Filipe Pais, Civil Enginner, MSc.

Invited Lecturer, University of Coimbra
Invited Lecturer, Universidade Aberta
PhD Student, University of Coimbra, supervised at INESCC

Filipe João Matos Costa Pais obtained his 5-year Integrated Master in Civil Engineering by the University of Coimbra (2016), and is currently a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, EfS - Sustainable Energy Systems Program.
His research addresses transportation infrastructure management, active modes of transport and sustainable mobilitiy using Geographical Information Systems and is supervised by senior researchers of INESC Coimbra R&D Unit.
He was awarded a PhD grant from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (the Portuguese public agency supporting science, technology, and innovation across all scientific fields, under the Ministry for Science, Technology, and Higher Education) to conduct research under the theme titled "Cityndex - an aggregated active accessibility indicator for hilly cities".
Additionally, he works as a lecturer at the University of Coimbra/Department of Civil Engineering, under the FCT scholarship status, teaching courses such as Engineering Systems and Decision Support Methods in Urban Systems. He also serves as a Tutor Professor (Operational Research) at Universidade Aberta.
He has published articles in esteemed international journals (Scopus/WoS) such as Municipal Engineering (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers) and Engineering Sustainability (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers).

Selected publications in scientific international journals:

Pais, F., Sousa, N., Coutinho-Rodrigues, J., Natividade-Jesus, E. (2024) Walking and cycling friendliness as proxies to retrofit active transport infrastructure.  Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer, in press (accepted for publication, 10/Dec/2024).

Monteiro, J., Sousa, N., Pais, F., Coutinho-Rodrigues, J., & Natividade-Jesus, E. (2023) Planning cities for pandemics: Review of urban and transport planning lessons from COVID-19. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.22.00030

Pais, F., Monteiro, J., Sousa, N., Coutinho-Rodrigues, J., & Natividade-Jesus, E. (2022) A multicriteria methodology for maintenance planning of cycling infrastructure. Engineering Sustainability - ICE, 175(5), 248–264. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.21.00088

Sousa, Nuno; Pais, Filipe; Natividade-Jesus, Eduardo; Coutinho-Rodrigues, João. "Design of pedestrian network friendliness maps". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer (2019): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.18.00051.

Projects:

He has been researcher in several INESCC projects, enumerated below:

CITYDEMICS - Planning Cities for Pandemics
Investment: 20000 €
Budget: 20000 €
Duration: 6 months (started September 2020)
Funding entity: Banco Santander / UC

Cityndex - an aggregated active accessibility indicator for hilly cities
Budget: 51582 € (Budget PhD Grant FCT)
Duration: 36+12 months (started 2021)
Funding entity: INESC Coimbra / FCT UI/BD/150868/2021
FCT grants: 1 PhD, 3 +1 years

CITYNDEX II - Soft Accessibility City Index
Budget: 8700 €
Duration: 15 months (6-2018 / 9-2019)
Funding entity: INESC Coimbra / FCT via no âmbito do Budget 2019 (UIDB/00308/2019)
FCT grant: 1 BI bachelor

CITYNDEX - Soft Accessibility City Index
Budget: 9600 €
Duration: 18 months (10-2016 / 03-2018)
Funding entity: INESC Coimbra / FCT, Project 2013 (UID/MULTI/00308/2013)
FCT grants: 1 BI grant / bachelor.