SHORT BIOGRAPHY

José Carlos Miranda Góis was born in 1962 in Soure, Portugal.

He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra in 1986, becoming lecturer and after assistant of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Received PhD in Thermodynamics from University of Coimbra in 1996, becoming Auxiliary Professor at the same Engineering Department.

Serving in various positions in the scientific and pedagogical committees in Mechanical Engineering Department.

Personal research in energetic materials, focusing in heterogeneous explosives tests characterization and hotspots mechanisms of rejuvenation of detonation and thermal decomposition. Author and co-author in several papers in Scientific Journals, and in the APS Conferences - Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, USA; ICT Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany; International Pyrotechnics Seminar, USA; International Detonation Symposium, USA.

Researcher in several National and European Investigation & Development projects in Energetic Materials, higher part of them supported by the Portuguese Minister of Defence.

Since 1998 is President of the Portuguese Society of Studies and Engineering of Explosives (AP3E). At this position has been the responsibility of the Project nominated “Pyrotechnic: low hazard high security”, conducted for the formation of pyrotechnic workers in Portugal.