Current Position: Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP); PhD Student Member of the R&D unit CONSTRUCT - Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction, in particular of the GEQUALTEC research group

Education: MSc in Civil Engineering from FEUP (2022); PhD Student in Civil Engineering at FEUP (present)

Main research interests/skills: Building Information Modelling (BIM); Digital Construction; Digital Twins; Drones; Photogrammetry; Reality Capture; Scan-to-BIM

Teaching activities and science outreach: BIM in Civil Engineering (M.EC) - practical BIM workshops and supervision of final reports; Co-supervision (non-official) of 3 MSc Dissertations (M.EC and MPRINCE); Research and Engineering Project (Builders École d'Ingénieurs, Caen, France) - scientific literature reviews workshop and supervision of Scan-to-HBIM project teams (2024); Coordinator and trainer of the "Virtual Reality" activity for the events "Profession Week: Engineering" and "U. Porto Exhibition" (2023 - present); Coordinator of the Digital Construction activity for the event "Construction and Materials Section Day" (2025 - present); ptBIM 2026 Local Organizing Committee (6th Portuguese Congress of 'Building Information Modeling')

Projects: R2UTechnologies - Research Fellow (2023-2025); REV@CONSTRUCTION - Research Trainee (2022-2023); Point Cloud Survey and Modelling of a Tunnel in Porto - Consulting (2022)

Other relevant information: buildingSMART International certified BIM professional (2024); participant of the 20th edition of CursoBIM (2023-2024); buildingSMART Portugal individual professional associate (2024); full member of the Portuguese Order of Engineers (2024); remote drone pilot from the A1, A2 and A3 subcategories; author of 15 technical and scientific publications; experience as a peer reviewer for international scientific journals and conferences (including ptBIM, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis)

Awards: Professor João Lopes Porto Award, for the best MSc Dissertation in Building Construction (2020/2021)

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Last Updated: 13-08-2025