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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 in Civil Engineering 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 twice among the top 2% scientists in the world by Elsevier BV and Stanford University (2021 and 2022), I am the author of more than one hundred and sixty scientific and technical publications, including 75 articles in international peer-reviewed SCI journals. According to Scopus (access date 11/04/2023), my h-index is 22 (h-index 26, according to Google Scholar) with a total number of 1,473 citations (2,261 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 |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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August 2021 - Present
September 2023 - Present Spring Term 2023 May 2017 - July 2021 |
Assistant Professor (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
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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) |
