Personal Presentation

Current position: Assistant Professor at FEUP, Civil Engineering Department, Geotechnics Division.

Academic qualifications: Degree in Civil Engineering from FEUP (1985); Master Degree in Civil Engineering Structures from FEUP (1990); Doctoral Degree in Geomechanics from the École Polytechnique, Paris, France (1996).

Main research interests/skills: Shear tests of rock discontinuities; digital image processing for soil particle size and shape analysis, morphologic characterization of rock surfaces and identification of discontinuity sets in rock formations; numerical models of caverns for storage of gases in rock salt formations; stability analysis of rock slopes.