Tuesday, 12/20/2016
Paulo Pereira, Full
Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC) of the EEUM, has been
re-elected as Director of the Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction
(CTAC) of the EEUM on the 13th December.
Professor Paulo Pereira’s appointment as Director of CTAC follows a first
mandate. The new Director will perform functions during the triennium
2016-2019.
To Paulo Pereira, the re-election is an opportunity that aims “the
commitment to consolidate and strengthen this centre, which can only be
achieved with work”, he refers. “Our centre is classified as «good», but we
want to go further. I believe that, globally, looking at the same point, we
will be able to affirm ourselves and seek another classification for the
centre”, he believes.
Paulo Pereira completed his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 1980
at the University of Porto and his PhD also in Civil Engineering at the
University of Minho. He is a professor and researcher in the area of transport
and develops his activity in the DEC of the EEUM.
He was President of the EEUM from 2010 to 2013. He also founded and
chaired the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of
Transport Infrastructures (iSMARTi), from 2004 to 2012. He is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and member of the Scientific
Commission of the PhD Programme in Civil Engineering of the UMinho since 2009.
Paulo Pereira supervised more than a dozen masters’ theses and 12 doctoral
theses, having published over 235 papers in national and international
scientific journals of recognised merit.
The CTAC seeks to deliver cross-disciplinary science in sustainable
development of cities and territory. The applied R&D methodologies include
computer simulation, laboratory testing, physical modelling and field works.
+ info: www.ctac.uminho.pt/