JOÃO BIGOTTE | CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Name JOÃO Miguel Fonseca BIGOTTE E-­‐mail [email protected] Office SA 2.11 Phone (+351) 239 797 110 Address Department of Civil Engineering Rua Luis Reis Santos -­‐ Polo II UC 3030 -­‐ 788 Coimbra (Portugal) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Spatial Planning and Transportation February 2009 University of Coimbra, Portugal Visiting scholar: University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts, USA) Graduation in Civil Engineering (“Licenciatura”) July 2003 University of Coimbra, Portugal TRAINING Workshop on Business Model Generation Given by Alexander Osterwalder @ TECNET 2014 (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal) Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators Babson College (Massachusetts, USA) | January 2013 Project Management Porto Business School (Porto, Portugal) | December 2012 Technology-­‐based entrepreneurship course IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes (Coimbra, Portugal) | October 2004 – May 2005 WORK EXPERIENCE Managing Director September 2013 – December 2014 Coimbra iParque (Science and Technology Park | www.coimbraiparque.pt) Main activities: general management, marketing & business development. Innovation Consultant June 2012 – August 2013 Instituto Pedro Nunes (best science-­‐based incubator in the world 2010 | www.ipn.pt) Main activities: technology transfer, business model generation, definition of market-­‐entry strategy, startup mentoring. 1 / 4 JOÃO BIGOTTE | CURRICULUM VITAE Managing Director December 2010 – March 2012 Creative Wings SGPS, SA (Business Angels Group | www.creativewings.pt) Main activities: general management, project evaluation and screening. Director of Innovation and New Business Development April 2009 – March 2012 Grupo Catarino (Corporate group with businesses in construction, real estate, interior design, trading and venture capital | www.grupo-­‐catarino.pt) Main activities: innovation management, internationalization, new business development. ACADEMIC POSITIONS Researcher January 2014 – present time CITTA (Joint research center for territory, transportation and environment of the University of Porto and the University of Coimbra | http://citta.fe.up.pt) Main activities: research. Invited Professor (“Professor Auxiliar Convidado”) February 2013 – August 2013 Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra | www.uc.pt/fctuc/dec) Main activities: teaching (Urban Project, Integrated Master Program in Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra), research, thesis supervision. Researcher September 2010 – December 2014 CIEC (Former research center for civil engineering of the University of Coimbra) Main activities: research, thesis supervision. Ph.D. Candidate September 2004 – February 2009 Spatial Planning and Transportation, Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal SFHD/BD/18216/2004, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese science funding agency | www.fct.pt) Main activities: research. Researcher October 2003 – September 2004 POCTI/AUR/32599/2000, “Public facility location and spatial development planning: Decision-­‐aid models”, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese science funding agency | www.fct.pt) Main activities: research. Junior researcher (“monitor”) March 2002 – February 2003 Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra | www.uc.pt/fctuc/dec) Main activities: support Professor’s research. 2 / 4 JOÃO BIGOTTE | CURRICULUM VITAE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ACTIVITIES Mentor @ INEO Start Startup acceleration program | http://start.ineo.pt/ Mentor @ 3 Day Startup Entrepreneurship education program focusing on learning by doing | http://coimbra.3daystartup.org/ President of the jury @ Prémio Ramos Catarino Inovação Award that distinguishes value creation propositions based on R&D results. The theme of the 2011-­‐12 edition of the award was “Energy independence in buildings”| www.ramoscatarino.pt Member of the jury @ MIT-­‐Portugal Green Campus Challenge Award for the best energy efficiency plans, made by students and professors, for the Universities’ Campus where they study and work | www.greencampusportugal.info Founder @ Choose Coimbra Web portal about the Coimbra innovation ecosystem | www.choosecoimbra.pt Author @ INEO blog Web portal about innovation | www.ineo.pt RESEARCH ACTIONS / PROJECTS Team member, working group no. 1, COST Action C27 -­‐ Sustainable Development Policies for Minor Deprived Urban Communities, 2006-­‐2008 (costc27.altervista.org). Short-­‐term scientific mission within COST Action C27, University of Brescia, Italy, December 2006. Team member, Estudo sobre a Revisão do Mapa Judiciário de Portugal (Study on the Revision of the Judiciary Map of Portugal), Ministry of Justice, 2006. Team member, Carta Educativa do Município de Miranda do Corvo (Educational Charter for the Municipality of Miranda do Corvo), Miranda do Corvo City Council, 2004. Team member, Estudo sobre a Evolução dos Equipamentos de Saúde da Região do Algarve no Período 2004-­‐2013 (Study on the Evolution of Health Care Facilities in the Algarve Region during the Period 2004-­‐2013), CISED Consultores, 2003. SUPERVISION OF THESIS Ricardo Leite (2013), “Dinâmicas Populacionais e Hierarquia Urbana: Censos 2011”, M.Sc thesis (co-­‐
supervisor: Prof. António Antunes, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal). Abel Mourão (2011), “Sistema de Classificação de Acessibilidade de Edifícios Residenciais”, M.Sc thesis (co-­‐supervisor: Prof. Bruno Santos, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal). PUBLICATIONS Articles in peer-­‐reviewed journals Bigotte, J.F., Antunes, A.P., Krass, D., and Berman, O., (2014), “The relationship between population dynamics and urban hierarchy: Evidence from Portugal”, International Regional Science Review, 37(2), 149-­‐171. Bigotte, J.F., Krass, D., Antunes, A., and Berman, O., (2010), “Integrated modelling of urban hierarchy and transportation network planning”, Transportation Research Part A, 44(7), 506-­‐522. 3 / 4 JOÃO BIGOTTE | CURRICULUM VITAE Antunes, A., Berman, O., Bigotte, J.F., and Krass, D. (2009), “A location model for urban hierarchy planning with population dynamics”, Environment and Planning A, 41(4), 996-­‐1016. Bigotte, J.F., and Antunes, A. (2007), “Social infrastructure planning: A location model and solution methods”, Computer-­‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 22(8), 570-­‐583. Book chapters Bigotte, J., Antunes, A., (2005) “Desenvolvimento de um método heurístico para um tipo de problema frequente em planeamento de equipamentos colectivos”, in A. Silva, L. Souza and J. Mendes (Eds.), Planejamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável – Desenvolvimentos recentes no Brasil e em Portugal, Ministério das Cidades, Brasil, 39-­‐53. CONFERENCES Presentations 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA 2008), August 27-­‐31, 2008, Liverpool, UK; Title of presentation: “A facility location model for urban hierarchy planning”. Eleventh International Symposium on Locational Decisions (ISOLDE XI), June 26 – July 1, 2008, Santa Barbara, California, USA; Title of presentation: “Integrated urban hierarchy and transportation network planning”. 5th International Conference on Decision-­‐Making in Urban & Civil Engineering (DMUCE 5), June 14-­‐16, 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Title of presentation: “A facility location model for elastic, size-­‐
attracted, gravity-­‐type demand”. The Ninth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 05), June 29 – July 1, 2005, London, UK; Title of presentation: “Comprehensive public facility location modeling”. Tenth International Symposium on Locational Decisions (ISOLDE X), June 2-­‐8, 2005, Sevilla-­‐Islantilla, Spain; Title of presentation: “On the relationship between demographic dynamics and urban hierarchies: Empirical evidence from Portugal”. Organizing committee COST Action C27, Workshop on Sustainable Development Policies for Minor Deprived Urban Communities, April 23-­‐24, 2007, Évora, Portugal. 4th International Conference on Decision-­‐Making in Urban & Civil Engineering (DMUCE 4), October 28-­‐
30, 2004, Porto, Portugal. LANGUAGES Portuguese: Native speaker English: Fluent (Certificate in Advanced English, University of Cambridge, UK, 12.02.2007) Spanish: Good working knowledge 4 / 4