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One Year After the Iberian Blackout: INESC-ID researchers contribute to Portugal’s national electricity system report
One year after the Iberian blackout of 28 April, 2025, the Technical Advisory Group (GAT) created by Portugal's Minister for Environment and Energy has published its final report. Among the ten specialists and academics who contributed to its conclusions are Pedro Carvalho and Jorge Sousa, INESC-ID researchers and Professors at Instituto Superior Técnico.
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Smart charging in the Azores: EV4EU presents V2X results from Portuguese demonstrator
Around 47% of new vehicles acquired in the Azores last year are electric, with an estimated 6000 electric vehicles (EVs) already used across the archipelago. With these promising numbers, the INESC-ID led EV4EU project (“Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe”), held the final event of the Portuguese demonstrator at the Laboratório Regional de Engenharia Civil (LREC) in São Miguel. Under the theme “EV4EU: From V2X Innovation to Implementation in Europe’s Energy System”, it was an opportunity to present results and discuss the future of electric mobility and integration of EVs in energy systems with key experts.
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No longer invisible: PiCaSSo brings pediatric palliative care data to Portugal’s hospitals
In Portugal, 7,828 children require palliative care. Their clinical data still lives in Excel spreadsheets, scattered across doctors and hospitals. Maria João Palaré, a specialist at Hospital de Santa Maria, decided it was time to change that.
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INESC-ID Distinguished Lectures return with Stanford’s Professor Mark Horowitz
The INESC-ID Distinguished Lectures have made an eagerly-awaited comeback, with the first session, on 23 March, featuring Professor Mark Horowitz from Stanford University, recognised as one of the leading scholars of his generation in integrated circuits and systems design. His research on high-speed CMOS data link interfaces, particularly for memory connections to high-performance computing systems, had a lasting impact on how the electronics industry approaches I/O design.
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1st PhD Symposium bringing INESC-ID, FH Münster and Fraunhofer SIT together
Last week, from 11 to 13 March, the auditorium of INESC-ID was the stage for the first PhD Symposium between INESC-ID, Fachhochschule Münster (FH Münster) and Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT).
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Big steps towards a smaller footprint: INESC-ID contributes to innovative carbon-management platform
Environmental requirements and regulations have been increasing in an effort to address the climate crisis, one of society’s main concerns in recent years. These goals, however urgent, can be challenging to meet.
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INESC-ID Awards 2025: celebrating research excellence and the people who make it
Closing the year, the INESC-ID Awards 2025 brought together researchers, students and staff to recognise three outstanding contributions to the institute’s scientific life and impact.
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INESC-ID researchers develop AI model inspired by human vision
From unlocking our phones with facial recognition to self-driving cars, AI-based computer vision is increasingly part of the technologies we use. Yet there is still much to learn from how we see the world.
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More than a gut-feeling: using AI to analyse the gut microbiome and its impact on menopause
There are many places that provide a home for these microscopic communities we call the “microbiome”. One such location is none other than the human gut, where the microorganisms play a crucial role in a range of processes such as metabolism, immunity and even behaviour. The AGEWISE: Unravelling the gut-hormone axis in Women's Aging, project awarded the 2024 Portugal grant from the Biocodex Foundation and led by Ana Santos Almeida at GIMM-CARE, brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from GIMM, INESC-ID, and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon to analyse the impact of the microbiome in one specific life stage: menopause.
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