Civil Engineer, MSc in Construction, Post-graduation in Earth Construction Preservation, PhD in Civil Engineering – Buildings Rehabilitation. As an Associate Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, she was vice-Dean, member of the Faculty Scientific Council and coordinator of a MSc in Building Rehabilitation. Member of CERIS (Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability) research unit, senior member of ICOMOS where she is board member of ISCEAH for earthen construction conservation and board member for ICOMOS Portugal, member of RILEM´s Development Advisory Committee, collaborating on Technical Committees for the characterization of eco-efficient building materials, and member of PROTERRA Ibero-American network. She was Editor in Chief of Elsevier´s Journal of Building Engineering and is board member and reviewer of several other scientific journals. Her main research areas are related to building materials and technologies with low embodied energy (including clayish earth, lime, gypsum, pozzolans, biomass), and contribution for occupants’ health and comfort. She has more than three hundred publications, supervised more than two hundred students (post-doc, PhD and MSc thesis), coordinated and collaborated on several projects. She has an h-index of 33 (Scopus). https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/persons/p-faria
Email: paulina.faria@fct.unl.pt