Jose Carlos Easter Marques

Jose Carlos Easter Marques is a Full Professor and Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Interaction with Society at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He holds a position in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and leads the UBIMedical initiative. His academic roles include Director of the C-MAST Center for Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, and he teaches courses in Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering.

Education:

• Aggregation in Mechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior (2017)
• PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior (2008)

Research Interests: Focuses on plasma actuators, magnetohydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and advanced propulsion systems. His work integrates experimental validation with numerical simulations to address challenges in aerospace engineering, energy systems, and renewable technologies. Recent projects include optimizing automotive painting processes using CFD and artificial neural networks (ANN), and developing plasma-based ice protection systems for aircraft.

Publications & Patents: Authored over 116 journal articles, 1 book chapter, and 4 books. Holds patents such as 'Plasma Actuators for Cycloidal Rotor Thrust Vectoring' and 'Smart System for Cycloidal Vertical Axis Wind Turbines'.

Awards & Grants: Recipient of the 2012 Pedagogical Merit Award. Led projects like 'GreenAuto: Green Innovation for the Automotive Industry' and contributed to the CLOUD Experiment at CERN.

Labs & Teams: Founder of ClusterDEM, a multiphysics flow research group specializing in HPC simulations and experimental facilities for aerospace propulsion, turbulent flows, and magnetoplasmadynamic systems.