Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon University, Portugal. PhD in Civil Engineering by IST, in 2009 with the thesis Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Marls (Manuel Rocha Award 2013). MSc in Structural Engineering in 2003 (MOP Award 2005). Has 32 papers in international ISI/Scopus journals, 1 book, 4 book chapters in international publications and more than 50 conference papers. Invited for 8 lectures (2 national and 6 international). PI of three National Research Projects (one ongoing) and member of several national research projects. Participation in consultancy projects for exterior entities. Responsible for 4 Advanced Training courses in Civil Engineering organized by FUNDEC. Member of the reviewer board of ISI journal Engineering Geology, and reviewer for several ISI journals. Member of scientific committees of several international conferences. Portuguese representative on the Technical Committee TC106 - Unsaturated Soils - of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, ISSMFE. Main research interests are focused on the Electro-Chemo-Hydro-mechanical behaviour of clays and structured materials considering their degree of saturation, constitutive modeling of natural and artificially cemented geomaterials considering structure loss caused by stress and suction cycles, soil treatment techniques including biocementation, soil suction measurement in situ and in the laboratory and numerical simulation of soil-atmosphere interaction considering the unsaturated behaviour of soils. Supervisor of 7 PhD thesis (3 ongoing), 49 MSc theses and 1 Post-doc student.