Renato Mendes

Renato Mendes is currently a post-doctoral researcher of a joint project between CIIMAR in the University of Porto and CESAM in the University of Aveiro. His research interests focus mostly on coastal oceanography, using multi-platform data, such as observations, remote sensing, and numerical models. Recently, his studies have addressed the use of networked autonomous vehicle systems (AUVs and UAVs) to detect, track and survey coastal fronts in a coordinated and collaborative manner. Renato Mendes received his PhD from the University of Aveiro in 2016 in Physical Oceanography and completed a Masters in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography in 2010 at the same institution in Portugal. During this period, he participated in exchange research programs in oceanography from Russian, Brazilian, and Spanish universities. He has published 17 articles in journals and in his professional activities he has interacted with 91 collaborator(s), having also co-authored scientific papers.