NAME: Rita Nogueira Leite Pereira Bento

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lisboa, Portugal

ACADEMIC DEGREES:

• Civil Engineering Degree (5 years course)
  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, 1981-86.
• MSc in Earthquake Engineering,
  • Imperial College (IC), London, U.K., 1987-88.
• PhD in Civil Engineering
  • Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), Lisbon, Portugal, 1992-97.
• Aggregation in Civil Engineering
  • Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, 2011.

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  POSITION:

  Associate Professor at the Departamento de Engenharia Civil of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon.

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  RESEARCH:

  Researcher at the Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território e Construção (ICIST).

  RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Dynamic of Structures

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  ADDRESS:

  Rita Bento
  Instituto Superior Técnico, DECivil
  Av. Rovisco Pais
  1049-001 Lisboa
  ph: 351-21-8418210 fax: 351-21-8418200
  e-mail: rbento@civil.ist.utl.pt