{"id":17,"date":"2021-12-28T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2022-12-08T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:03:02","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1366\/2021\/12\/foto4_900x675-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wallace Moreira Bessa\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1366\/2021\/12\/foto4_900x675-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1366\/2021\/12\/foto4_900x675.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I am Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Turku, Finland, and Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.utu.fi\/smartsystems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smart Systems Lab<\/a>. Before taking up my position at the University of Turku, I was Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (2008-2021) and Assistant Professor at the Federal Center for Technological Education, Brazil (2004-2008). In 2014, I was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, which allowed me to be a visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, from August 2015 to July 2017. I have more than 100 scientific publications on topics such as intelligent control, machine intelligence, nonlinear systems, robotics and mechatronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Turku, Finland, and Head of the Smart Systems Lab. Before taking up my position at the University of Turku, I was Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (2008-2021) and Assistant Professor at the Federal Center for Technological Education,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6616,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/users.utu.fi\/wmobes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}