Dr Liseane Thives has experience in Civil Engineering, focusing on roads, design, construction, and transportation. She holds a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho (Portugal). Her research topics include transport, road pavements, stormwater harvesting, and waste management. She worked for 18 years on pavement sites. Since 2010, she has served as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Department of Civil Engineering. She supervises students at the master's and doctoral level and has had more than 40 articles published in indexed journals and more than 100 articles published in conferences.