Link to Index Page

Professor Carlos Alberto Mota Soares

See:
https://www.idmec.ist.utl.pt/idmec/carlosmotasoares.html
http://www.idmec.ist.utl.pt/laeta/ciencia_2008/CAMotaSoares.pdf

Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon
IDMEC/IST – Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal

Areas of Interest:
Optimal structural design, composite materials and structures, adaptive structures, computational mechanics

Education:
• “Agregação” in Mechanical Design, Technical University of Lisbon, 1982;
• Ph.D. in Structural Dynamics, University of Surrey, 1975;
• M.Sc. in Mechanics of Solids, University of Aston in Birmingham, 1971;
• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, University of Aston in Birmingham, 1970;

Career:
• Chairman of LAETA – Associate Laboratory in Energy, Transports and Aeronautics,
since 2006;
• Chairman of IDMEC - Institute of Mechanical Engineering, since 1992;
• Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, I.S.T., 1998-2002;
• Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, I.S.T., 1991 - 1996;
• Professor Technical University of Lisbon, since 1985;
• Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 1983-1984;
• Director of CEMUL, 1982 - 1992;
• Associate Professor, Technical University of Lisbon, 1979-1985;
• Assistant Professor, Technical University of Lisbon, 1977-1979;
• Research Associate, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of
Southampton, 1974-1977;
• Mechanical Engineering Apprentice, British Leyland Motor Corporation, 1964-1971.

International recognition:
• Chairman of the ECCOMAS Thematic Conferences is Smart Structures and Materials,2003, 2005 and 2007;
• Chairman of the III European Conference on Computational Mechanics: Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, 2006;
• Co-Chairman of the World Congresses on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 1993 and 2005;
• Director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, Portugal, 1998.
• Director of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Topology Design of Structures", Portugal, 1992.
• Director of the NATO/NASA Advanced Study Institute on Computer Aided Optimal Design: Structural and Mechanical Systems", Portugal, 1986.
• Supervisor or Co-Supervisor of 9 Ph.D. Thesis.
• Project leader of the AGARD Project "Computer Aided Analysis and Optimization of Structures", in collaboration with the University of Iowa.
• Project leader of the AGARD Project "Shape Optimal Design of Composite Structures", in collaboration with the University of Michigan and Technical University of Denmark.
• Coordinator of CASSEM – Composites and Adaptive Structures: Simulation, Experimentation and Modelling, NMP Program of UE.
• Coordinator of 40 COMETT Courses in Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Structural and Mechanical Systems, in 11 countries of UE.
• Coordinator of 10 FCT Research Projects.
• Participation in 10 European Research Projects.
• Guest Editor of the International Journal Computer & Structures.
• Guest Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Materials and Structures.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Structural Optimization.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Engineering Optimization.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mechanics of Structures and Machines.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures.
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Engineering Science.
• Associated Editor of the International Journal of Boundary Elements.
• Associated Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Mechanical Science.
• Referee to the International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering.
• Referee to the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
• Referee to the Journal of IAAA.
• Referee to the Journal of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
• Referee to the Journal of Engineering Analysis.
• Referee to the Journal of Communications in Applied Numerical Methods.
• Adviser to the BRITE Program about priorities of research in UE.
• Referee of BRITE Research Projects
• National Delegate of the BRITE Program (1994-1998).
• National Delegate of the GROWTH Program, (1999-2004).
• National Delegate of the NMP Program, since 2004.
• National Delegate of EUCLID Program, (1990-2004).
• Member of Scientific Council of FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), since 2002.
• Coordinator of the scientific area of Computational Mechanics of JNICT. (1987-1989)
• Member of the Executive Council of IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics), since 2006.
• Member of Managing Board of ECCOMAS (European Community in Computational Methods in Applied Science), since 2004.
• Fellow of IACM (International Association of Computational Mechanics), since 2002.
• Honorary Member of APMTAC – National Association for Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics, since 2004.
• Chairman of APMTAC – National Association for Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics, since 1999.
• Vice-Chairman of APMTAC – National Association for Theoretical, Applied andComputational Mechanics, (1996-1999).

Selected Publications (see http://www.idmec.ist.utl.pt/laeta/ciencia_2008/CAMotaSoares.pdf for a complete list):

Page 394 / 404