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BIO
I am a Chartered Civil Engineer with a postgraduation in Rehabilitation of Built Heritage by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2010) and a PhD in Civil Engineering by the University of Aveiro (2015). Currently, I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Civil Engineering at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and an invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra. I am also an Editor-in-Chief of Conservar Património, a SCOPUS and Web-of-Science indexed journal dedicated to heritage studies, 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. I have more than ten years of academic experience in conservation of historical structures and structural vulnerability assessment under earthquake, fire and flood. In recent years, my research has focused on the large-scale vulnerability assessment of urban areas, advanced structural analysis, non-destructive evaluation and diagnosis, and documentation of cultural heritage and historical sites. Ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world by Elsevier BV and Stanford University in the field ‘Building & Construction’ (August 2021), I am the author of more than one hundred and sixty scientific and technical publications, including 67 articles in international peer-reviewed SCI journals. According to Scopus (access date 04/05/2022), my h-index is 21 (h-index 24, according to Google Scholar) with a total number of 1191 citations (1910 in Google Scholar) by 664 documents. I have participated in eight R&D projects (four ongoing) and am currently leading one MIT Portugal research project. I have supervised 28 Master’s Dissertations (21 concluded and seven ongoing) and ten PhD Thesis (three concluded and seven ongoing). Scopus Author Identifier: 55509289200 ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6454-7927 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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August 2021 - Present
January 2018 - Present May 2017 - July 2021 |
Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England (United Kingdom) Invited Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra (Portugal) Junior Researcher Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal) |
EDUCATION
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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) |
