Devezas, Tessaleno C.

Last name:  Devezas
Name:  Tessaleno C.

Tessaleno C. Devezas is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Electromechanics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he teaches and researches in the field of Materials Science and Technological Forecast-ing and leads the Working Group in Technological Forecasting and Innovation The-ory. He is a member of the World Future Society, World Futures Studies Federation and International Kondratieff Foundation and member of the Advisory Board of the Periodical Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Prof. Devezas earned a BSc in Physics in 1970 with the University of the Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), a MSc in Materials Science in 1974 with the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and a PhD in Materials Engineering in 1981 with the University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). In 2002 he was honored with the ‘Elsevier Best Paper Prize’ for his paper proposing a model explaining the mechanism underlying Kondratieff waves and in 2006 another of his papers (about the growth dynamics of the Internet) received an Honor Mention from Elsevier. In 2004 he was awarded with the Silver Kondratieff Medal by the International Kondratieff Foundation for his written contributions for the understanding of the Kondratieff waves. He is the author/co-author of more than 60 scientific papers published in several international scientific periodicals and 7 books.