In a time of increasing pressure on inland and marine water resources, continuous acquisition of knowledge of these systems’ dynamics is fundamental.
HIDROMOD creates and provides practical solutions, based on numeric modelling and Information Technologies. Many clients have benefitted from our proven work in various areas of the hydrological cycle, covering different sectors. We provide skills and technical tools with the ability to reduce implementation and operational costs.
Since 1992, we have continuously invested in research and training activities, either by participating in European scientific projects or through our connections with universities.
Presently, with a background of around 500 projects, alongside a quality management system certified by the ISO 9001 standard, we offer a combination of engineering experience, scientific knowledge and capacity for technological implementation.
Our goal is to serve our clients by continuously improving products and services, using highly qualified human resources, technological innovation and teamwork. This allows us to create projects according to clients’ requirements and needs, using the most suitable techniques to solve their problems.
Team
José Chambel Leitão
Adélio Silva
Adélio Silva is Hidromod’s manager, contributing to the scientific and strategic leadership for the company. He has a Civil Engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a PhD in coastal modelling from the same institution. Over the last 30 years he has gathered a grounded experience in developing and applying models to a wide range of problems, such as wave generation and propagation, hydrodynamics, sediment transport and water quality issues. Throughout all these years he also kept a strong link with R&D activities through active participation in several EU and national R&D projects.
Paulo Leitão
Civil engineering Degree, M.Sc. In Ecology, Management and modelling the Marine Environment and a PhD in Environmental Engineering. One of the main developers of MOHID numerical system open source project. With more than 20 years of experience in developing, implementing and validating numerical model focus in transport of momentum and mass in aquatic systems.
Pedro Galvão
Environmental engineering degree, MSc In Ecology, Management and modelling the Marine Environment and certified by Microsoft as Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. Started Hidromod’s IT department in 2006. Currently leads Hidromod’s IT department and the development of it’s flagship product AquaSafe used to manage all Hidromod operational services.
Pedro Chambel Leitão
Agricultural Engineer, Msc in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Environmental Engineering. In my 20-year professional experience, I have specialized in two specific areas, farm scale and watershed scale modelling. I have participated in many research and engineering projects. In addition to my education in agriculture, my research in “Modelling of trophic processes in artificial reservoirs and of respective basin loads”, in the “Development of techniques to improve water irrigation productivity” or in the “Integrated Phosphorous Management for controlling eutrophication in watersheds” gave me a strong background to assess existing agricultural production and specific water related (rain fed and irrigated) constraints and potential for improvement. I’m also experienced in implementing operational systems for water management on the farm and watershed scale.
Hélio Santos
Computer Science degree at University of Beira Interior. During the degree he belonged to HULTIG research group at the same institution. He has obtained MCSD (“Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: Web Applications”) certificate recognized by Microsoft for demonstrating his expertise at implementing modern web apps.
He has professional experience in several areas such as e-commerce, insurance, engineering and modeling. Specialist in Microsoft technologies like C #, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, WPF, WCF, SQL Server and other web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, AngularJS, ExtJS …
In Hidromod he participates in several projects of operationalizing mathematical models and geographic and temporal data processing (HDF5, NetCDF, etc) using the latest technologies.
Margarida Nascimento
Margarida Nascimento attended university in Mechanical Engineering at the Lisbon Engineering Superior Institute (ISEL). She has worked for HIDROMOD since 1997 and is currently in charge of administrative and financial matters, as well as the implementation and maintenance of the company’s Quality Management System.
João Ribeiro
Degree in Marine Sciences from the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, with the main scientific areas being Physical Ocenography, Mathematics, Physics, Mathematical modeling and programming. Specialist in the development, implementation and validation of marine and hydrodynamic agitation models.
Sofia Bartolomeu
Sofia Bartolomeu has a BSc in Meteotology, Oceanography and Geophysics and a MSc Degree in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the University of Aveiro. she does the AquaSafe system’s control and monitoring in HIDROMOD. Sofia idealizes, organizes and develops the means to present the information to the client through AquaSafe and assists in the data analysis and validation of waves, meteorological and oceanographic models.
João Rodrigues
João Rodrigues holds a BSc in Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics and a MSc in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from University of Aveiro. In HIDROMOD, João is responsible for maintaining operational forecast and hindcast ocean models, up and running. He is also one of the enthusiasts in the developing of new Linux and Python tools to assist the operational group.
Agata Kukulska
Agata is a frontend developer with architectural background. She holds a master’s degree in architecture and urban planning. Agata has joined her design and coding skills to become a frontend developer and now implements her own visual ideas in the digital world. In Hidromod Agata is responsible for the design, UI and UX of the flagship product AquaSafe.
Flavio Santos
With a Masters in Environmental Engineering, specilizing in Environmental Engineering Technologies, Flávio Santos was employed as a researcher at MARETEC, the reserach center for costal and hydrographic modelling of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University. At MARETEC, Flávio worked in reservoir, drainage network and flood modelling. At HIDROMOD, Flávio works in hydrographic modelling and he developed a model to predict evapotranspiration and soil moisture content in agricultural parcels.
Rúben Pereira
Graduated in Computer Engineering at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Rúben Pereira specializes in the area of Web Development (Backend and Frontend),
with emphasis on languages such as: Java, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS and with relational and non-relational database,
has professional experience with the technologies mencioned before and different operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Blockchain technology enthusiast, Ruben developed as a final project in university a Blockchain in Java from scratch. At HIDROMOD, it participates in projects in the innovation and the creation of services and/or applications.
Miguel Delgado
Miguel holds a Computer Science degree from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa with a minor in Geographic Information Technologies. In HIDROMOD Miguel works as Full stack Developer, with a focus on Typescript (Angular) and Dart (Flutter) for frontend, C# and Python for the backend and MongoDB and SQL Server for database management.
His work involves creating and enhancing mobile apps, websites and APIs, contributing to improved user experiences and system efficiency.
Débora Barreiros
Débora Barreiros is a Data Scientist in the inland water team at Hidromod. Her work involves managing, processing, and analyzing both satellite and in-situ data in the context of numerical hydrologic models and machine learning solutions for agriculture and water management. With a PhD in Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico, Débora has a strong background in scientific research and the development of computational tools to help solve complex problems.
Francisco Silva
Always curious about the ocean’s dynamics, Francisco Silva navigated through a BSc in Marine Sciences and later through an MSc in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, both at the University of Aveiro. He specialized in physical oceanography, focusing on the spatio-temporal distribution of internal waves in the world’s oceans. Together with the rest of the team, he is responsible for the continuous upkeep of the company’s operational services. He has a special interest in oceanographic data analysis and exploring new processing methods in the world of applied ocean technology.
Awards
On August 15th 2012, the International Water Association announced the 2012 IWA Project Innovation Awards Global Winners. “AQUASAFE – Smart Management Tool Implementation of SIMTEJO Wastewater System” from HIDROMOD, LDA and SIMTEJO, SA, was one of the Honour Award winners, in the Operations/Management category.
During the 8th IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, in Busan (Korea), Adélio Silva from HIDROMOD made a short presentation on AQUASAFE and received the award.