Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL DATA
António José Roque
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Senior Researcher
ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES
PhD in Civil Engineering – Soils, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France), 2001.
MSc in Engineering Geology, NOVA School of Science & Technology (Portugal), 1990.
Degree in Geological Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), 1985.
FUNCTIONS AND RELEVANT PUBLIC OFFICES
Guest Assistant Professor at the Lusófona University, since 2015.
Coordinator of the Operational Unit for Waste and Contaminated Soils in Geotechnics (UGeoAmb), since 2013.
MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST
Containment of waste and contaminated areas.
Reclamation of environmental liabilities.
Reuse and recycling of waste in geotechnical applications.
Urban geotechnics applied to ground movements and suitability for construction.
Laboratory and field tests.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACIVITY
Research work on the confinement capacity of clay liners and soil-bentonite slurry trench cutoff walls (permeability and transport of contaminants); and the technical feasibility of reusing and recycling waste in geotechnical works.
Studies and consultancy in environmental geotechnics: reclamation of environmental liabilities, land contamination, reuse and recycling of waste in geotechnical works, site studies for waste landfills, and laboratory and field tests.
Studies and consultancy in engineering geology: zoning of susceptibility to ground movements and suitability for construction in support of urban planning, slope stability, site studies, laboratory and field tests.
SCIENTIFIC ORIENTATION
Orientation and co-orientation of one PhD thesis (not yet concluded), four MSc thesis and thirteen traineeships (two of them foreigners) in cooperation with FCT/UNL, FC/UL, UM, Insa de Lyon, and Institution of Portuguese Engineers.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Theses:
Advective and diffusive transport of inorganic pollutants through compacted clay liners existing in the landfills. Application to Portuguese fine-grained soils (in French), PhD thesis, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (France), 2001.
In situ permeability tests in the saturated and non-saturated zones (in Portuguese), MSc thesis, NOVA School of Science & Technology (Portugal), 1990.
Books and book chapters:
Roque, A.J. (2017). Avaliação da perigosidade ambiental dos agregados reciclados (Capítulo 4). Materiais tratados e reciclados em infraestruturas de transporte, 1.ª edição, Eds. J. Neves, A. C. Freire e F. Batista, LNEC (Lisboa), pp. 49-71.
Roque, A.J. (2017). Aplicação de ASIC em aterro e pavimento (Capítulo 13). Materiais tratados e reciclados em infraestruturas de transporte, 1.ª edição, Eds. J. Neves, A. C. Freire e F. Batista, LNEC (Lisboa), pp. 215-238.
Roque, A.J. (2010). Geotecnia ambiental aplicada ao estudo dos solos argilosos portugueses. Ciências Geológicas-Ensino, Investigação e sua História, Eds. A. Galopim de Carvalho, F. Barriga, L. Mendes-Victor, F. Noronha e A. Ribeiro. Associação Portuguesa de Geólogos e Sociedade Geológica de Portugal. Vol. II / cap. III - Geologia de Engenharia, pp. 387-402.
Fortunato, E., Pardo de Santayana, F. e Roque, A.J. (2006). Current state of the re-use of waste materials in geotechnical works in Portugal. ITG 26, Informações Científicas e Técnicas de Geotecnia. Lisboa: LNEC. 31 p.
Papers in international scientific periodicals with referees:
Roque, A. J., Silva, A. P. F. and Almeida, R. (2022). Drainage capacity of crushed concrete and steel slag to landfill leachate and water - Comparison with basalt and limestone. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Special issue on “Material cycles in construction works”, Springer, vol. 24, n. 6, pp. 2385–2400. DOI: 10.1007/s10163-022-01486-7.
Roque, A. J., Paleologos, E. K, O’Kelly, B. C., Tang, A. M., Reddy, K. R., Vitone, C., Mohamed, A.-M. O., Koda, E., Goli, V. S. N. S., Vieira, C. S., Fei, X., Sollecito, F., Vaverková, M. D., Plötze, M., Petti, R., Podlasek, A, Puzrin, A. M., Cotecchia, F., Osiński, P., Mohammad, A., Singh, P., Gamal, M. El, Farouk, S., Nahyan, M. T. Al, Mickovski, S. B. and Singh, D. N. (2022). Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for green economy. Environmental Geotechnics, ICE Publishing, vol. 9, n. 2, pp. 68-84. DOI: 10.1680/jenge.21.00091.
Hale, S. E., Roque, A. J., Okkenhaug, G., Sørmo, E., Lenoir, T., Carlsson, C., Kupryianchyk, D., Flyhammar, P., Žlender, B. (2021). The reuse of excavated soils from construction and demolition projects: limitations and possibilities. Sustainability Jounal, MDPI, vol. 13, n. 11, pp. 1-15. DOI: 10.3390/su13116083.
Roque, A. J. and Monteiro, V. (2021). Hazardous waste on waste rock of São Pedro da Cova coal mine (Portugal): site reclamation. Environmental Geotechnics Journal, ICE Publishing, 0 0:0, 1-13. DOI: 10.1680/jenge.20.00013.
Freire, A. C., Neves, J., Roque, A. J., Martins, I. M. and Antunes, M. L. (2021). Feasibility study of milled and crushed reclaimed asphalt pavement for application in unbound granular layers. Road Materials and Pavement Design, Taylor & Francis Group, vol. 22, n. 7, pp. 1500-1520. DOI: 10.1080/14680629.2019.1701539.
Roque, A. J., Rodrigues, G., Silva, A. P. F. (2020). Re-cycling of construction and demolition waste and steel slag Characterization of the durability. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Springer, vol. 22, n. 6, pp. 1699-1711. DOI: 10.1007/s10163-020-01061-y.
Gomes Correia, A., Roque, A. J., Ferreira, S. M. R. and Fortunato, E. (2012). Case study to promote the use of industrial byproducts: The relevance of performance tests. Journal of ASTM International, American Society for Testing Materials, vol. 9, n. 2, pp. 1-18. DOI: 10.1520/JAI103705.
Roque, A. J. and Didier, G. (2006). Calculating hydraulic conductivity of fine-grained soils to leachates using linear expressions. Engineering Geology Journal, Elsevier, vol. 85, n. 1-2, pp. 147-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2005.09.034.
OTHER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
Writing reports, technical notes and expert reports of LNEC.
Writing technical regulations (LNEC specifications on waste recycling).
Guest lecture at national and international scientific events
Teaching in universities and advanced training courses.
Participation in national and international juries (Degrees, MSc, PhD), and competitions at LNEC, university, among others.
Peer reviewer in national and international journals.
Coordination and participation in national and international research projects.
Coordination and participation in national and international technical committees and working groups.
Coordination and participation in organizing committees for national and international scientific events.
OTHER INFORMATION
Environmental Geotechnics Prize – Best paper 2022 of Environmental Geotechnics Journal - Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing (Awarded in 2023).
Manuel Rocha award - Honorable Mention of Portuguese Geotechnical Society for PhD thesis completed in quadrennium 2000/2003 (Awarded March 2006).
Portuguese Geotechnical Society award - Honorable Mention for MSc theses completed in biennium 1989/90 (Awarded October 1991)
President of the Board of Portuguese Environmental Geotechnics Commission of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2012-2020).
Coordinator of the Technical Committee on Waste Recycling in Geotechnical Works of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2004-2012).
Secretary General of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (2004-2008).
Senior Member of the Institution of Portuguese Engineers (since 1986).