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Maria Castro Paupério Vila Pouca. Concluiu o(a) Mestrado em Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica em 2017 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia. Publicou 4 artigos em revistas especializadas. Possui 1 capítulo(s) de livros. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias com ênfase em Engenharia Mecânica com ênfase em Engenharia Mecânica e Ciências Médicas e da Saúde com ênfase em Biotecnologia Médica com ênfase em Biotecnologia Aplicada à Saúde.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
MARIA CASTRO PAUPÉRIO VILA POUCA

Citation names

  • Vila Pouca, Maria

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FB11-536D-6B1D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3279-5285

Telephones

Telephone
  • 22 957 871 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Health-Related Biotechnology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09 - 2022/03/04
Concluded
Engenharia Mecânica (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Biomechanical analysis of low-cycle fatigue damage during the second stage of labor" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017
Concluded
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Application of anisotropic visco-hyperelastic constitutive models for the simulation of biological tissues" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17/20 valores
2012
Concluded
Curso de Ciências e Tecnologias (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária de Valongo, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
19/20 valores
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/07/01 - 2022/02/28 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/02/01 - 2018/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2021/02/28 Associate Laboratory of Energy, Transports and Aeronautics
UIDP/50022/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Pouca, Maria. "Biomechanical Simulation of Vaginal Childbirth: The Colors of the Pelvic Floor Muscles". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-15923-8_1
Journal article
  1. Vila Pouca, Maria C.P.; Ferreira, João P.; Parente, Marco P.L.; Natal Jorge, Renato M.; Ashton-Miller, James A.. "On the Management of Maternal Pushing During the Second Stage of Labor: A Biomechanical Study Considering Passive Tissue Fatigue Damage Accumulation". American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2022.01.023.
    In press • 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.01.023
  2. Vila Pouca, Maria C. P.; Parente, Marco P. L.; Natal Jorge, Renato M.; DeLancey, John O. L.; Ashton-Miller, James A.. "Pelvic floor muscle injury during a difficult labor. Can tissue fatigue damage play a role?". International Urogynecology Journal 33 2 (2021): 211-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00192-021-05012-5.
    10.1007/s00192-021-05012-5
  3. Stansfield, Ekaterina; Fischer, Barbara; Grunstra, Nicole D. S.; Pouca, Maria Villa; Mitteroecker, Philipp. "The evolution of pelvic canal shape and rotational birth in humans". BMC Biology 19 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01150-w.
    10.1186/s12915-021-01150-w
  4. Fidalgo, D. S.; Pouca, M. C. P. Vila; Oliveira, D. A.; Malanowska, E.; Myers, K. M.; Jorge, R. M. Natal; Parente, M. P. L.. "Mechanical Effects of a Maylard Scar During a Vaginal Birth After a Previous Caesarean". Annals of Biomedical Engineering 49 12 (2021): 3593-3608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-021-02805-z.
    10.1007/s10439-021-02805-z
  5. Vila Pouca, M.C.P.; Parente, M.P.L.; Jorge, R.M.N.; Ashton-Miller, J.A.. "Injuries in Muscle-Tendon-Bone Units: A Systematic Review Considering the Role of Passive Tissue Fatigue". Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 9 8 (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85112339995&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1177/23259671211020731
  6. Moura, Rita; Borges, Margarida; Vila Pouca, Maria C. P.; Oliveira, Dulce A.; Parente, Marco P. L.; Kimmich, Nina; Mascarenhas, Teresa; Natal, Renato M.. "A numerical study on fetal head molding during labor". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering 37 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3411.
    10.1002/cnm.3411
  7. "Investigating the birth-related caudal maternal pelvic floor muscle injury: The consequences of low cycle fatigue damage". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 110 (2020): 103956-103956. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751616120305099.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2020.103956
  8. Pouca, Maria. "Episiotomy: the biomechanical impact of multiple small incisions during a normal vaginal delivery". Interface Focus (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0027.
    10.1098/rsfs.2019.0027
  9. Pouca, Maria. "Simulation of the uterine contractions and foetus expulsion using a chemo-mechanical constitutive model.". Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-019-01117-5.
    10.1007/s10237-019-01117-5
  10. Pouca, Maria. "On the effect of labour durations using an anisotropic visco-hyperelastic-damage approach to simulate vaginal deliveries". Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.08.011.
    10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.08.011
  11. Pouca, Maria. "Viscous effects in pelvic floor muscles during childbirth: a numerical study.". International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28886617.
    10.1002/cnm.2927
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/04/02 On the Management of Maternal Pushing During the Second Stage of Labor Pelvic Floor Research Day
Univerrsity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States)
2021/07 Can cyclic loading weaken the origin of the ovine pubovisceral muscle? 26th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
(Milan, Italy)
2021 Maternal pushes during the second stage of labor: a biomechanical study of fatigue damage accumulation 15th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
(Bonn, Germany)
2018/07 Simulation of the uterine contractions and foetus expulsion using a chemo-mechanical constitutive model 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference
(Bologne, Italy)
2018/03/28 On the anisotropic visco-hyperelastic modelling of the pelvic floor muscles during childbirth 15th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2018 Simulation of the uterine contractions and foetus expulsion using a chemo-mechanical constitutive model 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC)
(Bolonha, Italy)
2017/09 Application of anisotropic visco-hyperelastic constitutive models for the simulation of biological tissues 4th LAETA Young Researchers Meeting (EJIL)
(Covilhã, Portugal)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/03/01 - Current Computer Programming I Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/07/01 - 2021/02/28 Linear Algebra and Analytical Geometry Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/02/28 - 2018/07/31 Structural Mechanics II Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2018 Fulbright Scholarship for Research
Fulbright Portugal, Portugal