Short Bio

João Lourenço is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the NOVA School of Science and Technology of NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCT) and Co-Director of the Institute for the Development of New Technologies (UNINOVA). He received his Ph.D. from NOVA University Lisbon in 2004 with a thesis on debugging of distributed programs.  He is a founding member of the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS) and his primary research interests include in-memory data management for parallel and large-scale computing systems, testing and debugging of concurrent programs, and edge/fog computing. He is a member of the advisory board and steering committees of several International Conferences and Research Networks. He is co-author of more than 50 articles/papers and received a Distinguished Paper Award in Euro-Par 2012 and the Best Paper Award in HVC 2012. He was a visiting researcher at IBM Research Laboratory at Haifa, IL, in 2011; at the University of S. Paulo (at S. Carlos), BR, in 2014; and at the University of Brno, CZ, in 2015. He is a regular contributerr to the LaTeX community and the author of the popular NOVAthesis LaTeX thesis template.

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NOVAthesis LaTeX template

Did you get here looking for the NOVAthesis LaTeX template? Just download it from the github repository or use the template in Overleaf.

You may also visit my blog (at https://novathesis.blogspot.pt) on Technical and Scientific Communication, including tips and tricks for LaTeX and the NOVAthesis template.

Other LaTeX contrributions

Package name Description Repo CTAN 
novathesis

A LaTeX template for academic monographs (e.g., dissertations and thesis). This template serves both beginners and proficient LaTeX users.

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coloredtheorem

A colourful boxed theorem environment.

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stocksize

LateX package that allows changing the paper (stock) size in thhe middle of the document.

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biblatex-cse

A BibLaTeX style that implements the bibliography style of the
Council of Science Editors (CSE) for BibLaTeX.

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novafctletterhead
 Letterhead paper for the NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT-NOVA) √ 
uninovaletterhead
 Letterhead paper for the Instiute for the Development of New Technologies (UNINOVA). √