Personal Presentation

Current Position: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineeering of the University of (FEUP); Integrated member of the R&D unit CONSTRUCT - Institute for R&D in Structures and Construction.

Education: Civil Engineering degree from FEUP (1999); MSc in Structural Steel Design from Imperial College (2000); PhD in Civil Engineering from Imperial College (2006).

Main interests/skills: Analysis and design of steel and composite structures; Seismic risk assessment and retrofitting of building structures and infrastructures; Structural Optimization.

Years of relevant experience: 15

Main activities: Principal Investigator of 3 research projects and team member of 10 research projects in the field of steel structures and earthquake enginering; supervisor of 8 PhD thesis; author of more than 150 technical and scientific publications.

Other relevant information: Member of Technical Committee 13 – Seismic Design of the European Convention for Constructional Steel Work; Member of WG2 of TC250/SC8 (steel and composite structures). Founder of SimpleAxis.

More information available at: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9732-9969