Civil Engineer (2003) and Master from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2005), Lélio Brito holds a PhD (2011) from the University of Nottingham, England. His lines of work involve pavement design, asphalt mixtures, laboratory test instrumentation, and application of technology in transportation infrastructure; he has worked as a designer, consultant, and project manager in construction, and road maintenance. He is currently an adjunct professor at UFRGS, head of the Department of Civil Engineering (DECIV) and coordinator of the Laboratory of Paving (LAPAV); leads projects on technology transfer and scientific development of materials applied to paving; application of high-speed weighing technology as a tool for road inspection; micro-energy generation from flexible pavement, and personnel training through the PETER program, a Special Training Program in Road Engineering at the Paving Laboratory.