Full Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Coimbra
Currently: Member of the Faculty Assembly of FCTUC; Coordinator of Structures Area of the Department of Civil Engineering of UC.
Recent teaching subjects
Structural Concrete II (MSc course in Civil Engineering)
Conservation and Rehabilitation of Structures (MSc course in Civil Engineering)
Experimental Techniques (PhD course in Civil Engineering)
Research interests
Behaviour of Structural Concrete; High Strength Structures; Non Metalic Reinforcement; Non Cementitious Concretes.
Composite Timber-Concrete Structures
Membership
Full member of National Association of Enginners since 1984; at present is "Councillor Member" in Civil Engineering and Specialist in Structures.
Individual Member No. 350 of Portuguese Group of Structural Concrete (Member of Fib)
Individual Member No. 192 of the Portuguese Group of Structural Engineering (member of IABSE)
Supervision
Supervisor of more than 50 finished MSc theses, 6 finished PhD theses, and 3 finished Post Doc researchers.
Reviewing
Reviewer of papers for more than 20 conferences, as a member of the scientific or technical committees.
Reviewer of papers for nearly 30 scientific journals, most of them listed in ISI JCR and Scopus.
Reviewer of research proposals and grants for some governmental institutions: Slovac Research and Development Agency; FWO of Belgium; Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus; National Center of Sience and Technology of kazakhstan; Foundation for the Science and Technology of Portugal.
Publications
More than 150 published works, most of them in English.
ISI ResearcherID: A-1637-2010. URL: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1637-2010
Scopus URL: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006796407