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Hydraulics and Environment Department Hydraulics and Environment Department

Tiago Nunes Martins

Tiago Nunes Martins
Phone: 218 443 561

Professional Situation

PhD scholarship funded by within the H2Doc – Environmental Hydraulics and Hydrology programme funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (03/2018 to present day)

Academic and Scientific Degrees

  • Master in Applied Geology, specialization in Hydrogeology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 2016. Dissertation title: "Contaminants retention in soils as a complementary water treatment method. Application in Soil-Aquifer Treatment processes”.
  • Degree in Environmental and Applied Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 2010

Functions and Relevant Public Offices

  • Research fellow, EU Project MARSOL, (03/2016 to 03/2018)
  • Fellow Technician Trainee (11/2010 to 11/2015)

Areas of Research / Interest

  • Geographic Information Systems applied to water resources.
  • Mathematical modelling of flow and transport in groundwater.
  • Evaluation of groundwater recharge.
  • Assessment of vulnerability to pollution of aquifers.
  • Soil-Aquifer treatment and Managed Aquifer Recharger methodologies.

Research and Professional Activity

  • 4 research projects
  • 10 consultancy studies
  • 6 research projects and consultancy studies proposals
  • 3 training courses

Relevant Publications

  • 1 MSc dissertation
  • 1 book (as co-editor)
  • 25 LNEC technical reports
  • 33 research project reports
  • 3 articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • 25 papers presented at scientific meetings
  • MARTINS, T., LEITÃO, T.E., CARVALHO, M.R. (2016) Assessment of wastewater contaminants retention for a Soil-Aquifer Treatment system using soil-column experiments. 15th Water-Rock Interaction International Symposium, WRI-15, 16-21 de outubro de 2016, Évora, 4 pp.
  • LEITÃO, T.E., LOBO FERREIRA, J.P., CARVALHO, T.M., MONTEIRO, J.P., OLIVEIRA, M.M., AGOSTINHO, R., COSTA L.R.D., MARTINS, T., HENRIQUES, M.J. (2016) Gestão de Recarga Induzida de Aquíferos. Exemplos do Projeto MARSol no Algarve. 13.º Congresso da Água, 7-9 de março de 2016, 15 pp.
  • LEITÃO, T.E., MARTINS, T., HENRIQUES, M.J. E ILIE, A.M.C. (2015) Ensaios em Coluna-de-Solo para Avaliar o Destino de Poluentes de ETAR Simulando Condições de Recarga Controlada de Aquíferos (SAT-MAR). 12.º SILUSBA, Brasília, 22-27 de novembro de 2015.
  • LEITÃO, T. E., LOBO FERREIRA, J.P. e MARTINS, T. (2013) Evolução da Qualidade das Águas Subterrâneas na Zona Envolvente ao Complexo Químico de Estarreja. Perspetivas Futuras. "9.º Seminário sobre Águas Subterrâneas", organizado pela APRH, Costa de Caparica, 7 e 8 de março de 2013, 4 pp.
  • LEITÃO, T.E., LOBO FERREIRA, J.P., CARVALHO, T.M., MONTEIRO, J.P., OLIVEIRA, M.M., AGOSTINHO, R., COSTA, L.R.D., HENRIQUES, M.J., MARTINS, T., MARTINS DE CARVALHO, J. (2015) Demonstrating Managed Aquifer Recharge as a Solution to Water Scarcity and Drought: Description of Marsol Project Demo Sites in Portugal. 10.º Seminário de Águas Subterrâneas, Évora, 9-10 de abril de 2015, pp. 29-32.
  • MARTINS, T., LEITÃO, T.E., BARBOSA, A.E. e HENRIQUES, M.J. (2015) Assessment of Soil Characteristics for Managed Aquifer Recharge using Soil-column Experiments. 10.º Seminário de Águas Subterrâneas, Évora, 9-10 de abril de 2015, pp. 33-36.
  • MELO J., ARAÚJO, L., OLIVEIRA, M., MARTINS, T., PINTO, M., FREITAS, P. (2015) Hazard Potential Classification of Dams Using a Simplified Methodology. Second International Dam World Conference 2015, 599-608p.

Other scientific and technical Activities

  • Advanced training in groundwater modelling software FEFLOW certified by DHI – 2014
  • "Free and Open Source Software Tools for Water Resource Management” FREEWAT course (LNEC, Lisbon) – 2017
  • REWAT Summer School "Digital Water Management and Water-Related Agroecosystem Services: Geostatistics, Hydroinformatics and Groundwater Flow Numerical Modelling”, (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy) – 2018

Other Information

  • Young Researcher Award 2008/09 by the Portuguese Water Resources Association (APRH) for the MSc dissertation "Contaminants retention in soils as a complementary water treatment method. Application in Soil-Aquifer Treatment processes".
  • Contribution to the development of the groundwater modelling tool FREEWAT (www.freewat.eu) – improvement of particle tracking in irregular our rotated grid.

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