Jos P. van Leeuwen, PhD

• Associate Professor in Computational Design
• Department of Mathematics and Engineering.
• University of Madeira, Portugal.

Qualifications:

• BEng (Structural Engineering),
• MSc (Architectural Engineering),
• PhD (Computer Science in Architecture & Construction)

Managerial tasks:

• Assistant director of the research unit Lab:USE
• Director and lecturer of the Bachelor of Interactive Media Design

Teaching responsiblities in 2009-10:

• Interface and Interaction Design (Professional Master of Human-Computer Interaction - CMU|Portugal)
• Computer Aided Design (undergraduate Civil Engineering course)
• Hypermedia Design (undergraduate Interactive Media Design course)
• Design Project (undergraduate Interactive Media Design course)
• 3D Design (undergraduate Interactive Media Design course & Professional Master of Human-Computer Interaction - CMU|Portugal)
• Graduation Project supervision (Master of Computer Science)

Current research activities:

I am presently running the Madeira Life research project, a three-year project on social networking, new media, and location-awareness, in collaboration with Madeira Tecnopolo, ZON Madeira, and Carnegie Mellon University.

More info:

• For more information about my activities, please visit http://jos.vanleeuwen.name
• On my personal site you find information about my teaching and research interests and a list of my publications, with many of them in full text.

Contact:

• Departamento de Matemática e Engenharias
• Office 2.83
• Universidade da Madeira
• Campus da Penteada
• 9000-390 Funchal
• Portugal
• Tel: +351 291 70 5295

Jos van Leeuwen is Associate Professor in Computational Design at the Department of Mathematics and Engineering of the University of Madeira, Portugal, where he teaches subjects in the areas of computational design, interaction design, collaborative design, hypermedia design, and computer-aided design, in several undergraduate and graduate engineering programs. He is author and director of the undergraduate Interactive Media Design program. Teaching in the Master of Human-Computer Interaction, he is also adjunct faculty of the HCI institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2007, he is assistant director of the Laboratory for Usage-Centered Software Engineering (www.labuse.org). His general research interest is in using design to enhance communication and vice versa. In particular his interest is in social networking, location-awareness, and design methods. He holds an MSc and PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology. Before joining the University of Madeira in 2006 he worked 14 years at Eindhoven University of Technology, a few years in software industry, and a post-doctoral/sabbatical year at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.