Antonio Eduardo Bezerra Cabral is a full professor at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, 1997), a Master's degree in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, 2000), a PhD in Environmental Engineering Sciences (University of São Paulo, 2007) with an internship at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, as well as being a postdoctoral scholar at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-Barcelona, Spain, 2012). He has 25 years of experience in civil engineering, building materials, sustainability in civil construction and building pathology. He has published more than 250 papers in journals and at conferences, 11 book chapters, has had six patents granted and has advised 43 masters/PhD theses. He is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Concrete (IBRACON) and the Brazilian Association of Building Pathology and Recovery Technology (ALCONPAT).