Habilitation in Civil Engineering by LNEC (2016).
Program:  "The structural behaviour of ballasted railway tracks. Contributions to  improve the efficiency and quality of operation.”

Aggregation in Civil Engineering by FEUP (2018).

Professional and scientific associations:

• Senior  Member of the Portuguese Engineers Association. Expert in Geotechnics and Expert in Transport and Transportation Infrastructures.
• Portuguese Geotechnical Society.
• Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics.
• Portuguese Association for Experimental Stress Analysis.
• International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.

Main Research Areas:

• Transport infrastructures and embankment dams (design, construction, renewal,  characterization, monitoring, physical and numerical modelling and behaviour analysis); laboratory and "in situ" characterization of geomaterials; asset management in transport infrastructures.

Other curriculum data:

• Member of the Board of Directors at LNEC (2021 - …).
• Head of Transportation Infrastructures Unit at LNEC (2013-2021).
• Head of Railway Infrastructures Unit at LNEC (2007-2013).
• Invited Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2006 - …).
• Consultant in Civil Engineering projects (2000-2003).
• Vice President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2020 - …).
• Vice President of Portuguese Committee of Geotechnics for Transportation (2012 - …).
• Member of the Strategic Council of the Portuguese Railway Platform (2017 - …).
• Member of the Executive Committee for Specialization in Geotechnics of the Portuguese Engineers Association (2010-2019).
• Member of the Technical Certification Committee of the Portuguese Association for Railway Standardization and Certification (2021 - …).
• Member of the Technical Committee for Standardization TC 143 – Railway applications (2012 - …).
• Member of the Technical Committee for Standardization TC 154 – Aggregates (2003 - …).
• Member of several technical committees of the International Society of Soil  Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE): TC 13 – Mechanics of  Granular Materials (1996-2000); TC 3 – Geotechnics of pavements and rail tracks (2002-2010); TC 202 – Transportation Geotechnics (2010 - …).
• Corresponding member of the Technical Committee for Earthwork, Drainage and Subgrade of the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses (PIARC)  (2004-2007).
• Portuguese Geotechnical Society Award 1993/1994  (MSc Thesis) – Honourable mention; Portuguese Geotechnical Society Award  2004/2007 – Honourable mention (PhD Thesis; "Manuel Rocha” Research  Prize 2005/2006.
• Coordinated several research projects, which included the supervision or co-supervision of 29 MSc theses, 4 PhD theses, 4 doctoral studies in progress and 25 scientific internships.
• Author or co-author of about 200 publications, including books, articles in scientific journals, communications to scientific and technical meetings, and about 250 other reports and technical notes carried out within the scope of LNEC's activities.
• Associate Editor and  Guest Editor of scientific journals, reviewer of articles submitted for publication in more than 30 international scientific journals and reviewer of communications in about 20 scientific and technical events.