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Professional Situation

Senior Researcher at LNEC

Academic and Scientific Degrees

• 2012 - PhD in Civil  Engineering, IST / UTL (Lisbon, Portugal), Dissertation entitled  "Monitoring of hydraulic and water quality variables in wastewater  drainage systems."
• 2003 - Master in Hydraulics and Water  Resources, IST / UTL, Dissertation entitled "Integrated assessment of  wastewater systems."
• 1997 - Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Water Resources), IST / UTL.

Functions and Relevant Public Offices

• In 2014, joined the Urban  Water Division of LNEC as post-doctoral researcher, since 2019 as  Assistant Researcher, and since 2024 as Senior Researcher
• Between 2006 and 2017, teacher at the Technical Institute of Setúbal (ESTBarreiro / IPS).
• Between 2006 and 2011, developed several consulting projects in urban drainage.
• Between 1997 and 2006, joined Sanest, S.A., as Tecnical Specialist.

Areas of Research / Interest

• Urban drainage systems; wastewater and stormwater.
• Monitoring of hydraulic and water quality parameters.
• Modeling the hydraulic behavior of surface runoff and urban drainage systems.
• Condition assessment of drainage systems.
• Integration of water in urban planning: Nature-Based Solutions.
• Condition assessment and hydraulic modeling of drainage systems.
• Nature based solutions.
• Asset management.
• Urban Resilience.

Research and Professional Activity

Recent projects:

• ICARIA - Bridging disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in multi-risk management, 2023-2025
• UP2030 - Planning and Design for Urban Prosperity by 2030, 2023-2025
• Life  Fitting – Demonstration of an innovative PLAN-DO toolbox for a safer,  resource efficient and fit-for-purpose wastewater treatment 2023-2025
• EMUE - Examples of measurement uncertainty evaluation. 2018-2021.
• RESCCUE  - RESilience to cope with Climate Change in Urban arEas - a  multisectorial approach focusing on water (H2020). 2016 - 2020.
• iAFLUI - Iniciativa Nacional para o Controlo de Afluências Indevidas. 1ª (2016-2018) e 2ª edições (2019 – 2021).

Scientific Orientation

Supervision of Thesis

• Paula  Beceiro (2021). Assessing the contribution of Nature-Based Solutions to  urban resilience. A comprehensive assessment framework with focus on  stormwater management and control. PhD Thesis IST/UTL.
• João  Paulo Almeida (2016). Identificação de fontes de poluição em coletores  com recurso a espectros UV-Vis. Master Thesis IST/UTL.

Relevant Publications

Books or book chapters

• Rodrigues, S., Costa, A., Cardoso, J., Rodrigues, R., Cardoso,  M.A., Rosa, M.J., Brito, R.S., Silva, C., Beceiro, P., Jorge, C.,  Alegre, H., Martinho, G., Pina, J., Silveira, A., Alves, A., Ana, J.,  Ramos, M., Carrega, M. (2021). Guia de avaliação da qualidade dos  serviços de águas e resíduos prestados aos utilizadores - 4.ª geração do  sistema de avaliação. Guia Técnico 27, ERSAR. Lisboa, Portugal. ISBN  978-989-8360-42-7. 354 p
• Cardoso, M.A., Almeida, M.C., Telhado,  M.J., Morais, M., Brito, R.S. (2022). Chapter 7 Assessing urban  resilience to cope with climate change. Em: Investing in Disaster Risk  Reduction for Resilience. Design, methods and knowledge in the face of  climate change. Eds. A. Nuno Martins, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Temitope  Egbelakin, Liliane Hobeica, J.M. Mendes, Adib Hobeica, Paperback ISBN:  9780128186398. eBook ISBN: 9780128187357.
• Ribeiro, A.S.,  Cox, M.G., Almeida, M.A., Sousa, J.A., Martins, L.L., Simões, C., Brito,  R.S., Loureiro, D., Silva., M.A., Soares, A.C. (2021). Evaluation of  measurement uncertainty in average areal rainfall - uncertainty and  propagation for three methods. Example E3.1 in Compendium of examples of  EMUE project. Van der Veen, A.M.H. & Cox M. (Eds). Alemanha:  EURAMET.
• Almeida, M.C., Brito, R. S., Cardoso, M.A. (2018).  Approach to assess and control inflows into sewers. Technical Course N.  8, ERSAR. ISBN 978-972-98996-8-3).
• Brito, R., Cardoso, M. C.;  Alegre, H. (2018). ISO 55000 as a tool to support planning and decision  on sanitation solutions. Technical Course N. 8, ERSAR. ISBN  978-972-98996-8-3).
• Lopes, R., Tonon, I., Ferreira, F., Matos,  J.S., Barreiro, J., Matos, R., Brito, R. S., Fontanals, I., Vendrell,  E., Telhado, M.J. (2017). Urban drainage and resilience approaches  towards more sustainable cities. Technical Course N. 8, ERSAR. ISBN  978-972-98996-8-3).
• Alegre, H., Cardoso, M.A., Brito, R.S.,  Amaral, R. (2017). Guias orientadores: Introdução à Gestão Patrimonial  de Infraestruturas. Sistema de avaliação de desempenho no âmbito da  gestão patrimonial de infraestruturas. Cadastro de infraestruturas de  abastecimento de água, de águas residuais e de águas pluviais. Ordens de  serviço. ERSARA. Horta, Portugal.

