Construct

PhD Students

  • Ahmad Qasim Mohammad Almomani

    PhD Student

    +351 920311541

    Energy efficiency; Energy management; Indoor environment quality; Natural ventilation and thermal comfort; Building simulation.
    BPG
  • Ahmed Tarek Fathy Hamed

    PhD Student

    Fibre reinforced concrete; HPFRC; Cement based composites; Tensile behavior; Nanosilica.
    LABEST
  • Alireza Ghayour Najafabadi

    PhD Student

    +351 932542015

    Composite structures; Green concrete; Buckling-restrained brace; Recycled aggregate concrete; Earthquake engineering.
    LESE
  • Amanda Diniz Barros

    PhD Student

    Energy efficiency; New materials; Infrared thermography; Thermal mortars; Waste.
    BPG
  • Amâncio da Cruz Filgueira Filho

    PhD Student

    Structures; Reinforced concrete; Walls; Finite element method; Seismic assessment.
    LESE
  • Amir Houshang Farivar Rad

    PhD Student

    +351 933403540

    Risk analysis; Time-dependent seismic resilience; Seismic sequences; Corrosion and environmental hazards effects; Industrial structures.
    LESE
  • Ana Sara Stingl Leal Araújo de Freitas

    PhD Student

    +351 225081478

    Green roofs; Hygrothermal behaviour; Building pathology; Moisture transfer; Hygrothermal simulation.
    BPG
  • Andréa Resende Souza

    PhD Student

    Reflective coatings; Durability; ETICS.
    BPG
  • Anelise Dick

    PhD Student

    Structural dynamics and vibration control; Structural analysis under static and dynamic loadings; Experimental and numerical analysis; Seismic engineering; Structural instabilities.
    LESE
  • António Manuel de Barros Figueiredo da Silva Mourão

    PhD Student

    Fatigue; Multiscale fatigue; Railway; Structural ingetrity; Steel structures.
    LESE
  • António Miguel Carvalho Guedes

    PhD Student

    Structural engineering; Machine learning; Monitoring systems; Railway systems; Artificial intelligence.
    LESE
  • António Pedro Galhardo Vieira Santos Ferreira

    PhD Student

    Wind turbines; Structural health monitoring; Machine learning; Computational fluid dynamics; Aeroelastic numeric models.
    VIBEST
  • Antônio Aanias de Mendonça

    PhD Student

    +351 225081988

    Tailings laboratory test; Rare earth mining; Mining & tailings; Critical states; Test on unconventional solis.
    GEO
  • Artur José Pereira da Silva

    PhD Student

    Dynamic of railway bridges; Modal identification; Experimental tests.
    LESE
  • Carlos Francisco Pecapedra Souza

    PhD Student

    Seismic behavior of structures; Reinforced concrete buildings; Modeling reinforced concrete walls; Risk assessment; Numerical simulation.
    LESE
  • Catarina Miranda Oliveira

    PhD Student

    Structural integrity monitoring; Structure populations; Artificial inteligence; Wind generators; Bridges.
    VIBEST
  • Chanalisa Ruggini Salvi

    PhD Student

    +351 938964974

    Dynamics of structures; Structural health monitoring of transport and energy infrastructure; Operational modal analysis; Damage and fatigue analysis; Research on new sensors.
    VIBEST
  • Cyrus Eshaghi

    PhD Student

    +351 910463136

    Performance-based seismic design; Reliability design and risk analysis; Structural health monitoring; Damage detection; Retrofitting structure.
    LESE
  • Danial Haselibozchaloee

    PhD Student

    +351 931473530

    Fatigue; Fracture mechanics; Offshore structures; Wind turbine; Steel structures.
    LESE
  • Davide Besenzon

    PhD Student

    +351 225081546

    Liquefaction; Tailings; In situ tests; Laboratory tests.
    GEO
  • Dóris Mafalda Dias Queiroz

    PhD Student

    Acoustic retrofit; Cork; Sound insulation.
    GEQUALTEC
  • Diogo Filipe Ramos Parracho

    PhD Student

    Drones; BIM; Digitalization in construction; Photogrammetric survey; Scan-to-BIM.
    GEQUALTEC
  • Elisa Losada Cerqueira

    PhD Student

    +351 913426851

    Cyclic loading; Biaxial bending; Experimental test; Steel structure; Numerical model.
    LESE
  • Frutuoso Tiago Cardoso de Sousa

    PhD Student

    Reinforced concrete; Precast bridges; Cracking; Creep and shrinkage; Fatigue.
    LABEST
  • Gonçalo Luís da Silva Mata

    PhD Student

    +351 961013760

    Wind turbines; Fatigue; Mooring lines; Numerical modelling; Structural monitoring.
    VIBEST
  • Iara Gripp Oliveira

    PhD Student

    Structural integrity; Microstructure; Mechanical properties; Metallic materials.
    LESE
  • Isabela da Silva Caetano

    PhD Student

    Liquefaction; Mine tailings; Tailings storage facilities; Alkaline activation; Stability analysis.
    GEO
  • Isabelle Ietka

    PhD Student

    Dynamic; Vibration; Bridges; Structural control; Instrumentation.
    VIBEST
  • Ivo Almino Gondim

  • Jaime Francisco de Sousa Resende

    PhD Student

    Nearly zero energy buildings; nZEB Applicability; Energy certification of buildings; nZEB regulations.
    BPG
  • João Daniel de Oliveira Arrojado Viana

