Apresentação Pessoal

Current Position: Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP); Member of the Management Board of the R&D Unit CONSTRUCT; Chairman of the Board of the Laboratory for Testing Construction Materials (LEMC); Member of the Sustainability Committee of FEUP.

Education: Degree in Civil Engineering, FEUP (1977); MSc in Soil Mechanics, FCT-UNL (1996); PhD in Civil Engineering, University of Porto (1992); Aggregation in Civil Engineering, University of Porto (2001).

Main research interests / competences: Circular Economy and sustainability: circular construction; waste as raw-material. Construction materials. Environmental Geotechnics. Geosynthetics.

Years of relevant experience: 30 

Main Activities: Principal Research of 24 research projects and team member of 10 research projects in the area of geosynthetics, environmental geotechnics, circular economy and sustainability; Supervisor of 100 scientific research papers (Post-Doc, PhD, MSc); author/co-author of more than 350 scientific papers in books, book chapters, journals and conferences. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-4825

Other relevant information: Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board for the Priority Research Area of "Climate and environmental protection, modern energy" of the Silesian University of Technology, Poland; Scientific co-coordinator of the Thematic Agenda for Research and Innovation in Circular Economy of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); board member of Smart Waste Portugal Association (ASWP), since 2015, representative of UP in the Collaborative Laboratory for Circular Economy (CECOLAB); executive member of the Board of Directors of CECOLAB.