Biography
Graduation in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in the year 1989/1990. During the course was: in 1993 a part-time computer analyst and programmer at UPS – United Parcel Services; and, between 1993 and 1995, computer monitor at CIDEC - IST.
At the beginning of 1995 began his collaboration with Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Lda, where participated in the design of the Fertagus railway line, connection to the south of the Tagus river and the new track in the north of the Tagus tiver (current railway line passing through 25 de Abril Bridge). In September 1997, enrolled in the Master's Degree in Structural Engineering at IST, which he completed in
early 2000 with a thesis in the area of computational mechanics, entitled "Stress Finite Elements". In 2005 he enrolled as a PhD student at IST and in 2010 he obtained his PhD with the thesis entitled Adaptive Stress Field Models.
Since 1998 he has collaborated with JSJ, Consultoria e Projectos de Engenharia, Lda, a company in the field of structural engineering, and in 2005 he became a partner of the company. Between 1998 and the present day, he has developed several structural projects of different size and complexity, participated in fib working groups, (collaboration in the publication of 3 bulletins), was the author of several articles in national and international scientific congresses (in 2008 he received the Ferry Borges Prize in the category of the best article written in Portuguese) and teaches several courses in structural engineering.
He is currently an Invited Assistant Professor at IPS and Invited Assistant Professor at IST, partner of JSJ and convener of WP224 at fib (where he recently published the fib bulletin 100 "Design and assessment with strut-and-tie models and stress fields: from simple calculations to detailed numerical analysis").