Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico – IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal since September 2020 and Research fellow at the same institution since October 2021.

5-years Degree in Civil Engineering at UFBa – Univesidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil and post-graduated in geotechnics with emphasis on foundations from FAINOR – Faculdade Independente do Nordeste, Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil.

10-years dedicated to project management with a special focus on planning, control and management as fundamental tools for the deployment of organizational strategy. Technical managers of a highway concession in Brazil and responsible for the management of all infrastructure assets.

The Ph.D. research is focused on understanding how the digital transition, may affect the facility management works, namely the artificial intelligence and IoT tools, which opens new opportunities to approach this problem differently and has been attempted to overcome the new challenges.