Plenary Lectures

Bio: Jose Adam is Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València – UPV. He and his team perform research in the field of structural engineering, always aiming to improve the resilience of buildings and bridges. Although he considers himself an experimental researcher, he always combines his experiments on full-scale structures with advanced computational simulations. Prof. Adam is a founding partner of the spin-off company Calsens, Editor-in-Chief of Construction and Building Materials, and holder of two ERC Grants for the amount of €2.6 million. Two of his works have been published in Nature magazine, one of which was featured on the cover of the issue.

Bio: Pedro Camanho (MSc in Mechanical Engineering, UPorto, 1995) received his PhD in Composite Materials from the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK, in 1999. In the same year he joined the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management as Director of the Structural Integrity Unit and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto as Assistant Professor. Since 2014 he has been Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto. Pedro Camanho is former President of the Associated Laboratory in Energy, Transportation and Aerospace (LAETA). Between 2015-2024 he was Vice-President of INEGI. Pedro Camanho was member of the executive board of the Council of Associate Laboratories (CLA).

Bio: Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. President of ICOMOS ISCARSAH Heritage Structures Committee. Experienced in non-destructive testing, advanced experimental and numerical techniques, innovative repair and strengthening techniques, and earthquake engineering. Consultant on 200 monuments / 20 UNESCO WHS. Revision leader of the European masonry code (EN 1996-1-1). Coordinator of the MSc on Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions for 20 years. Editor of the International Journal of Architectural Heritage. Author of “Historic Construction and Conservation” and “Finite Element Analysis for Building Assessment”, Routledge (2019 and 2022). Awarded an ERC Grant to develop an integrated seismic assessment approach for heritage buildings. Coordinated an MSCA-DN on sustainable building lime applications.

Bio: Belén Riveiro (Cotobade, Pontevedra, 1983) is a tenured lecturer in the Department of Materials Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Construction at the University of Vigo. She received her PhD from the University of Vigo in 2011, with European Distinction and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award. She joined the Department of Materials Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Construction at the University of Vigo in 2012, after holding a Lecturer position at Newcastle University (UK) since 2011. She has undertaken postdoctoral research stays at prestigious universities, including the University of Minho (2012 and 2014), the University of Cambridge (2015), and Delft University of Technology (2016).