Assistant Professor at the Civil Engineering Department, University of Minho and researcher at the ISISE Research Centre. He holds a PhD in Geotechnics and develops research in the topics of asset management and monitoring of geotechnical structures, soil improvement with sustainable binders and advanced underground structures modelling. He is coauthor of more than 220 scientific documents (papers in journal and conferences and book chapters – h-index of 30 in Scopus), participated in 37 research projects (10 as Principal Investigator) and holds 2 patents. He was the CEO of the Institute for Bio-Sustainability of the University of Minho from 2014 and 2021 and is currently a member of the General Council of UMinho. He was founder of a start-up (LEVEL) in the field of asset management and monitoring of geotechnical structures and is co-author of two softwares in these fields, namely LEVEL-AMS (asset management) and SENSING (monitoring of geotechnical structures).
