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Dr. Daniel Simões Lopes has a degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Lisbon and, recently, graduated in computational engineering under the framework of the UT Austin/Portugal Program.
During his doctoral studies he formulated an efficient contact detection methodology for smooth convex surfaces based on analytical formulation of surface tangent vectors. In addition, his doctoral studies aimed at modeling anatomical structures with smooth convex contact surfaces, namely, synovial joints such as the shoulder, hip, and knee joints. He was a visiting scholar at the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory of the University of Texas at Austin where, under the guidance of Dr. Richard Neptune, focused his research on integrating detailed contact models and musculoskeletal modeling techniques to estimate joint loading during human gait.
Currently, he is a postdoc researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa where he carries research and development on contact detection methods for real-time applications, 3D sketching in mid-air, and interactive visualization of medical images using interactive surfaces. He was also a visiting scholar at INRIA – Lille where he contributed to the development of an application to interactively visualize and explore volume data in real-time. His main interests are contact detection, computational geometry, image processing, scientific visualization, computational anatomy and sketch-based modeling.