Born in Bogotá (Colombia), Jaime Villate is an Assistant Professor at University of Oporto. But not only that. Jaime’s main research interests are Astronomical Optical Interferometry and e-learning systems. In the area of astronomical interferometry. He worked with the GRAVITY project of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). In the area of e-learning, he has supervised 2 Master theses on the production of multimedia educational material and the use of the Learning Management System MOODLE, and is currently supervising a Ph. D. thesis. From 2001 to 2009 he was a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN.
Jaime received an M. A. degree in Physics, in 1987, and a Ph. D. in Physics and Astronomy, in 1990, both from the University of Rochester, New York. He was also a founding member and the first president of Portuguese Free Software Association. Besides physics and the freedom of software, Jaime interest in also on painting, having some really cool examples of his work on his website.
