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Rui Fernandes
Principal Investigator at UBI - University of Beira Interior
Coordinator of Instituto D. Luis @ UBI
Coordinator of SEGAL - Space & Earth Geodetic Analysis Laboratory
Coordinator of C4G - Collaboratory for Geosciences
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-284X">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-284X</a>
WhatsApp: +351 919999300</pre>
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