People | Csto2ne

Our teammates

Our consortium includes 65 people from very diverse backgrounds : researcher, professors, engineers, PhD students and more...

Coordinators

João CASTRO GOMES

Full Professor (UBI)

João is a Professor at UBI, working on ... He was previously involved in the MSCA Program REMINE and is currently leading the CSTO2NE consortium

Elsa VIZIER

Special Projects Director (BIO)

Elsa supervises strategic and transverse projects for Bioxegy, including CSTO2NE. For CSTO2NE, she is also in charge of Knowledge Share and Dissemination

Xiangming ZHOU

Full Professor - Coordinator (BUL)

Xiangming is Head of CEE, 15% involvement in research, training and supervision, is on carbon absorption and storage via construction materials, planting concrete, low carbon cement, cement-based functional & smart materials.

Torben LENAU

Associate Professor (DTU)

Torben Lenau has for the last 20 years been working with biomimicry and how to search for and incorporate inspiration from nature in the design of new products. He is responsible for DTU master course on the topic and has co-written a textbook on the topic for education. He also uses the biological inspiration for industry-oriented research and development work and is currently developing medical needles of plastic utilizing inspiration from the mosquito.

Antonia PACIOS

Associate Professor ( UPM)

Antonia is an architect, expert in cement-based materials and innovative building systems and materials. Her activity in research transference is realted to novel construction processes from the sutainability approach, and standardisation procedures.

Luisa CABEZA

Full Professor (UDL)

Luisa F. Cabeza holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. She has published over 500 scientific articles on thermal energy storage and energy systems, covering various aspects from basic science to engineering solutions, economics, and sustainability. Her recent research also focuses on social problems related to thermal energy storage.

Paula CAREY

Chief Technonolgy Officer (C8S)

Paula is the CTO and a founding director of C8S. With over 20 years of experience in the field, she has contributed to the design, construction, and operation of three out of four operational ACT plants and manages research and development at C8S.

José GONCALVES

Professor (CBPBI)

José is a biologist and undertakes research in plant physiology and biotechonology

Simon MAY

Co-founder & Director (PHY)

Entrepreneur and author. Industrial Design trained with a Master's in Innovation. Experienced at taking products and services to market.

Leszek SZOJDA

Full Professor(SUT)

Leszek scientific activity is focused on the study of the mechanical properties of materials and their application to numerical models using FEM, as well as numerical analyzes of building structures under the influence of soil deformation.

Shuqiong LUO

Associated Professor (HPU)

She is an expert in upcycling mining and industry wastes into cementitious materials, as well as manufacturing low-carbon cementitious materials using microwave heating techniques. Her research also focuses on developing CO2 sequestration materials.

Teammates

University of Beira Interior (UBI)

Marisa ALMEIDA

Assistant Professor (UBI)

Marisa is specialized in pavement research, materials, design, construction and performance evaluation pavement.

Cristina FAEL

Assistant Professor (UBI)

Cristina's research interests include hydraulics, hydrology, water resources, river hydraulics, and sediment transport. Her focus areas are surface water resources, river hydrodynamics, local scour, countermeasures, and sediment transport.

Clemente PINTO

Assistant Professor (UBI)

Clemente specializes in structural design using stones and eco-materials. He has expertise in the mechanical behaviour of brittle materials like rocks and concrete, as well as the path of forces in structural systems. Aditionally, his work focused the study of structural design of special structures, like shells and arches, based on the examples of some master builders and using the relationships between form, materials and paths of forces as a tool.

Manuel MAGRINHO

Assistant Professor (UBI)

Manuel is interested in research in the electrochemistry of biosensors, focusing on developing sustainable materials and minimising the environmental impact of building materials. He also investigates leaching in building materials and its potential environmental impact.

Imed BEGHOURA

Post-doctoral researcher (UBI)

Imed is a researcher with a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Beira Interior. His research focuses on sustainable building materials and technologies.

Erick SOARES

Doctoral researcher (UBI)

Erick is a Civil Engineering doctoral student at UBI studying innovative materials and building technology that use carbonated materials as an alternative to Portland cement-based materials. He specializes in material analyses.

Dina PINTO

Doctoral researcher (UBI)

Dina is pursuing a doctorate in Civil Engineering at the University of Beira Interior, focusing on "Vegetation-growth and water-pervious carbon-cured construction materials". Her research interests include Sustainable Development, Sustainable Building, and Life Cycle Analysis.

João LEITÃO

Associate Professor (UBI)

João is the director of UBIExecutive Business School and of the MBA@UBI. President of the Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR), Portuguese Section of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA).

Dina PEREIRA

Doctoral researcher (UBI)

Dina is the executive manager of UBImedical, incubator of University of Beira Interior. She is researcher at CEGIST-Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. She is co-founder of a startup in the field of drug development.

João FERREIRA

Associate Professor (UBI)

João Ferreira is the director of the Doctoral Program in Management at the UBI. He has edited or co-edited several books on strategy and entrepreneurship and has published over 300 articles in leading international journals. He is an editor for several leading journals in the field of Management. His main research interests include strategy and entrepreneurship.

Bioxegy (BIO)

Marylore ADLER

Project Manager | Bio-Inspired R&D

Marylore is a Bio-inspired R&I Project Specialist. She manages scientific bio-inspired projects for multiple clients at Bioxegy. For CSTO2NE, she will (be able to) give an insight on Bioxegy's methodology of identication and development of bio-inspired solutions.

Quentin AMSELLEM

Senior Project Engineer | Bio-Inspired R&D

Quentin is a Project Enginner and Project Manager. Its role is to manage a project from the definition of the technical challenge with an industrial client to the design and development of bioinspired technolgies. For CSTO2NE, he will participate occasionally in international discussions to share his experiences and knowledge.

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Sidney ROSTAN

Founder & CEO

Sidney is passionate about innovation and industry. will contribute to CSTO2NE with his experience as Bioxegy's leader concerning business, communication and project & technology development.

Simon DE MYTTENAERE

Co-founder & COO

Simon supervises internal strategic subjects such as finance, operation, HR, administration, ... In CSTO2NE, he will guide administrative and legislative aspect such as intellectual property.

Margaux DIDI

Head of Project Department | Bio-inspired R&D

Margaux is Bioxegy's Global Head of Projects. She's leading the team of engineer and supervises the R&D projects with Bioxegy's clients. She will contribute to CSTO2NE with her technical and project management skills and her knowledge of the industrial world.

Luc LAMORE

Bio-inspired Science Expert | Lead of Knowledge Management

Luc is a Bio-inspiration Specialist. He contributes to industrial projects by providing crucial knowledge on biology and other scientific domains . In CSTO2NE, he will bring his knowledge of the living world and great understanding of its solutions to tranfer them into technical ones.

Clement NORODOM

Senior Project Engineer | Bio-Inspired R&D

Clément is Project Manager & Project Engineer. He has a training in civil engineering and participate in industrial projects with his technical skills. He will occasionnaly contribute to CSTO2NE with his knowledge and understanding of complex industrial problematics and technical solutions.

Lilie BOIZUMAULT

Project Engineer | Bio-inspired R&D

Lilie works on industrial project and will contribute to CSTO2NE with her technical skills and biomimetic analysis.

Brunel University of London (BUL)

Lorna ANGUILANO

Senior Research Fellow (BUL)

Lorna is Senior Researcher and Quality Manager of ETC, 75% involvement in research, has main expertise in Phytomining, characterisation of materials, mineralogy as well as ISO accredited analyses.

Kangkang TANG

Senior Lecturer (BUL)

Kangkang is UG Course Director of CEE, 15% involvement in research, training and supervision, is on resilient infrastructure and natural-based solution for built environment.

