BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Paulo Jorge de Melo Matias Faria de Vila Real
Place of birth: Mozambique
Date of birth: 29-03-1960
Nationality: Portuguese
Institutional address:
University of Aveiro
Department of Civil Engineering
3810-193 AVEIRO
1.
Education
1983
Graduate in Civil Engineering, Structures, at the University of Porto
1988
M.Sc. in Structural Engineering, at the University of Porto
1993
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Porto
2002
Aggregation on Civil Engineering, at the University of Aveiro
2.
Position
2003 / … Full Professor - Professor of Steel Structures and Structural Fire Resistance at the Depto. of Civil
Eng. of the University of Aveiro.
2007 / … Head of the Fire Resistance Laboratory of the University of Aveiro.
2010 / … Director of the Doctoral Program on Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro.
3.
Field of specialisation
Steel and Steel and Concrete Composite Structures; Behaviour of Structures under Fire Conditions;
Finite Element Modelling; Experimental Modelling.
4. Activity
4.1 Scientific Activity
• Principal investigator of the Structural Fire Resistance Group (RG-CIVE-Centro-Aveiro-717-2182)
from the Research Unit LABEST (CIVE-Norte-Porto-717), classified as Very Good.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Steel Construction – Design and research, Ernst &
Sohn, A Wiley Company , ISSN 1867-0520.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, Multi-Science
Publishing, ISSN 2040-2317.
• Author or co-author of more than 220 papers published in national and international Journals and
Conference proceedings, 33 are listed in the ISI Web of Science.
• Research director of some projects sponsored by FCT, Ministry of Science and Technology.
• Local Coordinator of some RFCS projects funded by the European Commission.
• Author of the books:
− “Fire Design of steel Structures”, (Jean-Marc Franssen, Paulo Vila Real), Eds. ECCS, ISBN 978-929-147-099-0 & Ernst & Sohn a Wiley Company, ISBN 978-3-433-02974-9, April 2010.
− “Incêndio em Estruturas Metálicas - Cálculo Estrutural”, Eds. ORION, 2003, ISBN: 972-8620-04-7.
• Editor of four books:
− “6th Applied and Computational Mechanics” – 6th National Conference on Applied and
Computational Mechanics (P. Vila Real and J. Grácio, eds., 1999, ISBN: 972-8021-61-5)
− “Steel and Composite Construction” – 3rd National Meeting on Steel and Composite Construction
(António Lamas, P. Vila Real, and L. Simões da Silva, eds., 2001, ISBN: 972-98376-2-7.
− “Steel and Composite Construction” – 4th National Meeting on Steel and Composite Construction
(António Lamas, Luís Calado, João Ferreira and P. Vila Real, eds., 2003, ISBN: 972983765-1.
− “Structures in Fire – SiF’06” – 4th International Workshop Structures in Fire – SiF’06, P. Vila Real,
J.-M. Franssen and Nuno Lopes, eds., 2006, ISBN: 972-789-190-X.
• Participation to National and International Conferences as member of the Scientific Committee,
invited speaker or session chairman.
• Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the 7th International Conference on Structures in Fire, –
SiF’12”, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 6 to 8 June 2012.
4.2 Participation to National Activities
Since 2005 Member of the Technical Committee CT 115 – Eurocodes where was in charge of writing
the National Annexes to the fire parts of the Eurocodes on actions, concrete, steel,
composite and aluminium structures.
Since 2005 Vice-President of the CMM – Portuguese Association of Steel and Composite Structures.
Since 1997 Member of the Board of the Portuguese Association of Applied, Theoretical and
Computational Mechanics.
4.3 Participation to International Activities
Since 2002 Member of the Technical Committe, TC3, Fire Safety of Steel Structures, of the European
Convention for Constructional Steewok – ECCS.
Since 2005 Member of the European network “Secure with Steel” leaded by ArcelorMittal.
Since 2006 Member of the Steering Committee of the Structures in Fire Movement.
Since 2007 Member of the Working Group 1 – Fire Resistance of COST C26 – Urban Habitat
Constructions under Catastrophic events”, 2006-2009.
Since 2009 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, MultiScience Publishing, ISSN 2040-2317.
Since 2010 Secretary of the Technical Committe, TC3, Fire Safety of Steel Structures, of the
European Convention for Constructional Steewok – ECCS.
Since 2010 Chairman of theWG3 - Integrated Design of the COST action network number TU0904
Integrated Fire Engineering and Response.
Since 2011 Member of the Evolution Group of the Part 1.2 of Eurocode 3.
Since 2012 Member of the Evolution Group of the Part 1.2 of Eurocode 4.
Since 2012 Member of the Editorial Board of the Steel Construction – Design and research, Ernst &
Sohn, A Wiley Company , ISSN 1867-0520.
4.4 Consultancy
As consultant he has made several studies as author or co-author in the field of Structural Fire Safety for large
steel buildings as Shopping Centres, Retail Parks, Sport halls, Muli-purpose halls or Exhibition halls.
4.5 Software Published
Vila Real, P.; Franssen, J.-M. – Elefir-EN – A software for fire design of structural steel members,
http://elefiren.web.ua.pt, 2010.