Jorge Manuel Gonçalves Branco, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was unanimously approved by the members of the Jury, in the Habilitation Exams in the branch of knowledge of Civil Engineering.

The public exams for the Habilitation in the branch of knowledge of Civil Engineering, requested by Dr Jorge Manuel Gonçalves Branco, took place on 9 July in the Sala de Atos of the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, Guimarães.

The jury was chaired by Dr José Fernando Gomes Mendes, Full Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, and its members were Dr Sérgio Manuel Rodrigues Lopes, Full Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra; Dr Luís Manuel Calado de Oliveira Sousa Martins, Full Professor of the Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon; Dr Paulo Jorge de Melo Matias Faria de Vila Real, Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro; Dr Paulo José Brandão Barbosa Lourenço, Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho; and Dr Joaquim António Oliveira de Barros, Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho.

The Habilitation degree is awarded to professors with a professional curriculum of high merit who demonstrate relevant activity in terms of advanced research, training or guidance, and the authorship of scientific work of recognised quality after obtaining a doctorate.