Tiago H. Moreira de Oliveira, currently a PhD student in Information Management & GIS at NOVA IMS (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), with a work entitled “The Emotion-Aware City: Using Ambient Geographic Information (AGI) in order to understand Emotion & Stress within Smart Cities”. He has also a master’s degree in Land Management and Urban Planning, and a degree in Geography and Territorial Planning.

After the work experience at the Centre of Geographical Studies and Santa Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon, since, 2010, became the Executive Coordinator for R&D national and international Projects at NOVA IMS (LabNT), participating and leading about 50 projects related with GIS & Science.

His role as executive coordinator of this research department led him to participate in research and innovation projects that, for example, promote the conception, development and implementation of GIS for management, integration and analysis. His knowledge and expertise in GIS and Project Management allowed him to coordinate Projects; plan and assign tasks to the project’s team; prepare new proposals; write scientific articles, and contribute in GIS consulting areas.

In the same institution plays the role of Coordinator in the GIS & Science master course (www.novaims.unl.pt/unigis), and as a member of the UNIGIS International Network, which is associated to this master course. Since he has expertise in e-learning Platforms, he’s a relevant asset in the programming of the course and its schedule; the design, maintenance and implementation of the e-learning Platform, and also by monitoring and following the students during the course.

Since 2010 he became an assistant in teaching the courses of Geographic Information Systems and Science in NOVA IMS and FCT-UNL, both faculties from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

He’s also an active participant on scientific events and as an author, by publishing about 45 papers.

Geographic Information Systems and Science; Geographic Information Systems; WebGIS; Social Media; Sentiment Analysis; Smart Cities; Public Participation; Volunterred Geographic Information; GI Education; Distance Learning (e-learning); Geographic User Generated Content (gUGC); Spatial Decision Support Systems; Information Infrastructures; Spatial Analysis; Project Management.