António José Vilela Pontes

Associate Professor, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho.
Director of the Polymer Engineering Department from 2011 to 2013.
Website: www.dep.uminho.pt
Deputy Director of the Polymers and Composite Institute between 2013 and 2016.
Website: www.ipc.uminho.pt
In the last 20 years, he has coordinated more than 40 projects in the context of R&DT+I of University-Industry collaboration.
Since 2012, he has been the Coordinator of the Bosch-UMinho partnership, currently in the 3rd phase of the partnership.
Website: www.innovativecarhmi.com
Represents the University of Minho in the Association for Specific Business Opportunities – OPEN, since October 2008.
Website: www.open.pt
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Pool-Net – Portuguese Tooling Network association, within the scope of the “Engineering and Tooling” Competitiveness and Technology Hub, since October 2008.
Website: www.toolingportugal.com
Vice-president of the Polymer Engineering Innovation Hub (PIEP), since 2013.
Website: www.piep.pt
Co-founder and CEO of DONELab – Laboratory for advanced manufacturing of products and tools.
Website: www.donelab.uminho.pt
Contacts
E.mail: pontes@dep.uminho.pt
Phone: 934504244

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