Full name: António Casimiro Ferreira da Costa
Born: 21 November 1968
Citizenship: Portuguese
António Casimiro graduated and has a Master in Electrotechnic and Computers Engineering (1995), by the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST). He has a PhD in Informatics (2003), by the University of Lisboa. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics (DI) of the University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences, where he joined in 1996. Previously he was teaching at IST and was a researcher at INESC. He is now a member of the LASIGE research laboratory of the DI, where he co-leads one of the Navigators group research lines. In the last years he has been involved and contributed to several national and international projects, such as HIDENETS, CORTEX, CaberNet and TACID. He is currently interested in studying dependable solutions (architectures and middleware) for distributed embedded systems, focusing on real-time aspects and QoS adaptation. Other research interests include: fault tolerance, group and event-based communication, real-time and sensor networks, and SCADA systems. António Casimiro has more than 30 publications in the area of distributed, fault-tolerant and real-time systems. He is a member of the IEEE and of Ordem dos Engenheiros.