Carlos Humberto Martins

Civil Engineer graduated from the School of Engineering of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo (EESC-USP), with a Masters degree (2004) and a Ph.D. (2008) in Structural Engineering from the same institution. He is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of Maringá (UEM), where he serves as Director of Graduate Studies and has been a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (PCV/UEM) since 2013. Since 2021, he has also been a member and in the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (PPGECiv) at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). He has been a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow since 2021 and is a member of the Advisory Committee in Engineering at Fundação Araucária (term 20252028, Act 41/2025). He coordinates the Research Group in Numerical Analysis GPNUM (www.gpnum.com.br), developing research focused on numerical analysis of steel and composite steelconcrete structures using the Finite Element Method (ABAQUS software). He is the founder and chair of the organizing committee of the 1st Brazilian Congress on Composite Structures (CBEM). He serves as a reviewer for several structural engineering journals and has coordinated over 24 research projects (with and without funding). He has advised 36 Masters dissertations, 4 Ph.D. theses, 4 postdoctoral projects, 65 undergraduate research projects, and more than 70 undergraduate theses. He was the advisor of award-winning works in national competitions: Academic Award from Sinduscon (2016 and 2018) and 3rd place in the CBCA Sustainable Structures Award (2023). He has published over 114 articles in scientific journals and presented more than 210 papers at national and international conferences. He served as Director of Academic Affairs at UEM (20202022), Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (PCV/UEM) in 2019, and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Civil Engineering at UEM from 2014 to 2018. He was a faculty member and advisor in the Graduate Program in Urban Engineering (PEU/UEM) from 2009 to 2019. He also coordinated the MARCA Program (Mercosur Academic Mobility Program) between 2014 and 2020. He acts as an evaluator of undergraduate courses and institutional evaluations within the BASIS/INEP and BIPE (International Bank of Peer Reviewers for MERCOSUR) systems. He is an evaluator of civil engineering programs for the Special Evaluation Committee of the State Higher Education System of Paraná (SETI/PR) and serves as item writer and reviewer for the National Item (BNI) of ENADE for civil engineering courses. He was a Research Productivity Fellow at Fundação Araucária (20142016) and served as a member of the Engineering Advisory Committee at Fundação Araucária (20172020). His citation metrics include h-index 19 (Web of Science), h-index 21 (Scopus), and h-index 23 (Google Scholar). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)