Senior Research Officer

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• 2006 - Habilitation for Scientific Coordination in Maritime Hydraulics, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Portugal;
• 1996 - Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, EUA. Equivalence to the degree "Doutor em Engenharia do Ambiente" (1997), by the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa;
• 1989 - Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Water Resources), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal.

• Head of the Estuaries and Coastal Zones Division, LNEC (2003-);
• Senior Research Officer, LNEC (2003-);
• Research Officer, LNEC (1998-2003);
• Research Trainee, LNEC (1997);
• Fellow Research Officer, LNEC (1995-1996);
• Graduate Research Assistant, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, E.U.A. (1990-1995);
• Fellow research Trainee, LNEC (1989-1990).

• Estuarine and coastal hydraulics;
• Numerical modeling;
• Numerical methods.

• Numerical methods for flow and transport: localized sigma coordinates, finite elements, Eulerian-Lagrangian methods, adaptive grids, flux-corrected methods;
• Estuarine and coastal dynamics: tides, shelf waves, turbulence, stratification, morphodynamics;
• Transport in surface waters.

• Honorable mention in the Young Investigator Award in Applied and Computational Mechanics 2005, Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics;
• Award for the best ISI indexed papers published in 2004, awarded by LNEC.

• Fluent in Portuguese, French and English.

• Fortunato, A.B. and A. Oliveira (2007). Case study: promoting the stability of the Óbidos lagoon inlet, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 133/7: 816-824.
• Pinto, L., A.B. Fortunato and P. Freire, (2006). Sensitivity analysis of non-cohesive sediment transport formulae, Continental Shelf Research, 26/15, 1826-1839.
• Oliveira, A., A.B. Fortunato and L. Pinto, (2006). Modeling the hydrodynamics and the fate of passive and active tracers in the Guadiana estuary, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 70, 76-84.
• A. Oliveira, A.B. Fortunato and J.R.L. Rego (2006). Effect of morphological changes on the hydrodynamics and flushing properties of the Óbidos lagoon (Portugal), Continental Shelf Research, 26/8: 917-942.
• Fortunato, A.B. e Oliveira, A. (2005). Influence of Intertidal Flats on Tidal Asymmetry, Journal of Coastal Research, 21/5: 1062-1067.
• Fortunato, A.B. e Oliveira, A. (2004). A Modeling System for Tidally Driven Long-term Morphodynamics, Journal of Hydraulic Research, 42/4, 426-434.
• Oliveira, A. and A.B. Fortunato (2002). Towards a Mass Conservative, Non-Oscillatory Eulerian-Lagrangian Transport Model, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 183, nº 1, 142-164.[A].
• Fortunato, A.B., L. Pinto, Oliveira, A. and J.S. Ferreira (2002). Tidally-generated Shelf Waves off the Western Iberian Coast, Continental Shelf Research, 22/14: 1935-1950.[A].
• Oliveira, A., A.B. Fortunato and A.M. Baptista (2000). Mass Conservation in Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulations of Transport in Estuaries, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering,126(8): 605-614 [A].
• Fortunato, A.B. and Oliveira, A. (1999). An Adaptive Grid Technique for the Vertical Structure of Hydrodynamic Models, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 23/8: 639-650 [A].
• Fortunato, A.B., Oliveira, A. and A.M. Baptista (1999). On the Effect of Tidal Flats on the Hydrodynamics of the Tagus Estuary, Oceanologica Acta, 22(1): 1-14 [A].