João Ricardo de Sá Chambel is a PhD researcher and Civil Engineer at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), graduating from the same institution. He developed a master’s thesis project on the topic of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations. After finishing, he continued as a research fellow at the IHRH – Hydraulics and Water Resources Institute and FEUP, where he had the opportunity to work on several projects such as: Deviation Infrastructure for Rio de Vila (Metro do Porto), Detached Breakwaters and Artificial Reefs for the Carneiro Beach (Porto), Coastal Erosion at the Esposende Sandspit (Esposende), the ORACLE project – Offshore Risk Analysis for Climate Change and Lifetime Extension of offshore foundations, and the POSEIDON project – Damage Prediction and Design of Scour Protections in Complex Foundations for Marine Renewable Energy. He developed skills in physical & numerical modelling, offshore foundations, risk & reliability analysis, scour phenomena, and climate changes. He also worked as a Civil Engineer at the company Noraqua (Porto), while still maintaining research cooperation with his previous team. In 2021, he obtained a PhD grant for the topic of Optimization of Scour Protections for Hybrid Offshore Foundations with Complex Geometry at FEUP and Oregon State University (EUA). During his short career, he was privileged to work and learn from recognized engineers in his field, namely with Francisco Taveira Pinto (FEUP), Pedro Lomonaco (Oregon State University), Tiago Ferradosa (FEUP), Paulo Santos (FEUP), and Mario Welzel (TU Braunschweig). His interests are extended to Offshore Structures & Foundations, Marine Renewable Energy, Scour (Protections), and Coastal Erosion.
