Neves / Portugal
10.  Leonardo Bremermann / Brazil
11.  Edward Antwi / Ghana
12.  Moritz Branco / Germany
13. Anabela Duarte de Carvalho /France
14.  António Abreu / Mozambique
15.  João Santos / Portugal
16.  Jacob Huber / USA
17.  Rodrigo Teixeira Pinto / Brazil
18.  Luís Filipe Parreira / Portugal
19.  Manuela Carreiras / Portugal
20.  Alexandre Lucas / Portugal
21.  Pedro Vicente / Portugal
22.  Onésimo Silva / Portugal
23.  Fernando Borbon Guillen / Costa Rica
24.  Alexandra Tavares / Portugal
25.  Ana Proença / Portugal
26.  Vanessa Tavares / Venezuela
27.  Philip Balitsky / USA
28.  Hermano Bernardo / Portugal
29. Otmar Brandweiner / Austria
30.  Eugénio Rodrigues / Portugal
31.  Ricardo Afonso Pereira Braz Abrantes / Portugal
32.  Nilton Oliveira / France
33.  Lauro André Ribeiro / Brazil
34. Manuel Silva / Portugal
35.  Anup Gurung / Nepal
36.  Antonios Dragoneas / Greece
37.  Pedro Fazenda / Portugal
38.  Rita Paleta / Portugal
39.  Bernardo Silva / Brazil
40.  Donald Scott / Canada
41.  Vasco Portugal Rato / Portugal

Transportation Systems PhD
1.  Francisco Furtado / Portugal
2.  António Andrade / Portugal
3.  Carlos Filipe Marques / Portugal
4.  Gonçalo Santos / Portugal
5.  Ashenafi Aregawi Weldemichael / Ethiopia
6.  João Miguel Correia da Silva Carreira Almeida / Portugal
7.  Ana Galelo / Portugal
8.  Afshan Aman / Pakistan
9.  Frederico Morgado / Portugal
10.  Merkebe Getachew Demissie / Ethiopia
11.  Mohammad Mahdi Hajizamani / Iran
12.  Filmon Habtemichael / Eritrea

Complex Transportation Infrastructure Systems MSc
1.  Aleksandr Prodan / USA
2.  António Sérgio Domingues / Portugal
3.  Dale Hardy / USA
4.  Dongchen Dai / China
5.  Edgar Ramiro Jimenez Perez / Colombia
6.  Hossein Bazrafshan / Iran
7.  João Lages / Portugal
8.  Jorge Espinoza / Bolivia
9.  Mahdi Kazemzadeh / Iran
10.  Mohammadhassan Abdollahi Sofla / Iran
11.  Pedro Camacho / Portugal
12.  Rasika Diyagama / Sri Lanka
13.  Sai Suresh Nagaralu / India
14.  Stelios Ioannides / Cyprus

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