Anibal Costa. Full Professor at the University of Aveiro. Completed the Título de Agregado in Civil Engeneeringl in 2002 by Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Doutoramento in Civil Engineering in 1989 by Faculty of Enginnering of University of Porto and Licenciatura in Civil Engineering in 1976 by Faculty of Enginnering of University of Porto. Member of the Permanent Council of the High Council of Public Works. Member of the Board of CICOP-Net of Portugal. Member of the Infrastructure Committee of the Diocese of Porto. Specialist in Structures by the Order of Engineers. Member of the Board of Engineers. Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Seismic Engineering from 2002 to 2014 and President of 2014 to 2018. Published 164 articles in journals. Has 78 section(s) of books, 8 book(s), 286 conference papers and 16 edited books. Supervised 6 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 10. He is the director of numerous Master theses. Has received 4 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Researcher in 10 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Civil Engineering with emphasis on Civil Engineering. In partnership with the Regional Directorate of Culture - North (DRCN) and with the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage (DGPC), he developed several rehabilitation and structural reinforcement interventions of the national heritage for 20 years. He has worked in several projects of collaboration with industries trying to develop techniques of repair and reinforcement of existing structures, having this collaboration originated more than 600 technical reports. He has been associated to hundreds of Rehabilitation projects.