About

Maria Paula Mendes holds a PhD (2013) and a master's degree in Earth Resources (2004) from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and is also a Water Resources Engineer (2001) from the University of Évora. She was a doctoral scholarship holder (SFRH/BD/38903/2007) and a postdoctoral scholarship holder (SFRH/BPD/110346/2015) from FCT. In 2019, she received a mobility grant from the Fundación Carolina to conduct research at the University of Seville, in Spain. More recently, in 2023, she was awarded an individual contract as an auxiliary researcher in the FCT's individual scientific employment stimulus competition in the area of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Waste Management and Valorisation. In 2021, she won the "Alfredo da Silva and Entrepreneurship" award as the principal investigator (PI) of the ReDuCe project "Use of disposable mask residues in composites with different formulations," and subsequently, in 2023, in the same competition, an honorable mention with the Fueling Innovation project "A New Era for Safe and Sustainable Transport of Green energy" as a team member; in the same year, she received the award for the VI Edition Circular Seas Awards, in the category "Research Projects of the League for the Protection of Nature," as a team member in the BLOCOYSTER project. She is the author of 29 ISI/WoS articles, with a total of 690 citations, excluding self-citations from all authors. She is the principal coordinator of the educational project "BeWare - Development of Professional Courses in Building Resilience and Sustainability to Extreme Weather Events" (2021-1-PT01-KA220-VET-000027997) Erasmus+, and was the local coordinator of the RESONATE project, both funded by the ERASMUS+ program. At the moment, she is about to start two HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01 projects, one as responsible for IST-ID and WP leader and the other as a member of the research team, and an MIT-CITIESTWINS project - A digital framework to merge durability data, maintenance models and energy retrofitting decisions (2022.15504.MIT) Portugal as a member of the research team.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Climate change and extreme weather events adaption

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