Phone: 218 443 664
E-mail: fsancho@lnec.pt
Professional Situation
Research Officer
Academic and Scientific Degrees
Functions and Relevant Public Offices
Areas of Research / Interest
Wave propagation, nearshore and surf-zone hydrodynamics; Sediment transport and morphological modelling in coastal areas; Coastal processes and conceptual modelling; Numerical model development and programming; Physical modelling setup, direction of experiments, and data acquisition; Monitoring of coastal state parameters and morphological changes; Coastal hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment and mapping.
Research and Professional Activity
Responsibility and/or participation in more than 20 consultancy, application-oriented projects, the majority being in Portugal. Within these projects, his main activities have been characterising and evaluating coastal engineering problems, coastal hydrodynamics, sediment dynamics, coastal vulnerability assessment, and proposal and testing of several coastal protection and rehabilitation measures.Project manager, researcher and/or team coordinator in several EU Framework Programme I&D Projects (MAST-G8M, MAST-INDIA, FP5-HUMOR, FP5-SANDPIT, FP5-TMR/LSF, FP6-HYDRALAB-III, and FP7-HYDRALAB-IV), Interreg funded projects (ANCORIM) and Portuguese Science Foundation research projects (over 10)
Scientific Orientation
Relevant Publications
Other scientific and technical Activities