António Cunha
Instituto Pedro Nunes
Contact by mailAntónio Lindo da Cunha has more than ten years of experience coordinating R&D projects and leading technology transfer processes between research organizations and business sector, for Ambient Assistive Living, Human Mobility Support, and Technology for Sustainability. He was involved in more than twenty R&D projects as principal researcher or work package leader, with a strong emphasis to create economic or social value to the organizations, especially for SMES. In the last years he was involved in several Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) projects, namely: Co-Living/AAL; CaMeLi/AAL; Cogniwin/AAL; and AAL4ALL/PT. António Cunha was co-creator of TICE.Healthy/PT concept (ecosystem of applications and ICT services for Health and Quality of Life), and now is member of the coordination board. He is author and member of several technology-based projects with sustainability focus (including the Social Economy), namely FarmReal/PT; InovWine/PT; and AgriSensAct/FP7. Still in the sustainability field, he was workpackage líder on N4C/FP7 project, and was researcher in Cybermove/FP5. He was co-founder, member of the board, and research director of the Critical Move S.A. a spin-off from IPN and Critical group (a company that had installed an outdoor people mover system in a large hospital campus). He has an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Porto and has a Master Degree in Innovation and Knowledge Management from Aveiro University. António Lindo da Cunha is the Executive Director of Laboratory of Automatics and Systems of Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), a technology transfer institution from Coimbra University. He is the IPN representative member in Smart Rural Living Lab (European Network of Living Labs element), member of the Ageing@Coimbra operational group (European Reference Site for Active and Healthy Ageing), and member of Engineering For Change group.