SPFIE Award for the Best PhD Thesis

Objective: to award the best PhD thesis every 2 years

The “SPFIE Award for the Best PhD Thesis” is a Fracture and Structural Integrity Portuguese Association initiative with the goal of recognizing the work of newly doctored candidates in Portuguese Structural Integrity Engineering or similar areas. The winner will be selected within the candidates, according to the award regulations and announced on the biannual Structural Integrity Conference, acknowledging the Engineering students’ academic merit and promoting Engineering in society. Applications will be open until the end of the year prior to the Conference, and all PhD students finishing their thesis in the previous two years may apply.

Applications are open until December 31, 2025 January 15, 2026 to all students who completed their doctoral theses in 2022 to 2024. The award will be presented at the next Portuguese Conference on Fracture in the end of March 2026 (to be announced).

The jury is comprised of two permanent members and one invited personality.

Applications are submitted, with the respective thesis in pdf format to the email associacaoSPFIE@gmail.com.

Previous winners

Raul Domingos Ferreira Moreira
FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto
Thesis: Estudo do comportamento à fadiga de reparações adesivas de estruturas de alumínio com compósitos de carbono-epóxido

Pedro José da Silva Carvalho Pereira de Sousa (psousa@inegi.up.pt)
FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto
Thesis: Deformation monitoring of high-speed rotating targets

SPFIE Carrier Award

Objective: to award an outstanding researcher from the national community every 2 years

The “SPFIE Carrier Award” goal is to recognize the academic carrier and lifetime scientific activities of a distinguished Portuguese researcher. The award is attributed in the biannual Association Conference and decided by a jury comprised by the conference Chairperson (acting as the jury president) and the remaining members of the association executive committee.

To be delivered at the Society’s conference.

Chairman of the conference remains as president of the Jury and the others are composed of the ex. colleagues.

Previous winners

Winner 2021: Pedro Camanho, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Link

Winner 2024: Prof. Fátima Vaz, Instituto Superior Técnico

SPFIE Scientific Merit Award

The “SPFIE Scientific Merit Award” goal is to recognize the scientific developments and achievements by a Portuguese researcher in the area of Fracture and Structural Integrity, on the previous couple of years. The award is attributed in the biannual Association Conference and by a jury comprised by the association executive committee members.

Previous Winners

Professor Fernando Antunes (2022)

Professor Abílio de Jesus (2024)