Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA
Jónatas Valença
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Assistant Research
ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES
PhD in Civil Engineering, specialty of Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Univ. of Coimbra, 2012.
Master’s in Civil Engineering, specialty of Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Univ. of Coimbra, 2006.
Degree in Civil Engineering, Univ. of Coimbra, 2003.
FUNCTIONS AND RELEVANT PUBLIC OFFICES
· Member (secretary) of the ICWG II/Ib: Digital Construction, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), 2022-2026
· Member of the TG4.4. TG4.4 - Restoration of heritage in exposed concrete, at fib, Fédération internationale du béton, 2022-2026.
· Assistant Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, 2023-.
· Associated Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Lusófona University, 2022-2024.
· Assistant Research at IST-ID, University of Lisbon, 2019-2024.
· Post-Doctoral position at IST-ID, University of Lisbon, 2015-2018.
· Assistant Professor (invited) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 2016-2017.
· Assistant Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, 2008-2014.
· Founding Partner and Head of the Assessment and Monitoring of Structures sector at SBE – Science-Based Engineering, 2012-2014.
· Assistant Lecture at Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 2006-2007.
MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST
· Structural Health Monitoring
· Computer Vision
· Concrete Heritage
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
My research interests lie in Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring and Characterization; and Conservation of Structures and Built Heritage. In this scope, I have been developed tools based on computer vision (also applying machine and deep learning), including processing hyper and multispectral images.