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João Coutinho

João M. Coutinho Rodrigues

Position | Categoria: Full Professor | Professor Catedrático

Director 2019-2021

E-mail: coutinho@dec.uc.pt

Office SA 3.11

Research room: SA3.5

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Links:

Home - http://kreation.dec.uc.pt/

Projects - http://kreation.dec.uc.pt/projects.html

Civil Eng. stuff - http://kreation.dec.uc.pt/civil.html

Academic resources - http://kreation.dec.uc.pt/decisionsupport.html

                                 - http://kreation.dec.uc.pt/trenergy.html

R&D Unit / INESC Coimbra - https://www.uc.pt/en/org/inescc

Teaching Activities:

Professor of Civil and Environmental Integrated Master Programmes.

Professor of EfS-Energy for Sustainability / MIT Portugal Msc and PhD Programmes.

Professor of Doctoral Program in Spatial Planning.

Professor of Urban Mobility Management Msc Programmes.

 

Research & Management Activities:

Board of Directors, Department of Civil Engineering / Faculty of Sciences & Technology / University of Coimbra

Board of Directors, Senior Researcher at INESC-Coimbra (Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra R&D Unit), SmartCities and Transportation Network Optimization Group Head

Head of Urban, Transportation and Infrastructure Planning & Management Scientific Area - Dep. of Civil Eng., FCTUC

Member of the Scientific Commission of the Civil Engineering Department (elected)

Energy for Sustainability Initiative (UC) Interdisciplinary Council member (INESC-Coimbra)

Scientific and technical supervisor of R&D projects, and projects of UC and INESC Coimbra for industry.

Member of the International Committee on Statistical Interpretation of Dam Failures  - ICOLD (Intern. Commission on Large Dams)

Member of the Portuguese Dam Safety Commission

Member of the editorial board of Municipal Engineer scientific journal (ICE - Institution of Civil Engineers, London)

Expert for QREN Projects Evaluation

Author of several technical and scientific books

Author of over 200 scientific papers, reports and conference presentations

Referee of top engineering, planning and optimization international scientific journals

 

Author of computer technical and scientific applications as well as Decision Support Systems, with extensive computational implementations of mathematical models, heuristics and human-computer interfaces for optimization problems in civil, transportation and environmental engineering.

Short CV:

João Coutinho-Rodrigues is currently Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra (where he has been since 1980), and senior researcher in the Decision Support in Systems Engineering group at INESC-Coimbra.

He received his Degree in Civil Eng., his MSc in Computer Science and PhD in Civil Eng. from the University of Coimbra.

Research interests include: decision support systems, multicriteria analysis, mathematical programming, network optimization, GIS, and applications in urban/environmental/transportation engineering including smartcities, infrastructures and sustainable mobility.

He has published scientific researches, among other peer-reviewed international scientific journals, some ranking in the first positions of the respective categories, in:

• Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Computers & Operations Research

Decision Support Systems

 Engineering Optimization

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

European Journal of Operational Research

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

Geographical Analysis

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

International Journal of Geo-Information

Journal of Business Logistics

Journal of Infrastructure Systems - American Society of Civil Engineers, USA

Journal of Transport Geography

Municipal Engineer - Institution of Civil Engineers, UK

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Sustainability

Tourism

Transport Policy

Transportation Research - Part A: Policy and Practice

Transportation Research - Part B: Methodological

Transportation Research Record

Waste Management

Water Power & Dam Construction.

 

He has received several awards, such as the best paper award James Hill by the Municipal Engineer - ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers, London).

 

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