2024

2024.09 | My journal paper Structural response of a concrete cable-stayed bridge under thermal loads published in Engineering Structures journal achieved the mark of 50 citations on Scopus.

2024.07 | Participation as attendee in the Internacional Conference on Machine Learning 2024, Vienna, Austria.

2024.07 | Participation as attendee in the DOSH Conference Summer 2024 organized by Bosch Energy and Building Solutions, Microsoft Munich, Munich, Germany.

2023

2023.10 | Participation as attendee in the Data Makers Fest, Porto, Portugal.

2023.10 | My journal paper Damage detection under environmental and operational effects using cointegration analysis - Application to experimental data from a cable-stayed bridge published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing journal achieved the mark of 50 citations on Scopus.

2023.09 | Participation as attendee in the 7th Intelligent Maintenance Conference, Lausanne and EPFL, Switzerland.

2023.06 | Participation as attendee in FeuerTrutz 2023 - International Trade Fair with Congress for Preventive Fire Protection, Nuremberg, Germany.

2023.06 | Participation as attendee in DOSH Conference Summer 2023 at Bosch Energy and Building Solutions, Grasbrunn, Munich, Germany.

2023.05 | Publication of the journal paper An Online Anomaly Detection Approach for Fault Detection on Fire Alarm Systems in Sensors journal. Co-authors: Rita P. Ribeiro, Inês Dutra and Arlete Rodrigues.

2023.03 | Publication of the book chapter Load Tests on Bridges. Co-authors: Mário Pimentel, Joaquim Figueiras, Filipe Cavadas, Carlos Félix, Carlos Rodrigues and Bruno J. Afonso Costa.

2022

2022.12 | I participated as speaker in the concluding public event of the Safe Cities Project representing the Sub-Project 2 (Data Mining and Machine Learning) team. The event took place at FEUP, Porto, Portugal.

2022.11 | I concluded my MSc in Data Science at FCUP with the public defense of my thesis entitled Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0. Supervisors: Rita P. Ribeiro and João Gama.

2022.07 | I started a new position as a Data Scientist at Bosch in the Remote Services team of the Fire Systems Department.

2022.06 | Publication of the conference paper An Online Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance Approach for Railway Switches, ECML PKDD 2022: Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Co-authors: Rita P. Ribeiro, Bruno Veloso and João Gama.

2022.05 | Erasmus+ at Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

2022.03 | I started a new position as Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences in the scope of the Safe Cities Project, sub-project 2: Data Mining and Machine Learning.

2021

2021.10 | Participation as attendee in the Summer School on Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0 organized by Halmstad University and University of Porto.

2021.09 | I started working on the European research project eXplainable Predictive Maintenance (XPM) in the scope of the development of my Master’s thesis in Data Science at FCUP.

2021.07 | Publication of the journal paper Bridge damage detection using cointegration and multivariate data analysis: performance comparation based on a real case study [in Portuguese] in Revista Portuguesa de Engenharia de Estruturas. Co-authors: Mário Pimentel and Joaquim Figueiras.

2021.04 | I started working on the Safe Cities Project, sub-project 2: Data Mining and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences as Research Fellow.

2020

2020.09 | I started my Master’s degree on Data Science at University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science.

2020.08 | End of my position as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Lusófona University, Faculty of Engineering, Lisbon, to embrace a career in Data Science.

2020.02 | Elected member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Councils of the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University.

2020.01 | Publication of the journal paper Damage detection under environmental and operational effects using cointegration analysis - Application to experimental data from a cable-stayed bridge in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing journal. Co-authors: Mário Pimentel and Joaquim Figueiras.

2019

2019.09 | I started a new position as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Lusófona University, Faculty of Engineering, Lisbon.

2019.08 | Publication of the journal paper Online early damage detection and localisation using multivariate data analysis: Application to a cable-stayed bridge in Structural Control Health Monitoring journal. Co-authors: Mário Pimentel and Joaquim Figueiras.

2019.07 | I concluded my PhD in Structural Engineering at FEUP with the public defense of my thesis entitled Smart Structural Health Monitoring Applied to Management and Conservation of Bridges. Supervisors: Mário Pimentel and Joaquim Figueiras.

2018

2018.12 | Publication of the journal paper Structural response of a concrete cable-stayed bridge under thermal loads in Engineering Structures journal. Co-authors: Mário Pimentel and Joaquim Figueiras.

2018.10 | Participation as speaker in the 2018 CONSTRUCT PhD Workshop. Title of the presentation: Smart Structural Health Monitoring Applied to Management and Conservation of Bridges.

2018.10 | Participation as keynote speaker in the 12th International DIANA Users Meeting, Porto, FEUP. Title of the presentation: Structural response of a concrete cable-stayed bridge under thermal loads.

2017

2017.12 | Participation as speaker in the 8th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII 2017), Brisbane, Australia. Title of the presentation and published paper: Early damage detection using multivariate data-driven approaches - application to experimental data from a cable-stayed bridge.

2017.06 | Publication of the conference paper Damage detection through continuous monitoring of the response of a cable-stayed bridge to temperature variations, VVI Conference ACHE, Coruña, Spain.

2016

2016.11 | Participation as speaker in the conference Betão Estrutural 2016, Coimbra and University of Coimbra, Portugal. Title of the presentation and published paper: Análise e simulação da resposta estrutural de uma obra de arte atirantada sob ação térmica.

2016.07 | Participation as speaker in the 8th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2016), Bilbao, Spain. Title of the presentation and published paper:Evaluation of data-driven methods for damage detection under environmental effects – application to a cable-stayed bridge.

2015

2015.07 | Participation as attendee in the International Conference on Multi-Span Large Bridges, Porto, Portugal.

2014

2014.11 | Participation as speaker in the conference “5ª Jornadas Portuguesas de Engenharia de Estruturas”, Lisbon and LNEC, Portugal. Title of the presentation and published paper: Load Test of the Corgo Bridge [in Portuguese].

2013

2013.11 | Participation as Speaker in the conference “55º Congresso Brasileiro do Concreto”, Gramado, Brazil. Title of the presentation and published paper: STayMensus: A Tool for Acquisition and Analysis of Tension Forces in Stay Cables.

2013.07 | I actively participated on the organization and coordination of the Load Test of the Corgo Bridge, Vila Real. I was responsible for the analysis and processing of the data gathered during the load test.

2013.04 | I started my PhD in Structural Engineering at FEUP, Department of Civil Engineering.

2012

2012.10 | 2nd place ex-eaquo in the Prize “Jovens Mestres” attributed by GPBE to the Master’s thesis Finite Element Modeling of the Constructive Stages of a Cable-Stayed Bridge [in Portuguese].

2012.10 | Participation as Speaker in the conference “Betão Estrutural 2012”, Porto and FEUP, Portugal. Title of the presentation and published paper: Finite Element Modelling of the Constructive Stages of a Cable-Stayed Bridge [in Portuguese].

2012.10 | PhD Grant attributed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

2012.09 | I started a position as Research Fellow at the Department of Civil Engineering of FEUP, during which I was responsible for designing the structural health monitoring system of the stay-cables of a cable-stayed bridge (Corgo Bridge).

2012.07 | I completed the integrated Master’s in Civil Engineering, branch of Structures, at FEUP with the defense of the thesis Finite Element Modeling of the Constructive Stages of a Cable-Stayed Bridge [in Portuguese]. Supervisors: Miguel Ferraz, Rui Carneiro de Barros and Joaquim Figueiras.