2025 Speakers
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Nuno Dinis CortiçosUniversity of Lisbon, PortugalNuno Dinis Cortiços is Professor and Chair on Building's Energy Certification at the Department of Technologies in Architecture, Urbanism and Design at Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade de Lisboa; Ph.D in Building Science and active member in Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD) associated to Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). As Researcher focuses on building’s renovation, autonomous maintenance systems, sensor and nano-technology applied to maintenance, building’s performance and renovation's simulations on buildings stock, and maintenance accuracy applied to Unesco heritage; presenting and publishing the outcomes, mainly, at Scopus Conferences and Elsevier Journals. Board technical member at “Building and Environmental”; Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc (ARCC); and, European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE). Other accomplishments, Vice-President of the Faculty’s Board, responsible for Financial Management and Maintenance; Building Supervisor on quality and warranty; and Team Leader on architecture designs; and, Judicial Technical Consultant on construction quality. |
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Marta CalzolariUniversity of Ferrara, ItalyMarta Calzolari is Associate Professor at the
Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara. From
2021 to 2024 she was Assistant Professor at the Department of
Architecture of the University of Ferrara. From 2019 to 2021 she
was Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering and
Architecture of the University of Parma. Since 2009 at the
Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara she is a
member of the Architettura>Energia Research Centre, a research
hub working on building sustainability where she participates at
the research’s activities and at the coordination. |
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Prof. Dr. Diogo RibeiroPolytechnic of Porto, PortugalDiogo Ribeiro is Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP-IPP) and holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering (2002), a Master in Structural Engineering (2005) and a PhD in Civil Engineering (2012), all from the University of Porto. He is Director of the Bachelor course in Civil Engineering of ISEP (since 2014) and Director of the Postgraduate Programs in BIM Coordination (since 2019) and Prefabrication in Concrete (since 2020). He is a regular invited teacher on Civil Engineering master and postgraduate courses on University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Federal University of Ouro Preto (Brazil). He is also specialist in Metrology by the Portuguese Order of Chartered Engineers (2018) and Integrated Member of the Institute of R&D in Structures and Construction (CONSTRUCT). His main research interests are related to remote inspection, computer vision, artificial intelligence, automatic calculation of structures, Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital construction, digital railways, railway infrastructures, structural testing and experimentation, model updating and validation, and damage identification. Diogo Ribeiro was coordinator or researcher in more than 20 R&D projects funded by the industry, FCT and EU programs in the field of railway infrastructures and digital construction. Recently, he was co-Editor of the Springer Books "Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment Methodologies, Technologies and Skills" and "Structural Health Monitoring Based on Data Science Techniques”, as well as main Editor of the Springer Book Series “Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction”. He was visiting researcher at Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Germany) and University California San Diego (UCSD) and was awarded with a Fulbright Grant for doctoral researchers/teachers by Fundação Luso-Americana and FCT (2016). |
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Prof. Dr. Daniel V. OliveiraUniversity of Minho, PortugalDaniel V. Oliveira, Portuguese, has a
Bachelor degree (5-years duration, 1993) and a Master degree
(2-years duration, 1996) in Civil Engineering by University of
Porto, and a PhD Degree (2003) in Civil Engineering by
University of Minho. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the
Department of Civil Engineering of University of Minho. |
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Prof. Rudolf HelaBrno University of Technology, Czech RepublicRudolf Hela have been working as a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic since 1985. His professional focus is concrete technology, prefabrication of concrete building components and their use, 3D printing of precast concrete and monolithic structures, recycling of concrete and brick demolition waste and reuse as a substitute for natural aggregates, development of self-compacting and high-strength concretes. |
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Assoc. Prof. Javier Tejera ParraUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, SpainJavier Tejera Parra (1971) is an architect
specialised in light construction and Textile Architecture.
Associate Professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid
(ETSAM), he teaches Textile Architecture, 4th year construction
and tutorships of Master final projects. |
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Prof. Danuta Kłosek-KozłowskaWarsaw University of Technology, PolandDanuta Kłosek-Kozłowska, full professor, Ph.D architect, urban
historian, urban planner,ORCID-0002-9233-8863- at the Faculty of
Architecture Warsaw University of Technology (WUT); head of the
Unit: Heritage of Cities; Head of the Postgraduate Studies on
“Preservation of the Cultural Heritage – Historic Town”;
Vice-President of the International Committee on Historic
Cities, Towns and Villages - CIVVIH–ICOMOS (2011-2021);
President of CIVVIH Sub-Committee on the Heritage of Cities for
Central and Eastern Europe; Member of: ICOMOS- Poland; Polish
Academy of Science; Editor in chief of The Quarterly of
Architecture and Urban Planning (journal of the Polish Academy
of Science) 2011-2017); Expert of: The Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage in the field of Protection of Cultural
Heritage; Polish Society of Urban Planners-TUP; Polish
Conservators of Monuments Society-SKZ in “urban conservation”;
Former vice-President of The Society for the Protection of
Monuments (NGO); The Advisory Council for The Mayor of the city
of Warsaw in Urban Developmen and preservation of cultural
heritage of the Capital City of Warsaw; The Ministry of Culture
and National Heritage Committee for the Development of NGO’s
activity in the field of Culture and Preservation of Cultural
Heritage in Poland; Evaluator of the World Heritage nominations
onto UNESCO WH List (as the desk evaluator, panel expert);
ICCROM Certificat on Itegrated Territorial and Urban
Conservation ITUC’97. |
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Assoc. Prof. M. Talha JunaidUniversity of Sharjah, UAEDr. M. Talha Junaid is an Associate Professor
of Civil Engineering at the University of Sharjah. Dr Junaid
earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of New
South Wales, Australia and his MSc in Materials and Structural
engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Dr
Junaid is over 10 competitive funded projects in the areas of
concrete materials, low-carbon cementitious materials, fiber
reinforced polymers (FRPs), fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) and
3D printing applications in structural engineering. He is the
principal investigator in the 3D-Printed Polymer-Based
Reinforcement for Structural Elements, Mechanical and
Micro-Structural Properties of Geopolymer Concrete containing
Nano Particles, Investigation on the Performance of Geopolymer
Concrete reinforced with Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer and
Restrained Shrinkage and Cracking Behaviour of Ambient Cured
Geopolymer Concrete to name a few. He is also supervising
several MSc and PhD students in Australia and UAE. |
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Assit. Prof. Clara Pimenta do ValeUniversity of Porto, PortugalClara Pimenta do Vale (1967) is an Architect
from the University of Porto (1991) who specialised in building
physics and Portuguese 20th-century construction history. She
holds an MSc in Building Construction from the Faculty of
Engineering (1999) and a PhD in Architecture (2012). |