A. P. G. Castro currently combines research and lecturing duties, being Resarch Fellow in Biomechanics at IDMEC (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa) and Lecturer at Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal).
André's main research interests are Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering.
Overview:
September 2004 – July 2009 | MEng in Biomedical Engineering at Universidade do Minho (Portugal), with Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) |
October 2009 | Awarded with a 4 years PhD Grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal) |
January 2010 – December 2013 | PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Universidade do Minho, with Universidade de Aveiro and Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) |
January 2010 – February 2011 | Post-Graduation in Management of Health Institutions, at CESPU Formação (Portugal) |
September 2013 – December 2013 | Invited Lecturer at School of Health Technologies, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal) |
January 2014 – August 2014 | Research Assistant at Universidade do Minho (Portugal),Department of Mechanical Engineering and Life and Health Sciences Institute |
September 2014 – October 2017 | Research Associate at the INSIGNEO Institute for in Silico Medicine, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) |
June 2016 – June 2017 | Board Member of the Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the United Kingdom |
October 2017 – August 2022 | Invited Lecturer at Universidade Atlântica (Portugal) |
December 2017 – present | Research Fellow at Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) |
October 2018 – present | Lecturer at Setubal School of Technology, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (Portugal) |
May 2023 – present | Vice-president of Sociedade Portuguesa de Biomecânica |