Sandra Nunes is a full-time Assistant Professor at FEUP. She was awarded the title of European Doctorate, in 2009, by the University of Porto, with a thesis entitled “Performance-based design of self-compacting concrete (SCC): a contribution to enhance SCC mixtures robustness.” During her PhD she was a visiting researcher at The Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands. Her research interests include development and characterization of new cementitious materials, experimental factorial design, modelling of material behaviour, concrete durability, non-destructive testing and digital fabrication with cement-based materials. She has participated actively in thirteen national research projects, four of them in cooperation with local industry. Between 2011 and 2014 she was the head of the Structural Concrete Laboratory of FEUP. In 2012, she initiated a new research line at FEUP on fibre reinforced cementitious materials, being the Principal Researcher of a national research project on “Engineered high performance fibre reinforced concrete materials: design, characterization and quality control”. Currently, five PhD and one Post-doc research projects, and four new R&D projects are under development at FEUP on this topic. She is author of 25 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (ISI) and more than 55 papers in conferences; and has organized one national (BE2012, www.fe.up.pt/be2012) and one international (BAC2015, www.fe.up.pt/bac2015) conference at FEUP. Prof. Nunes is an integrated member of research unit CONSTRUCT/FEUP and LABEST group. She integrates CT 104- 'Betões' and CT 105-'Cimentos' Technical Committees, as a representative of FEUP. She is an active member of Action COST-TU1404, fib Task Group 4.3 and RILEM TC on ‘Digital fabrication with cement-based materials’.