Professors

Carlos Oliveira Cruz

Founder & Coordinator
Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment of Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and Invited Professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brasil).
Carlos serves as Associate Editor in the Journal of Management in Engineering, Assistant Editor in Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Associate Editor in Buildings and Sustainability, Member of the Editorial Board of the International Jounal of Project Managemet and serves on the Editoral Board of 6 other journals.
Carlos is the Head of the Construction Management Unit. He was a consultant to several public and private entities, in Portugal and abroad in projects of investment evaluation, structuring of concessions, and regulation of infrastructures. He was a Visiting Scholar at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), where he developed work in the area of renegotiation of transportation concession contracts and was Vice-President of CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability.

Awards and Distinctions

  • Menção Honrosa nos prémios científicos da Universidade de Lisboa na área de Engenharia Civil (2020)
  • 5 prémios Outstanding Reviewer/ Top 1% (duas vezes no Journal of Infrastructure Systems – ASCE, Journal of Management in Engineering – ASCE, Publons)
    • 2020 Outstanding reviewer pelo Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE)
    • 2019 Outstanding reviewer pelo Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE)
    • 2019 Publons Peer Review Awards – Top 1% in Cross-Fields
    • 2018 Publons Peer Review Awards – Top 1% in Engineering
    • 2017 Outstanding reviewer pelo Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE)
  • 12 distinções Docente Excelente (Instituto Superior Técnico)
    • Avaliação Imobiliária e Manutenção das Construção (Prática) (2015/2016)
    • Economia da Construção e do Imobiliário (Teórica) (2017/2018)
    • Economia da Construção e do Imobiliário (Prática) (2017/2018)
    • Tecnologia da Construção de Obras de Engenharia (Prática) (2018/2019)
    • Economia da Construção e do Imobiliário (Teórica) (2019/2020)
    • Economia da Construção e do Imobiliário (Prática) (2019/2020)
    • Tecnologia da Construção de Obras de Engenharia (Prática) (2020/2021)
    • Economia da Construção e do Imobiliário (TP) (2021/2022)
    • Organização e Gestão de Obras I (TP) (2021/2022)
    • Engenharia Civil e Sustentabilidade Ambiental (TP) (2021/2022)
    • Organização e Gestão de Obras II (TP) (2021/2022)
    • Organização e Gestão de Obras I (TP) (2022/2023)
  • 1 prémio Best Paper Award em Conferência (European University Institute, 6th Conference on Regulating Infrastructure)
  • 1 prémio Best Policy-Oriented Paper 2019 no Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (ASCE, IF2018=3,404)
  • 1 nomeação para best paper award em 2013 no Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Construction

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