Apresentação Pessoal

Current position:
Emeritus Professor, University of Porto.

Former positions:
Full Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP).
Director of the Doctoral Program on Mechanical Engineering of FEUP. 
Director of the Master Course on Computational Mechanics of FEUP.
Associate Professor (FEUP), 1999-2005. Assistant Professor (FEUP), 1987-1999. Research Assistant (University of Swansea, Wales, U.K.), 1982-1986. Assistant (FEUP), 1978-1982.
Academic degrees: Habilitation, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 2005. Ph.D., Swansea University, United Kingdom,1986. Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 1976.

Research interests/Areas of scientific activity:
Non-Linear Computational Mechanics. Large Deformations in Elastoplasticity. Finite Element Architecture. Non-linear contact mechanics. Damage and Fracture Modelling. Modelling of Material Forming. Metal forming and glass forming. Multi-Scale modelling. Additive Manufacturing.

Other current positions:
President of APMTAC- Portuguese Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics Association.
Member of the General Council of IACM-International Association of Computational Mechanics.
Member of the Managing Board of the ECCOMAS- European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences.
Member of the General Assembly of the ECCOMAS- European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences.
Member of the Computational Solids & Structural Mechanics Technical Committee of ECCOMAS.


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