Lourenço Sassetti Mendes is a PhD candidate at the Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain. He is also a PhD grant holder at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, Lisbon, Portugal. Lourenço graduated in Civil Engineering in 2006 at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa and became a member of the Civil Engineering College of Portugal. During the first four years, he worked on coastal and maritime hydraulics. Since 2011, Lourenço has joined the Hydraulic Resources and Hydraulic Structures team at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil as a junior researcher and is working in dam spillway validation and river flood modelling. Nowadays, he is focused on his PhD thesis entitled "Computational Fluid Dynamics of Spillway Chutes".