People
The most important part of any institution is the people who make it up.
Executive Director
Albino António Bento
CEO
Albino António Bento has a BSc in Agricultural Engineering from UTAD, with a MSc in Integrated Protection from ISA/UTL, and a PhD in Agrarian Sciences – Agricultural Sciences from UTAD. He has an Aggregated Degree in Agronomic Engineering from ISA/UTL.
He is a Principal Coordinating Professor at the School of Agriculture of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), since August 2012, President of the National Competence Centre for Dried Fruits (CNCFS) and a Researcher at the Mountain Research Center – CIMO.
Between 2005 and 2017, he assumed the role of President/Director of IPB’s School of Agriculture.
Team
Operations Direction
Bio-based Products and Processes
Mountain Environment and Ecosystem Management
Heritage, Tourism and Wellness
Intelligent Technologies
Khadija Sabiri holds a PhD in Cloud Computing in Computer Science from the University of Hassan 2 (Morocco) and was awarded a PhD by the Universidade Nova De Lisboa in Portugal. She is the scientific technical director in the “Smart Technologies” department of the Collaborative Laboratory – Research Mountains (MORE) Portugal, participating in several projects funded by the European Union, namely Connected Health, AICEBLOCK and NewGen. Khadija Sabiri, PhD has several certifications from the DLT Talents program powered by Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, IoT and CCNA from CISCO, Cloud Application Developer Master Award from IBM. Khadija Sabiri has more than 32 articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings. Her main research topics focus on the development of Blockchain architectures and cloud computing. They also focus on the use of emerging technologies applied to various areas of activity, namely industry, health and agriculture. She is also a guest speaker at various international conferences and events such as Google Developer Lisbon. She is also a Program Committee Member and Organizing Committee Member at international conferences.
Côa Valley and Inland Center Region Office
