Simão Soares

Current
Past
  • Junior Researcher at Center for Microbial Biotechnology
  • Junior Researcher at Universidade do Minho
  • Software & Web Developer (Self-employed)
Education
  • Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
  • Universidade do Minho
  • Universidade do Minho
Connections
91 connections
Industry
Biotechnology
Websites

Simão Soares’s Summary

Software Engineering and Design
Web Development

Soft Skills: responsibility, sociability, self-management, integrity

Interpersonal Skills: leadership, participates as a member of the team, works with cultural diversity, conflict management

Simão Soares’s Specialties:

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Entrepreneurship

GNU/Linux Services Administration
C/C++, Java, Haskell, Prolog
HTML, PHP, MySQL

Systems Analysis, Management, Industrial SWOT Analysis

Events planning and organization


Simão Soares’s Experience

  • Researcher

    Universidade do Minho

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    August 2009Present (4 months)

    Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering (IBB), Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB)

  • Junior Researcher

    Center for Microbial Biotechnology

    (Research industry)

    November 2008April 2009 (6 months)

    CMB / Department of Systems Biology / Technical University of Denmark

  • Junior Researcher

    Universidade do Minho

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    November 2007October 2008 (1 year )

    Algoritmi R&D Centre, Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho
    Scientific Initiation Grant

  • Software & Web Developer

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    20042007 (3 years )

    Software development using C/C++ and VB6
    Web development using HTML, PHP/MySQL, AJAX and Drupal CMS


Simão Soares’s Education

  • Danmarks Tekniske Universitet

    MSc Thesis , Bioinformatics, Systems Biology , 20082009

    Thesis: "Development of computational tools for integrating ‘omics’ data with bio-molecular interaction networkss"

  • Universidade do Minho

    Bioinformatics MSc , Bioinformatics, Systems Biology , 20072009

    At the moment working on MSc Thesis at DTU

    MSc Project: "Optimization of mutants in silico with integration of regulatory information"

    2008 – AAUM's Department of Recreational Activities - Director (Braga),
    “Associação Académica da Universidade do Minho” is the University of Minho Students' Union [www.aaum.pt]

    2007/2008 – Vice-President of the Directive Board of the UMinho's Computer Science and Systems Engineering Students Center (CeSIUM) [cesium.di.uminho.pt]

    IBM DB2 Student Ambassador [cesium.di.uminho.pt/db2]

    Activities and Societies:
    CeSIUM, AAUM
  • Universidade do Minho

    Informatics Engineering BSc , Informatics, Math, Economics, Systems Analysis , 20042007

    Concluded

    2006, 2007 – Colaborator at AAUM (“Associação Académica da Universidade do Minho” ); and in the Erasmus Student Network (UMinho's section)

    2006-2007 – President of the General Assembly of the UMinho's Computer Science and Systems Engineering Students Center (CeSIUM)

    2007 – Volunteer for the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS07)

    Activities and Societies:
    CeSIUM, AAUM

Additional Information

Simão Soares’s Websites:

Simão Soares’s Interests:

Systems Analysis, Informatics, IT, Biotech, Economics and Management, Open-Source and Free Software.

Simão Soares’s Groups:

AAUM - Associação Académica da Universidade do Minho,
GNU/Linux Portugal: GNU/Linux in Portuguese for Portugueses (Community)

  •    Portuguese Entrepreneurship Network
  •    Universidade do Minho - UM
  •    IBM DB2 Student Ambassador
  •    CeSIUM
  •    Computational Biology
  •    The Star Tracker
  •    Bioinformatics geeks
  •    Bioinformatics Computing
  •    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
  •    Systems Biology
  •    LESI
  •    XML Databases
  •    SBML
  •    4th International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Simão Soares’s Honors:

2004 - 3rd place, Robotics Simulation Contest (Highschool class) - “Cyber-Rato 2004” at Ancorensis, Vila Praia de Âncora, Portugal, with the team “Serafim Saudade”

2004 - 4th place, “Concurso InterEscolas de Programação da Universidade de Coimbra (University of Coimbra Inter - High schools Programming Contest) with the team “SerafimSaudade”, Coimbra, Portugal

2003 - 1st place, University of Coimbra Inter – High schools Tournament (“Torneio Inter-Escolas de Programação da Universidade de Coimbra”) with the team Serafim Saudade, Coimbra, Portugal

2002, 2003 – Participation in the national final rounds, on the Nacional Infomartics Olimpics, Lisbon, Portugal

2001 – 1st place, Contest of Image and Sound on the NetDays 2001, Portugal

2000 – Participation in the project “Portugal by their youth” (Portugal (d)escrito pelos seus jovens), with the website “Vale de Cambra: do Passado ao Futuro”, selected to be present on Expo NetSchool2000, at Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany.


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