José Firmino Aguilar Madeira

Coordinator Professor at ADM/ISEL/IPL | Integrated Researcher at IDMEC/IST/ULisboa | Optimization & Decision Sciences

Organisation of Scientific Meetings (since 2010)

  1. Organizing Committee, EngOpt 2026 — 8th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2026. [Organization]
    Keywords: engineering optimization, derivative-free optimization, multi-objective optimization, Decision Sciences
  2. Conference Chair, ISASET 2024 — International Summit on Applied Science, Engineering and Technology, Florence, Italy, March 2024. President of the Organising Committee.
    Keywords: applied science, engineering optimization, international conference, Decision Sciences
  3. International Advisory Board, SEMC 2022 — The Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2022.
    Keywords: structural engineering, computational mechanics, optimization
  4. Organizing Committee, MECHCOMP7 — 7th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Porto, Portugal, September 2021.
    Keywords: composite mechanics, structural optimization, multi-objective optimization
  5. Organizing Committee, MECHCOMP5 — 5th International Conference on Mechanics of Composites, Lisboa, Portugal, July 2019.
    Keywords: composite structures, optimization, structural design
  6. Organizing Committee, DeMEASS 2018 — 9th International Conference on Design, Modelling and Experiments of Advanced Structures and Systems, Sesimbra, Portugal, September–October 2018.
    Keywords: advanced structures, design optimization, experimental methods
  7. Organizing Committee, EngOpt 2018 — 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2018.
    Keywords: engineering optimization, derivative-free optimization, Decision Sciences
  8. Organizing Committee, EngOpt 2016 — 5th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, June 2016.
    Keywords: engineering optimization, multi-objective optimization, Decision Sciences
  9. Executive Committee, ICCST/10 — International Conference on Composite Science and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2015.
    Keywords: composite science, materials optimization
  10. Executive Committee, EngOpt 2014 — International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2014.
    Keywords: engineering optimization, structural optimization, Decision Sciences
  11. Organizing Committee, EngOpt 2010 — International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal, 2010.
    Keywords: engineering optimization, computational methods

Organising Special Sessions & Mini-Symposia at International Conferences (since 2016)

  1. Mini-Symposium Co-organiser, "Advances in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization", ECCOMAS 2024, Lisboa, Portugal, June 2024. Co-organised with A. Araujo (IDMEC/IST/ULisboa).
    Keywords: structural optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, ECCOMAS, Decision Sciences
  2. Thematic Session Organiser, "C-M2: Composite Structures, Laminated Structures, Sandwich Structures", SEMC 2019 — 7th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2019.
    Keywords: composite structures, sandwich structures, structural optimization
  3. Mini-Symposium Co-organiser, "Challenges in Derivative-free Optimization Methods for Engineering Optimization", EngOpt 2018 — 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2018.
    Keywords: derivative-free optimization, engineering optimization, DMS, GLODS, Decision Sciences
  4. Thematic Session Organiser, "1402: Recent Developments in Structural Optimization", WCCM 2018 — 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics, New York, USA, July 2018.
    Keywords: structural optimization, computational mechanics, multi-objective optimization
  5. Thematic Session Organiser, "ST30: Recent developments in structural optimization", CMN 2017 — Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Valencia, Spain, June 2017.
    Keywords: structural optimization, numerical methods, derivative-free optimization
  6. Thematic Session Organiser, "Modelling and Optimization of Composite Structures", SEMC 2016, Cape Town, South Africa, 2016.
    Keywords: composite structures, multi-objective optimization, structural design
  7. Thematic Session Organiser, "Optimization of composite structures", EngOpt 2016 — 5th International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Iguassu Falls, Brazil, June 2016.
    Keywords: composite optimization, engineering optimization, Decision Sciences
  8. Thematic Session Organiser, "Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization", ECCOMAS 2016 — VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Crete, Greece, 2016.
    Keywords: structural optimization, multidisciplinary optimization, ECCOMAS, computational methods