Mining Engineer (IST, 1963), Master of Science (Univ. Minnesota, USA, 1970), PhD (1971), Aggregated (1973), Full Professor (1974), Free Professor, USP, Brazil (1983), Full Professor IST(1994). Head of Geotechnical Center since 2000. Main teaching and research topics: surface and underground mining, rock mechanics and environmental geotechnics. Consulting activities in Portugal, Angola, Spain, Italy, Poland, Peru and China. Member of two Expert Committees of the European Union in Brussels, during 12 years. Supervision of 15 PhD programs and more than 30 MSc. More than 300 technical publications.
Publications
Volcanic Rocks and Soils - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Volcanic Rocks and Soils, 2015 | 2015
International Journal of Geomechanics | 2014
M.J.A. Leal-Gomes
True Triaxial Testing of Rocks | 2012
Archives of Mining Sciences | 2011
International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials | 2011
V.F.N. Torres
P. Falcão Neves
Q. Xie