Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, DECivil, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal and at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), since February 2021, with FCT scholarship. Researcher at CERIS in WGB_Shield project – Shielding building facades on cities revitalization since June 2020.

João L. Parracha holds a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the School of Science and Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA). He worked as a research trainee at LNEC between January 2018 and December 2018 and as a research fellow between January 2019 and January 2021, working on DB-Heritage project – Database of building materials with historical and heritage interest and WGB_Shield project.

He has authored more than 15 publications (peer-reviewed papers, conference presentations) and won the Ron Cockcroft Award (RCA) and the Richard J. Ziobro Award (RZA) by the International Research Group on Wood Protection (IRG/WP), Sweden in 2019.

His Ph.D. research focuses on the durability of multilayer rendering systems (ETICS and thermal mortars) and his research interests are mainly focused on the durability and functional requirements of facades, biodegradability of building materials, and the effects of that degradation on the performance of the facades.