Phd in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon (November 2012 - July 2018);
Degree (pre-Bologna) in Electrical Engineering, Faculdade de Ciências de Engenharia e Tecnologia, Universidade Independente, Lisbon (September 2001 - July 2005);
Degree (pre-Bologna) in Computer Engineering, Faculdade de Ciências de Engenharia e Tecnologia, Universidade Independente, Lisbon (September 1996 - July 2001).
Functions and Relevant Public Offices
Assistant Researcher, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Lisbon (December 2020 - present);
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Lisbon (October 2018 - November 2020);
Doctoral Research Fellow, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Lisbon (March 2013 - March 2017);
Junior Research Fellow, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Lisbon (January 2008 - March 2013);
Professor, Faculdade de Ciências de Engenharia e Tecnologia, Universidade Independente, Lisbon (October 2005 - April 2006);
Telecommunications Engineer; Siemens SA, Amadora (December 2000 - September 2002).
Areas of Research / Interest
Distributed systems, focusing on IIoT applications in the extended domain of Civil Engineering;
Fault-tolerant measurement systems aimed at applications in the broad field of Civil Engineering;
Sensor Self-validation in Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) applications;
Assessment of measurement uncertainties in complex systems;
Automatic systems aimed at reducing the need for human intervention in current laboratory tests;
Automatic SHM data acquisition and processing systems.
Research and Professional Activity
R&D of measuring instruments, testing equipment, data acquisition networks and other systems aimed at applications in Civil Engineering;
Development of SHM data acquisition and processing software;
R&D and technological consultancy relating to Scientific Instrumentation systems for Civil Engineering in the areas of transduction, actuation, control and data acquisition;
Collaboration in the specification, selection, and corrective maintenance of the Scientific Instrumentation of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering.