Dr. Ana Margarida Bento

Dr Ana Margarida Bento is a postdoctoral researcher in the POSEIDON project at CIIMAR and FEUP. She is currently the co-coordinator of the R&D unit Offshore Structures & Foundations of Marine Energy group at CIIMAR. She developed her Ph.D. thesis in a partnership between the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) and FEUP, under the FCT PhD Program InfraRisk. The work carried out consisted of the development of a pragmatic methodology for the assessment and rating of risk associated with bridge foundation scour, using a semi-quantitative priority factor. She completed her MSc in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Water Resources) in 2013 at IST. She did an international internship at Faculdades Integradas de Aracruz, from IAESTE. In 2014, she integrated the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Division of FEUP as a master researcher in the project NUMPIERS. In July 2021, she joined the research project InfraCrit, as a postdoctoral researcher at ISISE (UMinho). In May 2022, she joined the national project GIIP as the technical and financial coordinator within UMinho. She joined the scientific committee of 16 peer-reviewed journals and of seven conferences, as guest editor in the SI of Ocean Engineering and as associate editor in two international journals (ISSN 1646-8972 and 1064-1246). She is also the author and co-author of several peer-reviewed journal and conference scientific articles.