Nuhu BRAIMAH

Senior Lecturer (BUL)

Nuhu is the Director of Teaching and Learning of CEE, 5% involvement in research, training and supervision, is on construction technology and management, risk and finance management for construction projects.

Lee HOSKING

Lecturer (BUL)

Lee is a lecturer in geo-environmental engineering of CEE, 5% involvement in research, training and supervision, is on carbon capture and storage, the numerical modelling of geo-energy engineering technologies, such as geological CO2 sequestration and unconventional geothermal energy recovery.

Uchechukwu ONWUKWE

Researcher

Uche is a Researcher at the ETC, 75% involvement in research, main expertise in nanotechnology, synthesis and material characterisation

Shuang LIANG

PhD student (BUL)

Shuang, a final year PhD student at CEE, is on carbonation of magnesium-based cement, and nano-engineered magnesium-based cement.

Zhonghao NIU

PhD student (BUL)

Zhonghao, a 2nd year PhD student at CEE, is on nano-additive for tailoring rheology of fibre-cement composites for additive manufacturing.

Mingqing LIU

PhD student (BUL)

Mingqing, a third year PhD student at CEE, is on nano-engineered lime calcined clay cement for resilient infrastructure.

Denmark University of Technology (DUT)

Tim Pat McGinley

Head of studies Architectural Engineering, Associate Professor in Digital Civil Engineering (EngD).

Originally trained as an architect, Tim has worked on projects at a variety of high profile architecture practices including Foster + Partners in London, ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] in Rotterdam. He has also worked as a researcher and educator at the Hyperbody Research Group at TU Delft, UniSA in Australia where he co-founded the Morphogenetic Prototyping Lab and Agile X Research Group. He is currently Head of Studies for architectural Engineering at DTU in Denmark. Tim’s research applies the evolutionary and developmental perspective of biology to model our built environment.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

Joaquim ORDIERES

Full Professor (UPM)

Joaquín is an industrial Engineer, PQ coordinator, Full professor, with expertise in assets and energy management, digital transformation, services to the industry to be competitive in the European market.

Mercedes GRIJALVO

Associate Professor (UPM)

Researcher with a doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization from Charles III University. Her recent research focuses on innovation in business models, and Lean and Industry 4.0.

Justo GARCIA

Full Professor (UPM)

Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Circular Economy of Minerals and Construction Products and UPM Coordinator of the AMIR (Advanced Materials: Innovative Recycling) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree. His lines of work and research are Sustainability and Circular Economy in the Construction Sector, and he also coordinates the CIRCULAR EELISA Community at the EELISA Alliance of Universities.

José Ygnacio PASTOR

Full Professor (UPM)

PhD in Physics since 1993, UCM (Spain). His expertise focuses on advanced characterization of materials in extreme on-service conditions. He has over 120 scientific articles and he has collaborated with over 20 well-known international research centers.

Elena TEJADO

Associate Professor (UPM)

Her current research areas of interest include the microstructural and mechanical characterization of materials at different scales, with a special focus on their performance at very high temperatures. The materials studied are mainly devised for energy applications, especially refractory alloys for fusion devices, composites, and coatings.

Anabel CASTILLO

PhD student (UPM)

Anabel is an architect and is part of the Sustainability in Construction and Industry group, giSCI-UPM. His fields of interest include innovation and circular economy to achieve sustainable communities and cities.

Diego FOGACA

PhD Student (UPM)

Diego is an industrial engineer with expertise in organizational theory and quality management. He is an assistant professor at UFMS in Brazil and a PhD student at UPM. His recent research focuses on institutional aspects of emerging technologies, particularly Industry

Ángel PARÍS

Associate Professor (UPM)

Angel is an Aeronautical Engineer, expert in airports. Within this field, its research activity focuses on process optimization, especially those related to improving the level of service and the sustainability of infrastructure.

