PROFESSIONAL RANKS OR ACTIVITY:
• Research Officer at LNEC (National Laboratory of Civil Engineering), since April of 2009
• Research Assistant at LNEC, from July of 1997 to April 2009
• Junior research fellow at LNEC, from February 1993 to July 1997
• 2nd class Engineer at Lisbon City Hall (GEP/DAPP), from March 1992 to February 1993
• Internship at Socotec Portugal, from January 1990 to December 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Retaining structures - stability analysis; numerical modeling, construction phases; monitoring and interpretation.
• Ground Anchors: their behavior, technology and corrosion protection, construction, tests, instrumentation, monitoring and control.
• Study of the mechanical behavior of anchors, the problems associated with the study of creep and its magnitude.
• Methods of inspection and detection of anchors corrosion.
• Implementation of the automatic tests system (SEA) for current use.
• Result analysis of anchor load tests using the General Test Method.
• Ground behavior analysis; analysis of slope stability; security control; supervision of construction and instrumentation.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES:
• Cooperation in 3 programmed scientific research projects, LNEC
• Cooperation in 40 LNEC’s contract research projects; such as the expert analysis of the pathologies observed in the anchored structure ME41.1, at Bustelo
• Preparation or collaboration in preparing proposals for studies, LNEC
• Revisions and expert reports on geotechnical projects; such as: i) Modernization of the North Line - expert report analysis of multiple projects execution of the contention works and the embankments; ii) Encosta das Portas do Sol, at Santarém
• Consulting, expertise, technical support and monitoring of geotechnical works
• Scientific expertise, reports and consulting, for Portuguese courts of law
• Cooperation with the LNEC’s “Grupo Auditor”, in the quality issue
• Cooperation in anchors system tests; such as the North-South railroad line. Entrecampos-Chelas extension. Expert report about two anchors system tests
• Programming and automatic data processing
• Slope stability analyses
• Ground anchors expertise’s, consulting and technical support
SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISIONS:
• Member of the selection board of MSc in Geological Engineering, FCTUNL
• Member of several scientific commissions of scientific meetings
PUBLISHED WORKS:
The editorial activity developed is disclosed in 180 publications that are spread through:
• 1 PhD thesis
• 1 MSc thesis
• 70 Technical Reports (LNEC)
• 1 Scientific information, entitled “Ground anchors design”
• 20 Scientific papers in national and international scientific meetings
• 3 Papers in national journals
• 5 Posters presented in international scientific meetings
• 79 Other Technical notes or reports
OTHER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITY:
• 9 communications in scientific meetings (with papers), and 4 lectures
• Participation in 14courses
• Cooperation in 46 conferences or seminars
• Attendance of 3 training sessions
• Assistance in the development of scientific activities in 18 scientific meetings, such as papers reviewer
• Coordinator of the Subcommittee SC 05/07 - Anchors, of the technical committee for Geotechnics in Civil Engineering CT156 CEN TC288
• Coordinator of the Subcommittee SC 10 - Anchors, of the technical committee for Geotechnics in Civil Engineering CT156 CEN TC288
• Member of the Scientific technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization, in the ISO 22477-5:2018, ISO/TC 182/WG 3 “eCommittee” “Testing of geotechnical structures: Testing of grouted anchors”
• Integrates the Operational Nucleus (NO) of the workgroup GT07 - Geotechnics, of the PTPC, since March 2013
• Member of the Scientific Board of LNEC, since April 2009
• Member of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG) since 1993, and of the Supervisor Board of SPG in the quadrennial 2000-2004
