Vasco Alexandre Milne dos Santos

Vasco Alexandre Milne dos Santos serves as an Assistant Professor at IADE - Universidade Europeia in Lisbon, Portugal, teaching Design Production, Industrial and Environmental Design, 3D Design, and Production Technologies courses. He earned his PhD in Design from IADE Universidade Europeia in December 2018 and maintains active research through CoLab (UNIDCOM).

His educational background centers on doctoral studies completed in 2018 at IADE Universidade Europeia, building upon extensive professional design experience since the mid-1990s with firms like Modus Design and Hospiarte.

Research Interests:
Dr. dos Santos specializes in:

• Innovation and Creativity methodologies
• Modeling and Prototyping (traditional techniques and rapid prototyping via CNC/laser/FDM)
• Production Technologies and Materials science
• Design Representation across analog, digital, and hybrid media

His work examines how representational media shape creative processes, with applications in industrial design education and practice.

Publication Trends:
His recent scholarly output reveals consistent focus on design representation's cognitive dimensions. Key themes include comparative analysis of analog vs. digital tools in ideation, reflective potential of hybrid modeling, and inter-relational dynamics of physical prototypes. This research bridges theoretical design frameworks with hands-on prototyping techniques across educational and industrial contexts.

Research Leadership:
As former coordinator of 3DLAB IADE (2009-2017) and current CoLab researcher, he directs projects connecting design processes with advanced manufacturing technologies. His industry collaborations span healthcare equipment (Hospiarte), sustainable furniture (Nestlé), and interactive installations (EDP/BOLD project), demonstrating applied impact of his representation-focused research.