Hugo M.R.D. Silva is an assistant professor at the University of Minho (since 2006) and a member of ISISE (since 2020). Trained as a civil engineer, he conducts research on sustainable asphalt materials for road pavements: waste/CDW incorporation, high-RAP recycling, warm/half-warm mixes, foamed and bio-binders, polymer/rubber modification, self-healing, and pavement digitalization with optical sensing. He leads and contributes to national/EU projects, directs the MSc in civil engineering, and teaches in the PhD program. He has supervised several PhD and MSc theses, serves as an external evaluator to the European Commission, and sits on editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals.