PERSONAL DATA

Maria João de Brito Coelho

ORCID

CIENCIAVITAE

WEBOFSCIENCE

SCOPUS

PROFESSIONAL SITUATION

Assistant Researcher

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

PhD in Engineering Sciences, 2011 (Universidade de Técnica de Lisboa);

Degree in Geophysical Sciences, 1990 (Universidade de Lisboa)

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Assistant Researcher, since July 2011;

Research Assistant, June 2001 – June 2011

Research Trainee, August 1997 – May 2001

Research Fellow, June 1991 – July 1997

MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH / INTEREST

Engineering geology;

Geophysical methods applied to geotechnics, civil engineering, and environmental engineering;

Seismic methods;

GPR (Ground Penetrating RADAR);

Geophysical data processing, modelling, and inversion;

Geotechnical risk assessment;

Geological-geotechnical mapping

ACTIVITY DEVELOPED

Research programs and projects (research, development, and innovation activities) in the scientific area of engineering geology and in related areas;

Studies and consultancy in engineering geology, and environmental geotechnics, including geophysical methods applied to geotechnics, civil engineering, and environmental engineering;

Valorisation and transfer of technical and scientific knowledge;

Participation in the management of scientific activity.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Roque, A.; Coelho, M.J.; Murtinha, L. (2023) – Susceptibility to mass movements on the Southern Slope of Odivelas: methodology and factors to produce the Map (in Portuguese), 18º Congresso Nacional de Geotecnia, Évora, Portugal.

Coelho, M.J., Santos, J., Pereira, M. (2018) – Stacking of multilayout and multichannel surface-wave data on the f-k domain, Journal of Applied Geophysics 159, 93-107.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018.08.006.

Coelho, M.J., Mota, R., Morgado, A., Neves, J. (2018) – Time-lapse crosshole seismic tomography for characterisation and treatment evaluation of the Ribeiradio dam rock mass foundation, 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018), Porto.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351003629.

Coelho, M.J. (2011) – Improvements to the surface wave method for geotechnical engineering (in Portuguese), PhD thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal.