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Nuno Peres currently holds an Assistant Professor position at the Faculty of Engineering of Lusófona University - Lisbon University Center, and a Collaborator of the CERIS research centre, graded "excellent" by the Portuguese Foundation for Science & Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering / Structures (2021) from NOVA School of Science and Technology, and also holds a M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering (Structures) and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering Sciences, both from NOVA School of Science and Technology. His main research area is Structural Mechanics, focusing on (i) thin-walled structures, (ii) generalized beam theory, (iii) structural stability, (iv) curved and/or pre-twisted bars and (v) beam FE for large displacements and finite rotations.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nuno Rafael da Silva Peres

Citation names

  • Peres, Nuno

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4715-F6B4-4941
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6189-1570
Google Scholar ID
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Scopus Author Id
56369957200

Email addresses

  • nuno.peres@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/09 - 2021/02
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Doutoramento)
Major in Structures
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Formulações da Teoria Generalizada de vigas para barras de parede fina de eixo curvo (Generalized Beam Theory formulations for thin-walled bars with curved axis)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved unanimously (highest grade)
2013 - 2015
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Structures) (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Formulação linear de Teoria Generalizada de Vigas para barras de eixo curvo (First-order Generalized Beam Theory for curved members)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2010 - 2014
Concluded
 Civil Engineering Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/04 - 2022/11 Business Intelligence Analyst Bring Global, Portugal
2021/07 - 2021/12 Postdoctoral Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/04 - 2021/06 Postdoctoral Researcher Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2016/01 - 2016/09 Researcher (Research Fellowship for Masters) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2013/05 - 2013/10 Researcher (Scientific Initiation Studentship) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/02 - Current NXGEN-CFSS: Towards the Next Generation of Cold-Formed Steel Structures: Advanced High Strength Steels
2023.13431.PEX
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal

Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2023/11 - Current Free-LitterAT – Advancing towards litter-free Atlantic coastal communities by preventing and reducing macro and micro litter
EAPA_0009/2022
Researcher
Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
 European Regional Development Fund
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability
UID/ECI/04625/2019
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Figueiredo, Eloi; Moldovan, Ionut Dragos; Peres, Nuno; Alves, Pedro; Cabral, P.. "Aplicação de telemóvel para monitorização da integridade estrutural: Ponte Edgar Cardoso". Paper presented in Encontro Nacional BETÃO ESTRUTURAL - BE 2024, Porto, 2024.
  2. Figueiredo, Eloi; Moldovan, Ionut; Peres, Nuno; Pinto, Sandra Silva; Alves, Pedro; Cabral, Pedro. "Smartphone application for structural health monitoring of stay cables: Edgar Cardoso Bridge". Paper presented in 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Postdam, 2024.
    10.58286/29717
  3. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo. "On the buckling and post-buckling behavior of thinwalled pre-twisted columns". Paper presented in Annual Stability Conference Structural Stability Research Council, SSRC 2024, San Antonio, 2024.
  4. Figueiredo, Eloi; Peres, Nuno; Moldovan, Ionut Dragos; Nasr, Amro. "Does Climate Change Impact Long-Term Damage Detection in Bridges?". Paper presented in International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures (10th Ed.), 2023.
  5. Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Peres, Nuno; Camotim, Dinar. "A GBT-Based Finite Element for the Buckling Analysis of Thin-Walled Members with Circular Axis". Paper presented in Structural Stability Research Council 2023 Annual Stability Conference, Charlotte, 2023.
  6. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "GBT-Based Stability Analysis of Thin-Walled Members with Circular Axis". Paper presented in International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures (SDSS 2022), Aveiro, 2022.
  7. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "Dynamic analysis of thin-walled members with circular axis using Generalised Beam Theory". Paper presented in International Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations, Lisbon, 2022.
  8. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "A geometrically exact curved thin-walled beam finite element accounting for cross-section deformation". Paper presented in Structural Stability Research Council 2020 Annual Stability Conference, Atlanta, 2020.
  9. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "Using generalized beam theory to assess the behavior of curved thin-walled members". Paper presented in Wei-Wen Yu International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures 2018, St. Louis, 2018.
  10. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "First-order GBT for thin-walled members with arbitrary cross-section and circular axis". Paper presented in International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Lisbon, 2018.
  11. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "First-order generalized beam theory for curved members with circular axis". Paper presented in International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures 2016, Baltimore, 2016.
  12. Dinis, P.B.; Camotim, Dinar; Peres, Nuno. "A novel DSM-based approach for the rational design of fixed-ended and pin-ended short-to-intermediate angle columns". Paper presented in Structural Stability Research Council 2014 Annual Stability Conference, Toronto, 2014.
Journal article
  1. André Dias Martins; Nuno Peres; Pedro Jacinto; Rodrigo Gonçalves. "An Assessment of the Eurocode 3 Simplified Formulas for Distortional Buckling of Cold-Formed Steel Lipped Channels". Applied Sciences (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/11/4924.
    10.3390/app14114924
  2. Figueiredo, Eloi; Peres, Nuno; Moldovan, Ionut Dragos; Nasr, Amro. "Impact of climate change on long-term damage detection for structural health monitoring of bridges". Structural Health Monitoring (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14759217231224254.
    10.1177/14759217231224254
  3. Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar; Basaglia, Cilmar; Martins, André Dias ; Peres, Nuno. "Latest developments on the analysis of thin-walled structures using Generalised Beam Theory (GBT)". Journal of Constructional Steel Research 204 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcsr.2023.107858.
    10.1016/j.jcsr.2023.107858
  4. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "GBT-based dynamic analysis of thin-walled members with circular axis". Thin-Walled Structures 170 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2021.108533.
    10.1016/j.tws.2021.108533
  5. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "Generalised Beam Theory formulation for the buckling analysis of thin-walled members with circular axis". Thin-Walled Structures 176 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2022.109322.
    10.1016/j.tws.2022.109322
  6. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "A geometrically exact beam finite element for curved thin-walled bars with deformable cross-section". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 381 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.113804.
    10.1016/j.cma.2021.113804
  7. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "A GBT-based mixed finite element for curved thin-walled members with circular axis". Thin-Walled Structures 146 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2019.106462.
    10.1016/j.tws.2019.106462
  8. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "Application of Generalised Beam Theory to curved members with circular axis". Stahlbau 87 4 (2018): 345-354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/stab.201810587.
    10.1002/stab.201810587
  9. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "GBT-based cross-section deformation modes for curved thin-walled members with circular axis". Thin-Walled Structures 127 (2018): 769-780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2018.03.008.
    10.1016/j.tws.2018.03.008
  10. Peres, Nuno; Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Camotim, Dinar. "First-order generalised beam theory for curved thin-walled members with circular axis". Thin-Walled Structures 107 (2016): 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2016.06.016.
    10.1016/j.tws.2016.06.016
  11. Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Peres, Nuno; Bebiano, R.; Camotim, Dinar. "Global-Local-Distortional Vibration of Thin-Walled Rectangular Multi-Cell Beams". International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 15 8 (2015): https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219455415400222.
    10.1142/S0219455415400222
Journal issue
  1. Gonçalves, Rodrigo; Martins, André Dias; Peres, Nuno. "Steel Structural Stability in Civil Engineering". Applied Sciences (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/580O9D591U.
    Invited editor
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Formulações da Teoria Generalizada de vigas para barras de parede fina de eixo curvo". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/117054.
  2. "Formulação linear da Teoria Generalizada de Vigas para barras de eixo curvo". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/62622.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Modelação de estruturas em LSF - Aplicação a um caso de estudo
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Civil (Master)
Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Determinação de forças em tirantes de pontes com recurso a telemóveis
Supervisor
 Engenharia Civil (Master)
Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/02/11 - 2025/02/11 1º Edição das Jornadas da Engenharia Civil 2025 (2025/02/11 - 2025/02/11)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC, USA) Member-at-large
2017 - Current Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability Research Center (CERIS) Collaborator

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2025/01 - Current Subdirector of the MSc in Civil Engineering
Other
 Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023/07 - Current Member and Secretary of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Engineering
Member
 Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Structural Dynamics and Seismic Engineering (3h/week) Engenharia Civil (Mestrado) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - Current Theory of Structures (4h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - Current Steel and Composite Structures (6h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - Current Topography and Geographic Information (3h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - Current Calculus II (2h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - Current Linear Algebra (2h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Calculus I (2h/week) Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Applied Sciences (2076-3417) MDPI
2024 - Current Buildings (2075-5309) MDPI
2024 - Current Dynamics (2673-8716) MDPI
2024 - Current Engineering Structures (0141-0296) Elsevier
2024 - Current Materials (1996-1944) MDPI
2022 - Current Thin-Walled Structures (0263-8231) Elsevier
Distinctions

Award

2020 Sarada M. and Raju A. Vinnakota Award
Structural Stability Research Council, United States
2018 Wei-Wen Yu Outstanding Student Scholars Award
Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States

Other distinction

2018 Bolsa de Estudo por Mérito
Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior, Portugal
2016 2nd Place - "Best Dissertation in Structures 2016"
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Portugal
2016 PhD Scholarship SFRH/BD/120062/2016
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal