Curriculum Vitae

Professional Situation

Assistant Researcher

Academic and Scientific Degrees

• PhD in Engineering Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, November 2010.
• Masters Degree in Ecology, Management and Modelling of Marine Resources, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2003.
• Environmental Engineering Degree, specialization in Environment, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1999, classification of 15/20

Functions and Relevant Public Offices

She has been an Assistant Researcher at LNEC since June 2025. Between November 2019 and May 2025, she was a Postdoctorate at LNEC. Until October 2022, she carried out her work within the scope of the To-SEAlert and EW-Coast projects. Since 2022, she has been involved in, amongst others, the European projects LIFE-GARACHICO, C2IMPRESS (coordinator of the LNEC team, completed in 2025) and CLIMATE-ADAPT4EOSC. She is also involved in LNEC’s E2I projects: RISKALL (of which she is co-coordinator), STELLA, NAVPOR and WISER.

Main activities: all the activities related to the development of the projects objectives, namely the development of forecast, alert, emergency planning and management systems for wave overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas, and multi-hazard analysis.

Research and Professional Activity

From 2012 to June 2018 - Coordinator of the Mathematical Modelling Department at WW – Consultores de Hidráulica e Obras Marítimas, S.A.

Main activities: Coordination and development of studies of numerical modelling in the areas of maritime hydraulics and coastal engineering (wave propagation from offshore to onshore, wave disturbance in harbours and coastal areas, sediment transport, design wave definition), coordination and development of coastal protection design studies based in "soft” solutions (artificial dunes and geotextile cylinders), collaboration in the environmental part of the projects that were developed in WW, SA. Participation in all the design phases, from the Preliminary Design to the Detailed Design, both to public and private entities, at the national and international level.

From August 2010 to 2012 - Technical Engineer, Mathematical Modelling Department, at WW – Consultores de Hidráulica e Obras Marítimas, S.A.

Main activities: development of numerical modelling studies in maritime hydraulics and coastal engineering, collaboration in the development of the Management plans of the Hydrographic Regions 1, 2, 3 and 4 in their transition and coastal waters components.

The tasks performed have involved a series of specialized activities, such as data analysis and GIS software. The performed tasks have also involved the production of technical reports, of cartographic elements, and also oral presentations for project partners.

From October 2000 to April 2010 - Research Trainee at the Ports and Maritime Structures Unit, Hydraulics and Environment Department of the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering of Portugal (LNEC)

Main activities: has developed her activity within the maritime hydraulic areas, more precisely in the linear and nonlinear numerical modelling of wave propagation and deformation, including the surf zone, having also developed and applied GIS systems for coastal engineering studies, and developed wave disturbance numerical models. Has participated in all the phases of several research projects, including the proposal phase, the organization of technical and scientific events, the participation in technical meetings in Portugal and abroad, as well as the participation in field campaigns for data collection.

From May 2000 to September 2000 - Research Trainee at the Centre for Coastal and Marine Environmental Studies (CIACOMAR) from the University of Algarve

Main activities: has participated in the research project MAST III "INDIA - Inlet Dynamics Initiative: Algarve”, having also actively collaborated in the organization of the "3.º Simpósio sobre a Margem Continental Ibérica Atlântica”, that was held from 25 to 27 September 2000 in Faro, Portugal.

Scientific Orientation

Is currently tutoring a doctorate student from the University of Algarve under the theme of compound flooding in estuarine environments. Is also tutoring a trainee under the theme of the SFINCS model application in Figueira da Foz harbour. Has supervised three Master’s students on topics relating to the use of numerical models in the calculation of wave overtopping. Has supported several research trainees, namely within the following themes: numerical modeling of wave propagation and deformation in coastal zones; application and development of integrated systems of wave disturbance modeling in GIS environment; development and implementation of HIDRALERTA system. 

Relevant Publications

Thesis

• Modelação Numérica da Rebentação das Ondas. Sistema Integrado de Modelação da Agitação Marítima (in portuguese), thesis submitted to obtain the PhD degree in Engineering Sciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2010.
• Modelo de elementos finitos para a propagação e deformação de ondas irregulares em zonas costeiras (in portuguese), thesis submitted to obtain the Masters degree in Ecology, Management and Modeling of Marine Resources, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2003.

National and International Journals

Author or co-author of more than 80 publications that cover publications in national and international journals, as well as presentations in scientific conferences (national and international).

• Rimlinger, J. Jaumouillé, A., Freissinet, C., Craveiro, J.L., Zózimo, A.C., Oliveira, M.M., Cruz, M.M., Bakogianni, E., Tzempelikos, D., Pavlidi, E., Sfetsos, A. (2026). “Shaping local disaster risk governance through multi-stakeholder collaboration: Insights from the public-private-civil partnership approach - Application to the case studies of the municipality of Egaleo (Greece) and Centro Region (Portugal)”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 133, 2026, 105973, ISSN 2212-4209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105973.
• Lima, L.; Fortes, C.J.E.M.; Zózimo, A.C.; Pinheiro, L., 2025. “The LIFE-GARACHICO Project: A Holistic and Flexible Management of Coastal Flooding Risk in Praia da Vitória, Azores”, GeoHazards 2025, 6, 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards6020025.
• Pinheiro, L.V.; Zózimo, A.C.; Fortes, C.J.E.M. (2024). "New developments in the Praia da Vitória Coastal Bay and Harbor Early Warning System", in Coastal and Offshore Science and Engineering, Year II - Vol.4 - 2023, pp. 6-18, DOI: 10.53256/COSE_230201.

Other scientific and technical Activities

Has attended two courses from the PhD Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies, namely "Ethics, Public Policies and Environmental Diplomacy” and "Theories and Practices of Sustainable Development”. Has also attended to more than 20 short courses that covered the following areas: risk management, application of numerical models developed by the Danish Hydraulics Institute (DHI), more specifically within the themes maritime hydraulics and sediment transport and by Deltares, in the fields of wave overtopping and compound flooding; Coastal Engineering; Environment; Geographical Information Systems; Microsoft Office; Languages: French and English; Acquisition of educational skills.

She was a lecturer on the 2025 edition of the Maritime and Port Works Course, specialising in the topic of risks.

Other Information

Adolpho Loureiro Award – FEUP 2011, PIANC Portuguese Delegation, to the work "Test and validation of a nonlinear model with energy dissipation due to wave breaking”.