Amadeu Leão Rodrigues was born in Anadia, Portugal, in 27 of November 1939. He received the Dipl. Eng. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the High Technical Institute (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1968. He also received the M.Sc. degree in Power Systems and Electrical Machines (awarded a mark of distinction) and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in 1973 and 1983, respectively. For his Ph.D. work he received a National Scientific Research Institute (INIC) Fellowship.

During his military service he spent two years in the Portuguese Navy as a second-in-command officer of a patrol boat in the colonial war.

From 1969 to 1976 he was Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Luanda, Angola, where he taught electrical machines theory and design. He then joined the New University of Lisbon where he became Associate Professor of Electrical Properties of Materials at Science Materials Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology. In 1987 he became Head of the Department.

From 1988 to February 1990, he was invited to be Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State for Science and Technology. From 1990 to 1996 the Portuguese Government appointed him as National Coordinator of the NATO Science for Stability Programme as well as National Administrator of the NATO Science Fellowships Programme. For his job in NATO Javier Solana awarded him. In 1992 he followed a one year Defence Course in the National Institute of Defence of Lisbon.

Currently, he is Professor of Electromagnetism and Electromagnetic Devices in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the New University of Lisbon where he is involved in teaching and research activities, mainly in Special Electrical Machines using Superconductors Materials. He is a Consultant of a NATO Science for Piece Project in the area of Superconductivity running in the Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia.

About sixty scientific papers in the area of materials and electrical machines have been published on Conferences proceedings and specialised magazines.

Hysteresis motor with conventional and superconductor rotors, International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM’2000), Helsinki, Finland, August 2000. (zipped pdf)

Teoria e Cálculo do Motor de Histerese – Revista Electricidade nº388, Maio-Junho 2001. (zipped pdf)

New Electric Reluctance Motor with Bulk Superconducting Materials on the Rotor, International Aegean Conference on Electrical Machines (ACEMP 2001), Kusadasi, Turkey, 27-29 June 2001. (zipped pdf)

Novo motor eléctrico de relutância com material supercondutor no rotor, 7^as Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Ingenieria Eléctrica, 4-6 de Julho 2001, Universidade Carlos III de Madrid. (zipped pdf)

Motores Eléctricos com o Rotor em Supercondutor Cerâmico, Ver. Electricidade nº 393, Março - Abril 2002. (zipped pdf)

Brushless electrical machines with superconductor rotors, International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM’2002), Bruges, Belgium, August 2002. (zipped pdf)

Flux  Modelling  of Reluctance Machines with Bulk Superconducting Materials (In publication). (zipped pdf)

Flux Plot Modelling of  Superconducting Hysteresis Machines. (In publication). (zipped pdf)

Multipole Superconducting  Synchronous Generator. (In publication).

Torque Modelling of Superconducting Reluctance Machine. (In publication). (zipped pdf)

High Temperature Superconductor Materials and their Applications in Electric Motors. (In publication). (zipped pdf)

Desenho e Construção de um Motor Linear de Indução de Baixa Velocidade, Rodolfo Oliveira.

	Final Report (in Portuguese) (pdf).
	Paper (in Portuguese) (pdf).
	Presentation (in Portuguese) (pps).