Simão Soares

Current

• Researcher at Universidade do Minho

Past

• Junior Researcher at Center for Microbial Biotechnology
• Junior Researcher at Universidade do Minho
• Software & Web Developer (Self-employed)

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Education

• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
• Universidade do Minho
• Universidade do Minho

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Recommended

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Connections

91 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

• Founder of the GNU/Linux PT
• My Website
• My Blog

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 2009 — Present (4 months)

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

• Junior Researcher

  Center for Microbial Biotechnology

  (Research industry)

  November 2008 — April 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 2007 — October 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)

  2004 — 2007 (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 , 2008 — 2009

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

• Universidade do Minho

  Bioinformatics MSc , Bioinformatics, Systems Biology , 2007 — 2009

  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 , 2004 — 2007

  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:

• Founder of the GNU/Linux PT
• My Website
• My Blog

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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