Pedro A. de Albuquerque Marques

Born in Vale de Cambra in 1982. Graduated (2005) and PhD (2013) in Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.Throughout its scientific life, has developed research, mainly in the context of railway transport. Participated in research projects, such as:

– “Mitigation of train-induced vibrations in the vicinity of high-speed railways”, through the Ferrovia Knowledge Center, under the protocol established between Soares da Costa and the University of Porto;

– “High-speed train-induced vibration and noise: forecasting and mitigation”, project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology [PTDC / ECM / 114505/2009];

– “PEDDIR – Dynamic Weighing and Irregularity Detection System”, project funded by the National Innovation Agency [NORTE-07-0202-FEDER-023161].

This activity resulted in more than a dozen articles published in international scientific journals and minutes of national and international conferences with scientific arbitration.

He has developed consultancy work, often on railway related topics, such as:

– “Measurement and evaluation of railway-induced vibrations at the construction site of the future Yeatman hotel”, through the FEUP Construction Institute;

– “Measurement and evaluation of vibrations induced by the crimping of the foundation piles of the Vila Nova de Gaia cable car base station”, through the FEUP Construction Institute;

– “Analysis of the abnormal wear of the 2300/2400 railcar wheels in service on the Sintra line”, through the Ferrovia Knowledge Center.

He was an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and at the Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto. Collaborates with the Lusófona University of Porto since 2014 as Assistant Professor, currently Director of the Degree in Civil Engineering and Student Ombudsman.

I am passionate for data science and for introducing intelligence into business problems through mathematical algorithms, with a particular attention devoted on geospatial analysis.
I am a curious and continuous learner of state-of-the-art methodologies applied on the prediction and optimization activities, aiming to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of companies, and to support their decisions at different layers of responsibility.

Parallel, have developed extensive IT competences that are an important ally into the aforementioned data science tasks.
Very briefly, I am an experienced Python developer (with knowledge of other languages), working daily with big data (in a hadoop cluster) and a proficient SQL user (love PostgreSQL and postGIS).
In addition, have also built web based applications (using Angular JS) to disseminate the outputs of projects, allowing the client interaction and simulation of analytical solutions.

My professional and academic career started at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto as a researcher concerning earthquake engineering and loss estimation in the last year of my graduation as a Civil Engineer (in 2005).
This was the starting point for my PhD works concerning probabilistic seismic vulnerability assessment of buildings, which were developed at both University of Porto and EUCENTRE (Pavia, Italy).

It was in 2011 that had initiated a post-doctoral position in seismic risk assessment and since this year had reached other important milestones, namely: principal investigator and responsible at FEUP of 3 scientific research projects (national and EU) funded in a total budget exceeding 750k€; invited lecturer of the Structural Department of three different public institutions (FEUP, ISEP and IPVC); delivered several oral communications and published many scientific reports and papers in peer reviewed journals.