Victor REY

Doctor Assistant Professor (UPM)

Victor is a civil engineer and materials engineer both from UPM. His doctoral thesis focused on the design and development of experimental tools for the dynamic characterization of concrete and subsequently he has dedicated his research to the mechanical characterization of materials subjected to high strain and impact velocities. Recently he has been involved in the design and characterization of mortars for 3D printing.

Jaime ORELLANA BARRASA

Doctor Assistant Professor (UPM)

Jaime is a materials engineer by the UPM with expertise in the influence of time (ageing in different environments) in the mechanical, thermal and microstructural properties of polymeric materials (like PLA, PMMA or wax). He is currently working on the effect of additive manufacturing technologies on the extruded materials.

University of Lleida

Gabriel ZSEMBINSZKI

Postdoctoral researcher (UDL)

Gabriel Zsembinszki holds a PhD degree in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Since 2010 he has been part-time lecturer at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Buildings at the University of Lleida and involved in research activities within GREiA research group related to thermal energy storage and heat transfer.

Emiliano BORRI

Postdoctoral researcher (UDL)

Emiliano Borri is a postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in Industrial Engineering. He works with the GREiA research group and contributes to the management of several EU-funded projects. His research focuses on thermal energy accumulators for use in buildings and includes technical and economic evaluations.

Carbon8 Systems

Colin HILLS

Full Professor

Colin is a Professor at the University of Greenwich and a founding director of C8S, a company specializing in Accelerated Carbonation Technology (ACT). With over 20 years of experience in ACT, Colin has contributed to the design, construction, and operation of three of the four operational plants and continues to manage research and development at C8S.

CBPBI Association

Ofélia ANJOS

Professor (CBP)

Ofélia is someone always looking for new challenges and available for teamwork. Her expertise in materials analysis could be an asset to this project

Carmo HORTA

Professor (CBP)

Carmo has extensive experience in waste reuse processes and, consequently, in the development of circular economy systems.

Luisa NUNES

Professor (CBP)

Luísa is a nature lover, working in environmental indicator species and in systemic biomimcry processes for a more sustainable world.

Polytechnic Slaska

Barbara KLEMCZAK

Full Professor (SUT)

Barbara research interests include FE modelling and testing the properties of early-age cement-based composites. Her PhD and habilitation theses were on early-age thermal and shrinkage effects in mass concrete. More recently, her research has focused on lightweight foam-cement composites.

Grzergorz WANDZIK

Associate Professor (SUT)

Grzegorz scientific interests are focused on the nonlinear analysis of structures and structural members. In his work, he uses his own software to analyse various problems solved with the use of the numerical methods. He has many years of experience in creating software (Delphi, C#, Python languages) for the analysis of structures and their cooperation with subsoil as well as theoretical analysis of the results of laboratory tests of structural elements.

Malgorzata SAFUTA

Assistant Professor (SUT)

Malgorzata research interests involve the application of nanotechnology in concrete structures, in particular the 2D materials-based high-performance, self-sensing, and piezoresistive cementitious composites

Malgorzata PAJAK

Assistant Professor (SUT)

Malgorzata is involved in laboratory investigation of concrete and FRC under quasi-static and high strain rates. The behaviour of the materials is analysed under high strain rates using Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar technique. In her research the fibres recycled from the end-of-life tires are applied

Phyona

Lorna ANGUILANO

Senior Research Fellow (BUL)

Lorna is Senior Researcher and Quality Manager of ETC, 75% involvement in research, has main expertise in Phytomining, characterisation of materials, mineralogy as well as ISO accredited analyses.

Uchechukwu ONWUKWE

Researcher

Uche is a Researcher at the ETC, 75% involvement in research, main expertise in nanotechnology, synthesis and material characterisation

Henan Polytechnic University

Lei YANG

Professor

Wenyan ZHANG

Professor

Songhui LIU

Professor

Jianping ZHU

Professor