PhD in Civil Engineering – Soils, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France), thesis: "Advective and diffusive transport of inorganic pollutants through compacted clay liners existing in the landfills. Application to Portuguese fine-grained soils” (in French), 2001.
MSc in Engineering Geology, FCTUNL (Portugal), thesis: "In situ permeability tests in the saturated and non-saturated zones” (in Portuguese), 1990.
Degree in Geological Engineer, FCTUC (Portugal), 1985.
Functions and Relevant Public Offices
Head of Laboratory for Waste and Contaminated Soils in Geotechnics - UGeoAmb, since November 2013.
President of the Board of Portuguese Environmental Geotechnics Commission - CPGA of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society - SPG, since Mars 2012.
Head of Laboratory Testing of Environmental Geotechnics - LGAmb, January 2005 to October 2013.
Coordinator of the Technical Committee on Waste Reuse in Geotechnical Works - CTVROG, in quadrennia 2004/2008 and 2008/2012.
Secretary-General of SPG, in quadrienium 2004/2008.
Senior Research Officer at LNEC, since September 2006.
Areas of Research / Interest
Waste reuse in geotechnical works.
Assessment of the environmental hazard of waste.
Containment of waste and contaminated areas with natural mineral materials.
Transport (advective/difusive) of pollutants in natural mineral materials.
Chemical compatibility soil-pollutant.
Use of new technologies and new materials in environmental geotechnics.
Research and Professional Activity
Participation in 22 projects of planned research (6 of the EU).
Coordination or co-coordination of 8 projects of planned research.
Participation in the preparation or co-preparation of 97 proposals of LNEC for studies and expert reports under contract.
Participation as author or co-author in 75 studies and expert reports under contract.
Scientific Orientation
Supervision of 12 trainees (9 at LNEC, 2 at INSA de Lyon and 1 at U. of Minho).
Supervision of 1 PhD thesis (not yet completed) and 4 MSc theses.
Relevant Publications
PhD thesis.
MSc thesis.
Books or chapter of books - 4.
Articles - 11 (7 nationals and 4 internationals).
Conference papers - 66 (39 nationals and 27 internationals).
Articles/conference papers ISI/Scopus – 9.
Technical Specifications of LNEC - 4.
Reports and technical reports of LNEC – 84 and 36.
Non-serial reports of LNEC - 7.
Expert reports of LNEC - 14.
Other scientific and technical Activities
Guest Professor at IST/UNL/LNEC (since 2009), FCTUNL (2001/2003 and 2007/2008) and FCTUC/FEUP (2003/2005).
12 university lessons, since 2002, at FCTUC (1), IP Setúbal (1), IST (1), U. Lisbon (4) and U. Minho (5).
Trainer in 6 courses, 4 being FUNDEC.
Peer reviewer in 3 int. scientific journals and in 2 Portuguese scientific journals.
Member of 21 panel of judges - PhD (1), MSc (6), SPG awards (2) and competition for university professorship of Faculty of Sciences of U. of Lisbon (1).
External assessor of the Agência de Inovação (AdI) in 2 proposals to the Incentive Systems for I&DT of QREN.
Assessor of the Professional Qualification of Senior Member of the Portuguese Society of Engineers (OE) - assessment of the qualifications of 3 members of the OE.
10 expert reports on the Report of the Triennial Activity of the LNEC researchers.
49 lectures by invitation (42 nationals and 7 internationals, with 1 keynote lecture).
Member of 5 Technical Committees (4 nationals and 1 international) and 10 Work Groups (9 nationals and 1 international).
Participation in 10 conference scientific committees (3 nat. and 7 int.).
Participation in 26 conference organising committees (20 nationals and 6 internationals; with coordination/co-coordination of 7 nationals and 2 internationals).
Participation in 11 conference revision commissions (7 nat. and 4 int.).
Session chairman in 10 conferences (5 nationals and 5 internationals) and session moderator in 4 national conferences.
Editor/co-editor of the proceedings of 4 conferences and 1 CD-Rom (the first 10 Portuguese Geotechnical Congresses, from 1985 to 2006).
Participation in 4 national conference round-tables.
Training at the U. of North Carolina at Charlotte (August 18th-September 12th, 2008).
Participation in 120 conferences (64 nationals and 56 internationals).
Frequency of 32 training actions (27 nationals and 5 internationals).
Other Information
Manuel Rocha award - Honorable Mention of Portuguese Geotechnical Society for PhD thesis completed in quadrienium 2000/2003.
Portuguese Geotechnical Society award - Honourable Mention for MSc thesis completed in biennium 1989/90.