Scientific journals

• Brito, R. S., Martinho, M.C., Almeida, M.C., Fernandes, M.,  Ferreira, S. (2022). Aligning financial and technical procedures for the  determination of urban drainage assets’ current and replacement values.  Water Policy, IWA Publishing, 24(7), 1109-1123.  https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.276.
• Beceiro, P., Brito, R.S.,  Galvão, A. (2022). Assessment of the contribution of Nature-Based  Solutions (NBS) to urban resilience: application to the case study of  Porto. Ecological Engineering 175(6):106489. DOI:  10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106489
• Brito, R.S., Almeida, M.C.,  Ribeiro, A.S. (2022). Enhancing hydraulic data reliability in sewers.  Water Practice and Technology, IWA Publishing (2022) 17 (1): 431–444.   https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2021.093
• Brito, R.S., Almeida, M.C.,  Silva, N., Barreto, S., Veríssimo, F. (2022). Assessing intermittent  saline inflows in urban water systems. Water Science and Technology  (2022) 85 (1): 90–103. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2021.622 IP3
• Batac,  T., Brown, K., Brito, R.S., Takesue, N., Cranston, I. (2021). An  enabling environment for asset management through public policy. Water  2021, 13(24), 3524.
• Brito, R. S., Alegre, H., Machado, P.  (2020). Strategic Asset Management approach for planning investment in a  large-scale irrigation system. Water Supply (2020) 20 (6): 2165–2174.
• Cardoso,  M.A, Brito, R. S., Pereira, C., Gonzalez, A., Stevens, J., Telhado,  M.J. (2020). RAF - a tool to support cities' action planning.  Sustainability 2020, 12 (6), 2349. 64 pp.
• Cardoso, M.A.,  Almeida, M.C., Brito, R.S., Gomes, J., Beceiro, P., Oliveira, A. (2020).  1D/2D stormwater modelling to support urban flood risk management in  estuarine areas: hazard assessment in the Dafundo case study.  Journal  Flood Risk Management 2020 13(4).  pp. 15
• Brito, R.S., Almeida,  M.C., Matos, J.S. (2017). Estimating flow data in wastewater drainage  systems using PLS. Urban Water Journal, 14(5), 467-474.
• Brito,  R.S., Lourenço, N., Matos, J., Pinheiro, H. (2016). Calibration transfer  between spectrometers for wastewater quality monitoring in drainage  systems. Applied Spectroscopy, 70(3), 443-454.

Other scientific and technical Activities

• Since 2023 – President of LIS-Water - Lisbon International Centre for Water
• 2019-2023  - Chair of the Strategic Asset Management Specialist Group of the  International Water Association (IWA SAM-SG). Vice-chair of the group  since 2023.
• 2018 - Specialist in Sanitary Engineering at the College of Civil Engineering of the Ordem dos Engenheiros.
• Since 2017 - Member of CT204 (Gestão de Ativos).
• Since 2016 - Member of ISO TC251 (Asset management).