​BIO​

I am a Chartered Civil Engineer with a postgraduate degree in Rehabilitation of Built Heritage from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2010) and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2015). Currently, I am a Senior Lecturer in Smart and Resilient Cities and Structures at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), deputy Programme Leader for the MSc in Civil Engineering, and an invited Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra. I am also a Co-Editor-in-Chief of GeoHazards, a multidisciplinary open-access journal devoted to theoretical and applied research across the whole spectrum of geomorphological hazards, and a Section Editor-in-Chief of Fire, an international open-access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment. My academic activity has been dedicated to studying the structural vulnerability of historical buildings and urban areas to natural and anthropogenic hazards, particularly earthquakes, fires, floods, and landslides. More recently, I have focused on the interaction between different hazards and physical and social vulnerability, both in the context of single, and compound and cascading hazards.

Ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world by Elsevier BV and Stanford University in 2021, 2022 and 2023, I am the author of more than one hundred and sixty scientific and technical publications, including 82 articles in international peer-reviewed SCI journals. According to Scopus (access date 14/03/2024), my h-index is 24 (h-index 29, according to Google Scholar) with a total number of 1,796 citations (2,829 in Google Scholar) by 835 documents. I have participated in eight R&D projects (four ongoing) and am currently leading one MIT Portugal research project. I have supervised 25 Master’s Dissertations (23 concluded and two ongoing) and ten PhD Thesis (five completed and five ongoing).

Scopus Author Identifier: 55509289200      ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6454-7927

When @SportingCP_en and @FCVizelaOficial netted their goals this weekend, a handmade seismograph placed around 600m from the stadium captured TWO peaks on the accelerogram! □ How cool is that? Shoutout to the Portuguese Society for Earthquake Engineering! □ #SeismicCelebration pic.twitter.com/CWRFbi8LPN

— Dr Tiago Miguel Ferreira (He/Him) (@tmferreira) August 20, 2023

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2021 - Present


​September 2023 - Present


Spring Term 2023​


May 2017 - July 2021

Senior Lecturer
College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE), School of Engineering, University of the West of England (United Kingdom)​

Invited Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra (Portugal)​

Visiting Professor
​Department of Earth Science and Engineering, D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara​ (Italy)

​Associate Researcher
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE)
​Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal)

EDUCATION

January 2015


January 2011


July 2009

PhD in Civil Engineering
University of Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal)

Advanced Studies in Rehabilitation of Built Heritage
Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto, Oporto (Portugal)​

​MSc in Civil Engineering
University of Aveiro, Aveiro (Portugal)