Invited keynote & lectures

• Achievements & challenges in the serviceability and safety of bridges & viaducts supported by Structural Health Monitoring techniques, 2nd International Conference on Health Monitoring of Civil & Marine Structures HeaMES 2019, 23rd- 24th May 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom. • Asset management supported by Finite Element models devoted to the short- and long-term assessment of prestressed concrete bridges, 12th International DIANA Users Meeting, 11th -12th October 2018, Porto, Portugal. • Structural monitoring of Lezíria Bridge since its construction, Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), 21st March 2018, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

Invited oral presentations (most

relevant)

• Achievements and challenges in the serviceability and safety of bridges and viaducts supported by Structural Health Monitoring techniques, Seminar, ibk - Institute of Structural Engineering, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland, 8th March, 2019 • Ponte da Lezíria - Reabilitação do Sistema de Monitorização Estrutural e Capitalização para a Gestão do Ativo, BRISA Group, São Domingos de Rana, Lisbon, Portugal, 22th January 2019 (invited presentation for the Executive Boarding) • Development of a novel pro-active SHM tool devoted to bridge maintenance based on damage identification by FE analysis and probabilistic methods, TNO – Innovation for life, Delft, Netherlands, 14th September 2018 • Advanced FE modelling for long-span and prestressed concrete bridges – Challenges & Limitations, TNO – Innovation for life, Delft, Netherlands, 29th March 2018 • Structural Health Monitoring of Prestressed Concrete Bridges – The case study of Lezíria Bridge, Hewson consulting engineers, Guildford, United Kingdom 8th February 2018 (by invitation) • My potential contribution to the fib T 2.1 Serviceability Models, IFFSTAR, Paris, France, 26th August, 2017 • Long-term performance of prestressed concrete bridges using Diana software, webinar for DIANA FEA BV, 31st May 2017, Delft, Netherlands • Structural Health Monitoring of Prestressed Concrete Bridges – The case study of Lezíria Bridge, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom 22nd March 2017. • Long-term performance of prestressed concrete bridges using Diana software, webinar for DIANA FEA BV, 24th October 2016, Delft, Netherlands. • Structural Health Monitoring of Prestressed Concrete Bridges – The case study of Lezíria Bridge, CEREMA, Sourdun, France 12th April 2016. • Structural Health Monitoring of Bridges Challenges in data processing / fusion, Imperial College, London, UK, 26th November 2013. • Structural Health Monitoring at the network level Transport Infrastructure Systems, COWI, Lyngby, Denmark, 8th November 2013. • Structural Health Monitoring at the network level MDP3 – Transport Infrastructure Systems SmartEN ITN IPR & Entrepreneurship Workshop, 11th April 2013, BAM, Berlin, Germany. • FE Modelling of the structural behaviour of Lezíria Bridge based on experimental data. University of Porto 2011, Porto, Portugal. • Monitoring System of Lezíria Bridge - Conception and implementation. Public research session.  University of Aveiro 2009, Aveiro, Portugal. • And if one day I was a Civil Engineer. How would it be? Invited lecture for high school students.  High school Vila Meã, Amarante 2009, Portugal. • Open days – disclosure of the activities of the laboratory LABEST to high school students. Invited lecture to talk about my PhD activities. University of Porto 2009, Porto, Portugal. • Open days – disclosure of the activities of the laboratory LABEST to high school students. Invited lecture to talk about my research activities. University of Porto 2005, Porto, Portugal.