Danyela Rascon

Research Manager

Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI)

Coimbra, Portugal

Remote

Management and operationalization of Science and Technology activities

My organisation

Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI)

R&D Institution

Coimbra, Portugal

ADAI is a private, non-profit institution linked to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, which promotes research, development, training and service provision activities. ADAI structure is based on two Research and Development Areas, which constitute the core of ADAI's activity, namely: -Energy, Environment and Comfort; \-Forest Fires and Detonics. The identification of the existing core competencies in ADAI resulted in the creation of 4 Thematic Centres, with dedicated teams and with external recognition: -CEIF - Center for Forest Fire Studies; -CIE - Center for Industrial Ecology; -CSBE - Center for Sustainability of the Built Environment; -CED - Center for Energy and Detonics. ADAI develops its activity in the following infrastructures: -Laboratório de Aerodinâmica Industrial (LAI); -Laboratório de Estudos sobre Incêndios Florestais (LEIF); -Laboratório de Energética e Detónica (LEDAP).

About me

Danyela Rascon works as Research Manager at ADAI since 2021. She is in charge of the Management and operationalization of Science and Technology activities; Identification of opportunities for competitive funding; encouragement and support of the preparation of applications and consortium construction (international scope and/or inter-institutional cooperation); Dynamization of meetings within Researchers who are working in the areas of Energy and Detonics (CED); Forest Fires (CEIF), Industrial Ecology (CIE), and Sustainability of the Built Environment (CSBE); Promote the connection of researchers and teams, including support and advice for the implementation of interdisciplinary research and internationalization strategies.

In 2018, the University of Coimbra (UC) granted her, and she developed the project "Interdisciplinary Research, Communication, and Transfer in the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra." During the project's execution period (2018-2020), she served as a Science and Technology manager at the Energy for Sustainability (Efs) Initiative, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra. She was also a member of the Projects and Interdisciplinary Committee of the Postdocs@UC Initiative and a member of the European Network of Postdoctoral Associations. In 2017, she discussed her Ph.d. thesis, "Occupational and Safety Issues of Workers in Central Tower Solar Energy Facilities," which was unanimously approved by the jury with the highest score, Louvor e Distinção. The research project was developed within the framework of MIT Portugal and was funded by the Mexican government's CONACyT Foundation, which granted her a second award (2010-2012 for MSc; 2013-2017 for Phd). She, also, completed three secondments, which took place at the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (Spain) and the Solar Platform of Hermosillo (PSH) in Mexico. She collaborated with 11 collaborators in 14 scientific outputs. Furthermore, she was identified as the main author in 13 of them, including 2 theses, 1 report, 4 articles in scientific journals, 4 works in event proceedings, and 3 other involvements in conferences. Additionally, she has four years of work experience in Environmental risk consulting and project coordination. The projects involved analyzing phenomena derived from destructive agents (sanitary-ecological, chemical, hydrological, geographical, and social in origin) and defining preventive and mitigation measures.

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