e-mail:
daniel.s.lopes(-at-)tecnico.ulisboa.pt
office:
Interactive Technologies Institute
Hub Criativo do Beato, Factory Lisbon
Rua da Manutenção 71, Edifício F, S05
1900-500 Lisboa
university:
Departamento de Engenharia Informática,
Instituto Superior Técnico,
Universidade de Lisboa,
Av. Rovisco Pais 1,
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Daniel Simões Lopes is a tenured Assistant Professor of the
Computer Science & Engineering at Técnico Lisboa and Integrated Researcher at
ITI/LARSyS. He is also a Research Collaborator at
INESC ID. He holds a degree in biomedical engineering from the
University of Lisbon and graduated in computational engineering under the framework of the
UT Austin|Portugal Program. At the educational level, he teaches Computer Graphics (undergraduate) and Virtual Reality (graduate) courses. Currently he co-supervises 5 PhD students and has graduated 35+ master students. At ITI/LARSyS, he directs the Lab of xReality, which investigates novel XR interfaces with applications in 3D content creation and medical scenarios, as well as improved Computer Graphics techniques to better interact in the Metaverse. He authored 50+ scientific papers at top venues. He also participated in 9 national research projects, being the principal investigator in 2 of them. He is member of the
ACM. He wears a few hats but his main research interests are collision detection, motion processing, extended reality, and medical interfaces. In his free time, Daniel is an organic horticulturist, he cooks, does VR fitness, reads comics and math books, sketeches and jots ideas, hangs out with his family and friends.
During his doctoral studies he formulated an efficient contact detection methodology for smooth convex surfaces based on an analytical formulation of surface tangent vectors. As a visiting scholar at the
Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory of the University of Texas at Austin, he focused his research on integrating detailed contact models and musculoskeletal modeling techniques to estimate joint loading during human gait. After graduating, he was a postdoc at
INESC-ID Lisboa during four years of productive research. 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.