People

UNIDCOM operates with a Board of Directors chaired by the Scientific Coordinator, overseeing strategic project execution and financial management. The board includes the Executive Director, a Europeia ID representative, the Factory Coordinator, the IADE Press Coordinator, and UNIDCOM laboratory Coordinators.

On the scientific front, UNIDCOM maintains a Scientific Council comprising integrated researchers. Annually, the Scientific Council appoints a monitoring committee to map the projects in the clusters and propose adjustments whenever necessary.  Management support is provided by a Higher Technician and the Science Support Office of Universidade Europeia, incorporating Europeia ID technicians.

SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR

Maria Emília Capucho Duarte

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Hande Ayanoglu

RESEARCH MANAGERS

Alexandre Monteiro

External Advisory Board

The UNIDCOM External Advisory Board is composed of four distinguished researcher and scholars in Design:

Erik Stolterman 
Guy Julier
Jamie Brasset
Priscila Lena Farias

Integrated Members

Collaborators

Doctorate Researchers
Non-Doctorate Researchers
Non-Doctorate Researchers (Ph.D. Students at IADE)

Scholarship Fellows 

Visiting researchers

Gabriel Patrocínio

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Brazil (sabbatical leave)

Dates: 17 March to 6 April 2018

Lambert Rozema

Stenden University Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Dates: September to November 2017

 
Pos-Doc researchers

Ana Luísa Marques

IADE – Universidade Europeia

Title: “História, Teoria e Crítica do Design: territórios específicos e permeabilidades“
Starting date: November 2020

Rodrigo Antunes Morais

IADE – Universidade Europeia

Title: “Design & Publicidade - As implicações do design nos departamentos publicitários” 
Starting date: October 2020

Nuno Sá Leal

Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

Title: “Europe and the inclusive design institutions“
Starting date: September 2018

Amilton Arruda

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Title: “Estudo sobre aplicação das experiências em basic design (biônica e biomimética) nos cursos de Design no Brasil” (Bolsa CNpq)
Starting date: 1 July 2018

Cayetano García

Universidad de Extrenadura, Spain

Title: Evaluation of creative factors using an optohaptic drawing model
Dates: July to October 2018

Ana Maria Garcia Nolasco da Silva

Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal

Title: “Inovação, arte e design: arquipélagos criativos emergentes;  as influências nos processos criativos contemporâneos entre as ilhas macaronésias lusófonas,  África  e Portugal”(Grant FCT - SFRH/BPD/10839/2015)
Starting date: September 2015

Richard Perassi Luiz de Sousa

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Title: “A importância da hipermídia no projeto de museus de moda” (Grant from CNPq - 209573/2013).
Dates: September 2013 to February 2014

Hande Ayanoglu

IADE-U, Lisbon, Portugal

Title: "Hazard Perception of Household Packages”
Dates: March 2014 to September 2015

Lucy Carlinda da Rocha de Niemeyer

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Brazil

Title: “Inovação Tecnológica no Design de Produtos de Consumo Popular: Modos de morar e significação”
Dates: October 2014 to March 2015

Marília Matos Gonçalves

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Title: “O Ensino de Design na Universidade” (Grant CAPES)
Dates: February to July 2015

Luis Salomão Ribas Gomez

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Title: “Brands DNA and Fashion Branding” (Grant from CAPES)
Dates: 2009 -2010

 
PhD students in international mobility

Gökçen Damla Ak

Hacı Bayram Veli University

Thesis title: “Analysis of the relationship between experimental marketing and socio - cultural indicators in fashion films.”
Dates: February 2019 - July 2019

Merve Balkış

Hacı Bayram Veli University

Thesis title: (to be disclosed).
Dates: February 2019 - July 2019

Luiza Grazziotin Selau

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brazil

Thesis title: “Método projetual de design: proposta para auxiliar acadêmicos na etapa de problematização.”
Dates: November 2018 to June 2019

Alexandra Teixeira de Rosso Presser

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Thesis title: “Histórias em quadrinhos digitais com foco em dispositivos de tela pequena: diretrizes para otimização de criação e desenvolvimento”
Dates: August 2018 to August 2019

Patrícia Werner

PhD student at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil

Thesis title: O Papel da Produção Científica na Pós-graduação em Design no Brasil”
Dates: March to June 2018

Valéria Feijó Cassaroto

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

Thesis title: Place Brand Experience: A experiência de marca no contexto da gestão de marcas de lugares - Modelo de estruturação do processo”
Dates: October 2017 to January 2018

Pinar Arslan

Gazi University, Faculty of Art and Design, Turkey

Thesis title: Fabric Designs Development by Jacquard Weaving: Ottoman Sultans.
Dates: February to June 2017.

Lilian Navarro Moreno

PhD student at the Universidad de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain, Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corporal, Línea de investigación: Modelos y Metodologías de Dibujo para el Desarrollo Cognitivo: Aplicación en la Ideación y la Creatividad.

Thesis title: Creative Models based on Evolutionary Algorithms (Creative Computing)”.
Dates: October 2016 to July 2017

Angela Giambattista

PhD student at the Design and Innovation program, of the DicDEA Department, in SUN - Second University of Naples

Thesis title: Design for Care – Perceptual products for therapeutic wellbeing”
Dates: 22 June to 30 October 2015

Didem Kan Kilic

PhD student at the Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

Thesis title: “Non-visual aspects of spatial knowledge: Wayfinding behavior of visually impaired people in complex urban environments”
Dates: March to July 2015