The most recent Management Bodies of the Portuguese Society of Earthquake Engineering (SPES) were elected for the 2023-2026 period. The Board includes two members of CERIS, namely Prof. Luís Guerreiro, as President of the Board, and the researcher Mónica Amaral Ferreira, as a Member of the Board.Read More
Eloísa Castilho, PhD student at IST and CERIS member, had the honour of being one of the winners of the “EuraSEM – ICEM20 Conference Attendance Awards 2023” during the 20th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM20) held on 2-7 July, 2023, at FEUPin Porto. This award, granted by the European Society for Experimental Mechanics (EuraSEM), recognizes research works that address scientific challenges related to experimental mechanics. Eloísa presented the work...Read More
The research team coordinated by Professor Fernando Branco is part of a partnership with DDN to develop SIMBA – Construction System with Reinforce Concrete Self-Supporting Blocks. This system focuses on the prefabrication of components for buildings, applying principles associated with the industrial assembly line. The project started in 2018.Professor Fernando Branco mentioned to Jornal de Negócios that the blocks of the SIMBA system are made in the factory, and then...Read More
Within the SHAREe “Sustainable Hydropower to Alleviate and Reduce Environmental externalities“ project funded by the EEA Grants Portugal, a group of researchers from CERIS, Isabel Boavida, Maria João Costa, and Renan Leite (FLUVIO PhD candidate), went to Trondheim, Norway to visit different hydropower schemes representing best practices in sustainable hydropower and to attend the Sustainability in Hydropower Conference SUS HP 2023.Before the conference we worked with our partners from SHAREe, Tor Bakken and Knut Alfredsen,...Read More
On May 12, 2023, took place in Boticas the EcoPeak4Fish Project Disclosure Public Session (Sessão Pública de Divulgação do Projeto EcoPeak4Fish). Participants from different entities, such as ICNF, Iberdrola, EDP Produção, Instituto Português de Malocologia, local associations (Comunidade Local dos Baldios de Covas do Barroso, #MovRioDouro, Boticas Parque Natureza e Biodiversidade) and academia, with professors from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and students from Instituto Politécnico de Bragança led...Read More
Open Call for one PhD Research Fellowship for the Doctoral Program in Transport Systems. The call is open from 15/06/2023 at 9:00am to 15/07/2023 5:00pm (Lisbon time).Minute: English version, Portuguese versionRead More
Rita Bento, Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources at Instituto Superior Técnico and member of CERIS, was honored by Ordem dos Engenheiros in the celebrations of the 2023 Regional Engineer’s Day, which took place on the 20th of May. CERIS congratulates Professor Rita Bento for her achievement!Read More
This study is an updated climate change trends analysis (from 1864 to 2021)—developed within the scope of the SCORE project, a Horizon-2020-funded research project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities—for a representative site of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. By using long ground-based daily records of rainfall and surface temperature, the analysis aimed to identify long-term and recent climate trends in rainfall and temperature, changes in extreme rainfalls, heatwaves,...Read More
Rui Colaço successfully concluded the Fulbright Grant at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Rui Colaço is a Ph.D. student in Territorial Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. His research deals with the firm (retail) location models in the context of urban planning while also considering the impacts of online shopping. The outcome is expected to produce relevant insights into the persistent patterns of the retail location that...Read More
The call is open from 15/12/2022 at 9:00am (Lisbon time) to 15/01/2023 5:00pm:https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/864406 https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/departamentos/decivil/projetos-de-investigacaoApplications should be submitted by email to the following address LinkRead More
The CERIS collaborator David Martins was awarded the 2021 Young Engineer Innovation Award (1st prize), attributed by the Portuguese Engineering Council (Ordem dos Engenheiros), for the research developed in his PhD project regarding the “Seismic behaviour of GFRP structures – Connections, plane and tri-dimensional frames”.We congratulate David for this outstanding achievement!Read More
It was on the 28th of October that took place the official launching of the FCT-funded project EcoPeak4Fish: An integrated approach to support self-sustaining fish populations downstream hydropower plants.This project is based on four fundamental elements: Ecology, Engineering and Economy acting together to ensure the sustainability of freshwater Ecosystems downstream of Small Hydropower Plants (SHP). The main goals of EcoPeak4Fish are three-fold: to evaluate the impacts of pulsed flows associated...Read More
07:00 UTC | 08:00 London | 09:00 Madrid | 12:30 New Delhi | 15:00 Beijing | 17:00 Sydney | 00:00 Los Angeles | 03:00 New YorkWednesday, 7 July 2021This session provides an open forum where interested particupants discuss the future of Instrumentation and Experimental Methods.All themes are welcome, including (but not restricted to):social impacts related to the nexus affordability/reliability of instrumentation;scientific issues such as the future development of data science...Read More
The 2018 and 2019 CERIS Open Day events were recognized in 2019 and 2020 as a Best Practice under the category of Research, Development and Innovation, by the 3rd and 4th editions of the Best practices Observatory (ObserIST) of Técnico-Lisboa.Read More
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