FINAL EVENT

Jose is Transport Infrastructure and Digitalisation area manager in the R&D department of CEMOSA, which provides engineering and quality control services in the field of civil, industrial and aeronautical engineering and architecture. He works in the field of transport infrastructures, focusing on the development of new digital technologies and the application of data science and artificial intelligence to enhance asset management and decision-support in infrastructures and mobility. He is the project coordinator of OMICRON, where CEMOSA has developed its in-house Digital Twin platform.

Claudia is a Project Officer with the European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency (CINEA). She holds a PhD from the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, where she also completed a degree in Engineering and Construction Management. With CINEA she oversees a diverse portfolio of projects in areas such as infrastructure, road safety and energy transition in ports. She manages calls for proposals, ensures the technical and financial success of projects and monitors their implementation under the H2020 and Horizon Europe frameworks. She also contributes to impact analysis, dissemination and collaboration with stakeholders. The OMICRON, InfraROB and HERON projects are among her current portfolio.

Session 1: Smart construction

Rita is Director of Innovation at Teixeira Duarte. She represents the company as President of the Portuguese Construction Technology Platform (PTPC), of the Portuguese Cluster AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction), and of Built CoLAB, as well as the Vice-Chair of the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP),a Member of ECTPs Steering Committee, and Chair of its Digital Built Environment Committee. She is also a permanent member of the partnership board Built4People for Horizon Europe and a Member of the Council Board of ENCORD, the European Network of Construction for Research and Development.

Anibal is Director of the GRVC Robotics Lab at University of Seville, where he is a Doctor of Engineering and Professor of Robotics. He has also been a professor at the universities of Malaga and Santiago de Compostela on the Vigo campus, and has carried out research stays at the French CNRS and the Robotics Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University of the United States in Pittsburgh. Among others, he is also the Scientific Director of FADA-CATEC in Seville. He is currently, worldwide, the researcher with the most publications related to unmanned aerial vehicles and aerial robotics.

Hamidreza is a Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Cambridge, specialising in the integration of advanced technologies such as Digital Twins, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) to enhance infrastructure management and sustainability. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and he has collaborated on numerous international projects, including AEGIR and OMICRON, to develop innovative solutions for infrastructure challenges. With extensive experience in developing decision support systems, Hamidreza has led efforts to improve the efficiency and accessibility of road maintenance and inspection processes. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and a book, showcasing his contributions to the digital transformation of the built environment.

Federico holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Road Transport Engineering. He is Head of Innovation, Study Center and European Projects within Autostrade per l’Italia Group, leading the way to foster innovation within the organisation. He previously led over 20 research projects at RINA, in the energy & transport domain, and managed R&D and business initiatives as Head of Strategic Projects at AISCAT in Italy, Europe and Western Balkans. Internationally, he contributed to ASECAP (European Association of Operators of Toll Road Infrastructures) and IBTTA (International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association) technical committees on technology and infrastructure. He also served the IBTTA Foundation as Board Member.

Saimir is a structural engineer with a Master degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Genoa. Since 2018, when he joined the Design Division of Rina Consulting his experience has been focused on the structural design, management and assessment of buildings and infrastructures. His activity has been mainly focused on Infrastructure assessment, retrofit and numerical modelling methods applied to bridge and building structures, improved and made more effective using programming languages. 

He has a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Genoa and experience participating in European research projects dealing with risk and resilience assessment of critical infrastructures.

Balázs is a software developer proficient in both front-end and back-end technologies, with 4+ years of professional experience in designing, developing and deploying robust Web applications. His achievements include developing an AI-powered speech recognition portal, building a customs clearance Web application and contributing to a data privacy portal. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics from Corvinus University of Budapest and a passion for continuous learning.

With a background in Industrial Engineering, Paula has been a member of CEMOSA’s R&D department since May 2021, specialising in the transport infrastructures and mobility sector. Her work focuses on advancing digitalisation and monitoring technologies, particularly in structural health monitoring, data science, artificial intelligence, geographical data management, and programming. Additionally, she is actively involved in project management, contributing to the development of European and national research projects.

Muhammad is Adjunct Professor & Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy. His main research interests are infrastructure maintenance planning and impact evaluation, transport modelling with autonomous vehicles, micro-mobility planning, transportation planning, sustainable urban mobility and agent-based travel demand modelling.

Nikos is a researcher at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and holds a PhD in machine learning, computer vision and signal processing. He has made significant contributions to fields such as the protection of water infrastructures through multimodal data fusion and adaptive deep learning, as well as the detection of anomalous events using advanced neural network models. With more than 30 publications in international journals and conferences, his work has been widely cited, showcasing its impact on the scientific community. Additionally, he has participated in European research projects focused on cybersecurity and the monitoring of critical infrastructures.

Leandro is a Research Associate at the Institute for Traffic Route Construction in the Technical University of Darmstadt. He has previous experience as a Site Manager with STRABAG Großprojekte GmbH. He holds a Master’s degree in Mobility and Infrastructure from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Søren leads work in the ‘Tiny Mobile Robots’ company towards autonomous interventions using robots for line painting, crack and pothole repair.

Paoloa is Associate Professor of Roads, Railways and Airports at DICEA, Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering of the University of Rome ‘Sapienza’. She is also affiliated to AIPSS, the Italian Association of Road Safety Professionals.

José Ramón holds a degree in Chemistry. He has worked in the asphalt pavement sector since 1994, joining Pavasal Empresa Constructora S.A.U. as Head of the Central Laboratory in the Quality Control department. Since 2011, he has led the company’s R&D&I Department, managing research projects, publishing technical articles, and presenting at industry conferences. In 2024, his team received the ACEX Award and the Juan Antonio Fernández del Campo International Road Innovation Award.

At Eiffage Construction, Miguel is a R&D Project Manager. His main roles are coordination and management of funding R&D projects (regional, national and European). His technical expertise focuses on AI-based technologies and automation. He holds a MSc in Engineering.

Joaquín is Scientific Coordinator of InfraROB H2020 project. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Vigo, where he also gained his degree as a Telecommunications Engineer with a specialisation in Electronics and a PhD-Doctor Europeus in Environmental Technology. He is Principal Investigator of e-Hydro and RoadS2Win, both national projects with a focus on Digital Twin  technologies for infrastructure management, and, aimed at improving infrastructure maintenance with autonomous robotised solutions.

Rade is co-founder and President of the firm Infrastructure Management Consultants. After receiving his doctorate in 1990 at the ETH Zürich, he was employed by Emch + Berger AG before founding the firm Dr. J. Grob und Partner, which specialised in engineering structures construction, structural safety and computer-aided engineering solutions. In 2001 Dr. Hajdin became a Visiting Professor of Infrastructure Management at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Jesús is Chair of the OMICRON External Advisory Board (EAB) and similar groups of external experts that follow the results of European R&D projects on transport infrastructures, including Foresee (on resilience of networks of roads and railways); Liaison (for sustainability & circularity of roads and railways); Bridgitise (an industrial doctoral network on digitalised bridge lifecycle management). He is also Chairman of the Spanish Mirror Group Eurocode 2 on Concrete structures. He has previously been R&D Director of Dragados (ACS Group) and Associate professor in structures (UPM). He has a PhD in Civil Engineering.

Session 7: Future of safe and intelligent road management