Professors Rubipiara Cavalcante Fernandes and Carlos Ernani da Veiga from the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, Brazil visited the laboratories of the BISITE Research Group and met with its director, Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, who presented some of the projects that the group is developing.

The visit was an opportunity to discuss the possibility of creating future joint projects in the field of the energy sector and traceability based on blockchain technology, given the professors’ academic backgrounds and our experience as a research group.

Dr. Rubipiara Cavalcante Fernandes is Full Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Brazil. He is also leader of the Research Group on Electric Energy Systems – GESE and has developed numerous research and technology transfer projects together with other colleagues from IFSC, the Federal University of Santa Catarina, companies in the Brazilian electricity sector and international teaching institutions.

In addition, he has experience in Electrical Engineering,especially in Regulation and Electricity Market, working mainly on the following topics: regulation and energy market, energy efficiency, electricity generation (mini and microgeneration), electromobility, green hydrogen, electricity distribution, electricity tariff systems and demand response.

Carlos Ernani da Veiga, PhD. M.e, is Professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Brazil, where he has been working since 1992. He has experience in electrical and electrotechnical engineering, programming in Basic, Python, PHP and Pascal scripts using PostgreSQL (PL/pgSQL) and Oracle (PL/SQL) database. He is also a Researcher at the Research Group on Electric Energy Systems (GESE) – IFSC/Brazil and the Research Group on Smart Grids (LabSmart), Brazil.

This is certainly a great opportunity to develop joint projects.