PERSONAL DATA

Juan Tomé Caires da Mata

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PROFESSIONAL STATUS

Assistant Researcher

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

2016 - Executive Master in Business Administration - EMBA, ISCTE

2013 - PhD in Civil Engineering, IST/UL

2007 - Master (pre-Bologna) in Structural Engineering, IST/UTL

2001 - Degree in Civil Engineering, IST/UTL

RELEVANT PUBLIC FUNCTIONS AND POSITIONS

2019 - Assistant Researcher

2019 - 2022 Guest Professor, ISEC-Lisboa (School of Business, Engineering and Aeronautics)

2014 - 2018 Post-Doctoral Fellow

2009 - 2013 PhD Fellow

2008 - 2009 Guest Professor, FCT/UL (Civil Engineering Department)

2004 -2009 Scientific Research Fellow

2002 - 2003 Structural Engineer

MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH / INTEREST

Structural safety control of concrete dams

Structural health monitoring

Pattern recognition and multivariate data analysis

Decision support systems

DEVELOPED ACTIVITY 

Monitoring the construction activities of the three dams of the Tâmega Electric Production System (Daivões, Gouvães and Alto Tâmega)

Dam safety control with manual measurement and automated data acquisition systems, including participation in more than 40 inspections, carried out in accordance with the Dam Safety Regulations

Development and implementation of new functionalities in gestBarragens (project co-financed by the PRIME program), a computerised information management system that allows support for all safety control activities of concrete dams in Portugal. The gestBarragens system is the result of a close collaboration between three Portuguese institutions: LNEC, INESC-ID and EDP Energias de Portugal

Collaboration in the Timbus project, co-financed by the European Commission under the 7th framework program and in the E-RIHS project, funded by HORIZON 2020

Support the Cape Verde National Water and Sanitation Agency in dam safety activities

Responsible for the pilot project for the Implementation of the Integrated Dam Safety Management System in the Matala dam, Angola

Participation as a co-opted member of the Dam Surveillance Technical Committee of the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD)

Development of scientific and technical communications, articles and books; editor of a scientific journal, review of scientific papers and participation as a jury in academic tests to obtain Master's and Doctor's degrees