Principal Researcher
The Presidente of LNEC

Degree in Civil Engineering, Structures, Branch, FEUP, in 1981.
PhD in Civil Engineering, FEUP, in 1994. Thesis submitted: "Dynamic Analysis of Embankment Dams. Evaluation Methods”.
Habilitation Degree (postdoctoral degree with qualification for scientific research coordination), in Soil Mechanics scientific area, LNEC, in 2006. Research and Post-graduation Programs submitted "Risk Analysis in Geotechnics. Application to Embankment Dams”.
Aggregation in Civil Engineering, IST, in 2013. Synthesis Lesson: "The Structural Safety and the Geotechnical Design”




Associações profissionais e científicas:

Scientific Themes

Geotechnics; Embankment Dams; Constitutive Models; Laboratorial and In Situ Characterization of soils, Risk Management, Seismic Risk, Observation and Behaviour of geotechnical structures;

Other curriculum data

• Head of the Geotechnical Department at LNEC (2008-2021);
• Head of the Embankment Dams and Works Division of the Geotechnical Department at LNEC (2003- 2008);
• Head of the Foundation Division of the Geotechnical Department at LNEC (1998-2003).
• President of the Scientific Council of LNEC (2014-2018);
• President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2008-2012);
• President of the European Large Geotechnical Institutes Platform (2010-2012);
• Member of the Scientific Council of the Exact Sciences and Engineering of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2009-2012);
• Member of the Portuguese Safety Dams Commission;
• Member of the Portuguese Dam Regulations Commission (2008-2014);
• Member of the Portuguese Technical Commission of IPQ CT 115 "Structural Eurocodes”; Coordinator of the Portuguese Geotechnical Engineering Regulations Subcommittee;
• President of the Portuguese Technical Commission of IPQ CT 156 "Geotechnics in Civil Engineering”;
• Member of the TC304 "Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management” of the ISSMSGE (International Society of Soils Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering);
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society;
• Member of the Technical Committee on Dam Safety of the ICOLD (International Commission on Large Dams);
• Member of the Board of European Large Geotechnical Institutes Platform (ELGIP).
• Invited Full Professor of the Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources Department at the Instituto Superior Técnico, in the Geotechnics Division (2008-2017).
• Invited Assistant Professor and Invited Associated Professor at the Faculty for Science and Technology of the University Nova de Lisboa, in the Structures Division of the Civil Engineering Department (1996-2008);
• Monitor, Intern Assistant, Assistant and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, in the Structures Division of the Civil Engineering Department (1980-1996);
• Participation in several research projects in her area of activity;
• Author or co-author de about 20 book chapters or books, about 200 papers published in national and International journals, congresses, symposia and conferences, and about 350 other reports, technical notes, and expert opinions prepared within the scope of LNEC’s activity;
• Supervision or co-supervision of five post-doctoral scholarships, eight doctoral theses and twenty-six Master's dissertations.
• Review of scientific articles submitted for publication in national and international journals.