About my research
I hold a degree in Environmental Engineering, a postgraduate degree in Economics, an MSc in Ecology, Management and Modelling of Marine Resources, and a double PhD in Environmental Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico) and Life and Earth Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Since 2007, I have been Assistant Professor in Environment and Energy at IST, University of Lisbon. At MARETEC, my research focuses on the biophysical foundations of metabolism in societies and organisms. I have contributed to both theoretical developments and applications of societal exergy analysis (SEA) at sectoral, national, and global scales, and to the development and application of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory.
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- Historical evolution of transport technologies
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- Global Transport Emissions
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- An aggregate price for energy services: Useful exergy as an intermediate flow in a two-sector model of the economy
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- Designing MEMME – a conceptual Material and Energy Metabolism Model for Economies
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- From formulae, via models to theories: Dynamic Energy Budget theory illustrates requirements
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- Energy Use and Emissions in Global Rail, 1840–2020
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- The Rise and Slowdown of Global Electricity Efficiency (1900–2017)
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- Techno-economic analysis of self-consumption schemes and energy communities in Italy and Portugal
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- Insights from the Evolution of Transport Technologies, 1800-2020: Energy Use, Transitions, and Efficiency
- The rise and stall of world electricity efficiency:1900–2017, results and insights for the renewables transition
- From Electrification to Decarbonization: Insights from Portugal's Experience (1960-2016)
- How the Shift from Human and Animal Labor to Machines Changed Agriculture Since 1800
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- Resource efficiency for UK cars from 1960 to 2015: From stocks and flows to service provision
- Impacts of ocean warming and acidification on the energy budget of three commercially important fish species
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- The Rise and Stall of World Electricity Efficiency:1900-2017, Results and Implication for the Renewables Transition
- Optimisation and economic feasibility of Battery Energy Storage Systems in electricity markets: The Iberian market case study
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- Driving factors of differences in primary energy intensities of 14 European countries
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- Resource use and economic development: an exergy perspective on energy and material flows and stocks from 1900 to 2010
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- Minimizing direct greenhouse gas emissions in livestock production: The need for a metabolic theory
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- The use of steel in the United Kingdom's transport sector: A stock–flow–service nexus case study
- Moving Toward a Strategy for Addressing Climate Displacement of Marine Resources: A Proof-of-Concept
- A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part I: bibliometric and conceptual mapping
- A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights
- The evolution of resource efficiency in the United Kingdom’s steel sector: An exergy approach
- Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Marine Pollution: An Overlooked Interaction in Coastal and Estuarine Areas
- Insights from Past Trends in Exergy Efficiency and Carbon Intensity of Electricity: Portugal, 1900–2014
- The Way Forward in Quantifying Extended Exergy Efficiency
- Useful Exergy Is Key in Obtaining Plausible Aggregate Production Functions and Recognizing the Role of Energy in Economic Growth: Portugal 1960–2009
- The Need for Robust, Consistent Methods in Societal Exergy Accounting
- A review of the use of exergy to evaluate the sustainability of fossil fuels and non-fuel mineral depletion
- Material Services with Both Eyes Wide Open
- Do the Different Exergy Accounting Methodologies Provide Consistent or Contradictory Results? A Case Study with the Portuguese Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Sector
- Exergy Replacement Cost of Fossil Fuels: Closing the Carbon Cycle
- The universality and the future prospects of physiological energetics
- Physics of metabolic organization
- Insights on Energy Transitions in Mexico from the Analysis of Useful Exergy 1971–2009
- How Much Detail Should We Use to Compute Societal Aggregated Exergy Efficiencies?
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- Structure and dynamics of useful work along the agriculture-industry-services transition: Portugal from 1856 to 2009
- Useful Work Transitions in Portugal, 1856–2009
- A new perspective on the growth pattern of the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) through DEB theory
- Decomposition of useful work intensity: The EU (European Union)-15 countries from 1960 to 2009
- DEB parameters estimation for Mytilus edulis
- Modelling feeding processes in bivalves: A mechanistic approach
- Life Engine - Creating Artificial Life for Scientific and Entertainment Purposes
- Stylized facts in microalgal growth: interpretation in a dynamic energy budget context
- Dynamic energy budget theory restores coherence in biology
- Comment on "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny"
- From food‐dependent statistics to metabolic parameters, a practical guide to the use of dynamic energy budget theory
- From empirical patterns to theory: a formal metabolic theory of life
- Thermodynamics of organisms in the context of dynamic energy budget theory
- Equilibrium econophysics: A unified formalism for neoclassical economics and equilibrium thermodynamics
- Is neoclassical microeconomics formally valid? An approach based on an analogy with equilibrium thermodynamics