Paulo Monteiro, Professor

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

Professor Paulo J. M. Monteiro

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1985): Department of Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM), University of California at Berkeley.
Master of Science in Engineering (1981): Department of Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM), University of California at Berkeley.
Civil Engineer (1979): Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo.

POSITIONS HELD

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1994-present).
Faculty Scientist, Department of Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (2008-present)
Group Head, Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials (2002-6).
Vice-Chair, Technical Services, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1993-96).
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1990-94).
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1987-90).
Consulting Engineer for the Grupo de Cimento Paraiso (1986).
Post Graduate Research Engineer (1985) Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
Research Assistant (1980-85) at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.

Ph.D. THESIS
Microstructure of Concrete and its Influence on the Mechanical Properties. University of California Berkeley, 1985.

AWARDS

Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professor (2008-present), Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
Premio Ari Torres (2005), highest award for concrete research given by the Brazilian Concrete Institute.
Brunauer Award (2004) from the American Ceramics Society.
Wason Medal for Materials Research, (2003) from the American Concrete Institute.
Livre Docente (1993) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Presidential Young Investigator (1989-94), National Science Foundation.
Roy W. Carlson Distinguished Professor (1987-88), Department of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship (1992), Norway.
British Council Fellowship, Imperial College, University of London (1988-89).
Carlson-Polivka Fellowship (1985) given by the Department of Civil Engineering, U.C. Berkeley.
Willian & Helena Popert Fellowship (1984): given by the Department of Civil Engineering, U.C. Berkeley.
Rotary Foundation Fellowship (1980-1981) for MS degree at U.C. Berkeley.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL WORK

Member of the Technical Board for Calera Co.
Chair of the Technical Board for CalStar cement (2007-2009)
APA/Chevron: Storage tanks
FURNAS Centrais Electricas: concrete large dams constructed using roller compacted concrete.
Irape Consortium: feasibility study of using pyrite in a large concrete dam
Morley Contractors: development of the concrete used in the Los Angeles Cathedral.
Caltrans: Litigation of the Paso Robles bridge.
ARPA: Modeling of the creep data for the concrete used in the new Bay Bridge.
Termite: for the production of two videos for the Discovery Channel (Roman Concrete and Troy).

RECENT INVITED LECTURES

Nanotechnology of Concrete: A Key Step in the Development of a Sustainable Construction Material, UCLA Distinguished Lecture Series in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 2012.
Green Cement: Microscopy under 10nm Resolution, COSMIC Workshop at the Advanced Light Source, 2011.
Use of Synchrotron Radiation to Study C-S-H, Workshop Sinergia on C-S-H Meso to Atomistic Structure, Lausanne, 2011
X-ray microscopy of green cements, Center of nanostructure materials, CNN/APS meeting, Argonne National Lab., 2011.
Use of Synchrotron Radiation to Study Cement-Based Materials. CODEX Symposium, Florence, 2011.
Nanotechnology for cement-based materials, Special lecture at the University of Firenze, Florence, 2011.
Microscopy of concrete exposed to freezing conditions, Olivier Coussy Symposium, Paris, 2011.
Advances in concrete characterization, Ecole Polytechnique at Lausanne, 2010.
Lecture for receiving the Honra ao Merito Award from IBRACON, Brazil, 2010.
X‐ray Imaging: From Tomography to Nanotomography, CONSEC, Mexico, 2010.
High-resolution soft x-ray imaging of cements, Tenth International Conference on X-ray Microscopy, Chicago, 2010.
Lectures at Wuhan University, China, as Guest Professor, 2010.
Latest advances in nanoscopic analysis of cementitious materials, Lafarge workshop, Lyon, 2010.
Characterizing the Nano and Micro Structure of Concrete to Improve its Durability , Nanotechnologia en el Hormigon y Hormigones Autocompactantes, Jornada Tecnica, Barcelona, Spain 2009.

Characterization of cementitious materials using X-ray synchrotron radiation, Challenges and promises of multi-scale modelling schemes for cementitious materials, Bilbao, Spain, 2009.
Green Concrete and Sustainable Construction: A Multi-Scale Approach, Sustainable Cement and Concrete Technology, Seoul, Korea, 2009.
Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Cement Paste Hydration Products, Fundamental understanding of cementitious materials for improved chemical, physical and aesthetic performance, Nanocem, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, 2009.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Chi Epsilon
United States Committee on Large Dams (USCOLD)

MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Cement and Concrete Research
ASCE Materials Journal
CCC
Revista Ingenieria de Construccion

Patents

1. Paulo Monteiro and Frank Morrison “Non-Destructive Method of Determining the Position and Condition of Reinforcing Steel in Concrete”, US Patent 5,855,721 (1999).
2. Brent R. Constantz, Laurence Clodic, Cecily Ryan, Miguel Fernandez, Kasra Farsad, Sidney Omeron, Plilip Tuet, Paulo Monteiro, Gordon E. Brown, Katharine Geramita. "Production of Carbonate-Containing Compositions from Material Comprising Metal Silicates", US Patent US 7,749,476 B2 (2010).
3. Brent R. Constantz, Paulo J.M. Monteiro, Miguel Fernandez, Katharine Geramita, Karin Yaccato, Methods and Systems for Utilizing Waste Sources of Metal Oxides, Patent No. 7,754,169 B2 (2010).

RECENT GRANTS

Singapore-Berkeley Project on Energy Efficiency ($44 Million for the whole international project), 2012-2017, various co-PIs.

Green Concrete and Sustainable Construction: A Multi-scale Approach ($ 8 Million), 2008-2015, KAUST.

NIST Grant to Study Fly-Ash, co-PI, 2009-2012.
Identification of Reactive Aggregates Using Neutron Diffraction and Development of Methods to Reduce the Alkali-silica Reaction Expansion, (Wenk, co-PI), $220,000, NSF, 2006-2010.
Minimization of the Stresses Generated by ICE Formation in Concrete, (Wenk, co-PI), NSF, $355,601, 2003-06.