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, and 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, namely endogenous and exogenous hazards, and those related to climate change and human activity. 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.
I am the author of more than one hundred and sixty scientific and technical publications, including 61 articles in international peer-reviewed SCI journals. According to Scopus (access date 29/09/2021), my h-index is 18 (h-index 21, according to Google Scholar) with a total number of 875 citations (1458 in Google Scholar) by 504 documents. I have participated in eight R&D projects (four ongoing) and am currently leading one MIT Portugal research project. I have supervised 21 Master’s Dissertations (18 concluded and four ongoing) and nine PhD Thesis (three concluded and six 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 |
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England – UWE Bristol (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 2019 |
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) |
