José Fernandes

José Manoel Fernandes was born in 1956. He received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU- Brazil) in 1978. From early 1979 to September 1980, he was involved in the estimation and identification adaptive theory. As a result of this work, in 1980, he received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC-Brazil). In February 1981 he got a permanent position in the Electrical Engineering Department at UFU as a senior lecturer where he got his tenure position. In February 1986 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Newcastle, Australia as a research scholar. In February 1990 he received a PhD degree for his research in identification, analysis and control of nonlinear dynamics. As a visiting professor, he worked from 1995 to 1997 at the Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique de Gr, LAG/INPG, France. Currently, he is a Full Time Professor at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR-Brazil) and one of the coordinators of the National Program of Qualification (PNPQ – PROMINP/PETROBRAS) in the southern region of Brazil. He has authored and co-authored over fifty journal papers.