    PhD Student

    Metallic railway bridges; Fatigue and fracture mechanics; Retrofitting; Finite element analysis.
    LESE
  • João Hildeberto Silva Teixeira

    PhD Student

    3D printing; Sustainable construction materials; Circular Economy; Digital construction.
    GEQUALTEC
  • João Manuel Coelho Rodrigues

    PhD Student

    Cable dynamics; Suspension bridges; Operational modal analysis; Structural health monitoring.
    VIBEST
  • João Nuno Silva

    PhD Student

    Fatigue; Probabilistic modeling; Fatigue accumulation; Railway bridges.
    LESE
  • José Alexandre Dias Neto

    PhD Student

    On-board monitoring systems; Vehicle-track interaction; Track maintenance condition; Safety assessment; Train running safety.
    LESE
  • Karim Fahfouhi

    PhD Student

    +351 915540359

    3D printing; Digital fabrication; Earthen materials; Construction; Additive manufacturing.
    LESE
  • Letícia Antunes Corrêa

    PhD Student

    +351 911785612

    Railway bridge decks; Precast beams; High-performance fibre reinforced concrete; Non-prestressed continuity connection.
    LABEST
  • Luís Carlos Ricardo Carvalho

    PhD Student

    Seismic vulnerability; Azores schools; Risk mitigation; Seismic assessment.
    LESE
  • Luís Ribeiro Jacques de Sousa

    PhD Student

    Machine learning; Natural language processing; Building information modelling; Procurement; Artificial inteligence.
    GEQUALTEC
  • Lucas Augusto de Carvalho

    PhD Student

    Beam-column joints; Strut-and-tie models; Seismic design; Pre-cast solutions; Railway bridges.
    LABEST
  • Manuel Dias de Jesus

    PhD Student

    Cultural heritage rehabilitation; Mortars; Building physics .
    BPG
  • Manuel Joaquim Sá Lopes Tavares Caló

    PhD Student

    Bituminous mixtures; Waste valorization; Sustainable materials; Laboratory testing.
    LESE
  • Marco Antonio Peixer Miguel de Antonio

    PhD Student

    Train-bridge interaction; High-speed rail; Bridge dynamics.
    LESE
  • Mariana Pereira da Fonseca

    PhD Student

    3D printing; Cement-based materials; Mixture design for 3DCP; Resource-efficiency; Upcycling strategies for waste valorisation.
    LABEST
  • Mário João Moreira Sobrinho

    PhD Student

    Structural concrete; Structural dynamics; Nonlinear finite element analysis; Soil-structure interaction; Operational modal analysis.
    LABEST
  • Mennaallah Gamal Eldine Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim

    PhD Student

    +351 225081896

    Ero energy neighbourhood; Renovation; Energy poverty; Renewable energy communities; Energy simulation and monitoring.
    BPG
  • Miriam Guadalupe López Chávez

    PhD Student

    +52 443 146 5496

    RC structures; Bridges; Seismic isolation; Seismic analysis; Structural engineering.
    LESE
  • Mohamed Noureldin Khedr Noury Adbelrahman Abushamma

    PhD Student

    Digital twins; BIM standards; Asset management; Performance-based contracts; Energy management.
    GEQUALTEC
  • Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

    PhD Student

    Conditional monitoring; Intelligent transport system; Damage identification; Railway engineering; Earthquake engineering.
    LESE
  • Nelson Félix Traquinho

    PhD Student

    Simulation and early warning of damage in railway tracks and bridges; Early warning of damages using vibrations signals of in-service vehicles; Early warning of damages using machine learning, signal processing and data analytics; Dynamic modeling of vehicle-structure-foundation systems; Dynamic monitoring systems onboard of in-service railway vehicles.
    LESE
  • Nelson Gomes Mica

    PhD Student

    +351 938304392

    Steel slag; ASIC; Expansibility; Resilient modulus; Physical model.
    GEO
  • Omar Khoder As Saadi

    PhD Student

    Suspension bridges; Cable dynamics; Suspenders damage and fatigue; Structural health monitoring; Numerical modelling.
    VIBEST
  • Raquel Carvalho Pedreiras

    PhD Student

    Seismic engineering; Existing structures; Seismic retrofit; Numerical modeling.
    LESE
  • Rashid Shahgholian

    PhD Student

    Soil damping measurement; Liquefaction; Cone penetration test (CPT); Standard penetration test (SPT).
    GEO
  • Reihane Shafie Panah

    PhD Student

    Earthquake engineering; Numerical models; Reinforced concrete structures.
    LESE
  • Rubens Diego Fernandes Alves

    PhD Student

    Railway; Geomechanics; Geotechnical engineering; Experimentation in geotechnics; Foundations.
    GEO
  • Sajjad Babamohammadi

    PhD Student

    Fatigue; Sub-modelling; Environmental modelling; Oceanic structures; Composite structures.
    LESE
  • Sergio Alonso Sunley Pocasangre

    PhD Student

    Seismic engineering; Confined masonry; Experimental characterization.
    LESE
  • Teresa Manuel Stingl Leal Araújo de Freitas

    PhD Student

    Cultural heritage; Climate change; Floods; Moisture monitoring; Drying.
    BPG
  • Yuri Bessa Cesarino

    PhD Student

    +351 934 866 734

    Reinforced concrete structures; Prestress concrete design; Seismic engineering; Structural steel design; Building performance.
    LESE