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José Tadeu Balbo

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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Politécnica (EP)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Full Professor of Transportation Infrastructure at the Polytechnic School of USP. Civil Engineer (1984), Master in Transportation Engineering (1990) and PhD in Engineering (1993), all from the University of São Paulo with a CAPES sandwich doctorate program at the Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich, Switzerland (1992-1993). Full Professor in Pavement Design and Construction (1999). Member of the Concrete Pavements Committee of the Transportation Research Board (AFD50), from 2003 to 2012 and member of the Pavement Rehabilitation Committee (AFD70), from 2011 to 2017 (TRB - National Academy of Sciences); associate member of the European Committee on Concrete Roads (C7-PIARC) from 1996 to 2000. Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (2014-2022); Associate Editor of the IBRACON Journal of Structures and Materials (2016-2014). Member of the editorial board of the IBRACON Journal of Concrete and Construction (2011-2017). Liaison member for Brazil (2001-2006) of the International Society for Concrete Pavements - ISCP - Maryland, USA; director of ISCP (2006-2010) and Vice-President of ISCP (2010 to 2014). Coordinator of the concrete highways committee of the Brazilian Institute of Concrete - IBRACON (2004-2019); Secretary Director of IBRACON (2011-2013); Advisor to the Presidency of IBRACON (2013-2018); Technical Director of IBRACON (2019-2021). Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008, research on thin concrete pavements. Visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota in 2008, research on asphalt resurfacing on concrete pavements (Minnesota Department of Transportation). His research interests include concrete pavements, pavement materials, pavement management, pavement mechanics and pavement instrumentation, structural modeling of asphalt pavements, recycling of concrete pavements and alternative materials (urban, highway, airport and port infrastructures). He is the author of two textbooks on asphalt pavements. He is also the author of "Concrete Pavements" and "Permeable Concrete Pavements". He has extensive experience in analyzing the degradation of asphalt and concrete pavements, having analyzed several cases and issued opinions to numerous private companies and public agencies such as the former DNER, DNIT, PMSP, ARTESP, INFRAERO and the Brazilian Army. He also works in the area of #8203;#8203;productivity and cost calculation for earthmoving and paving works. Member of the Commission for Standardization of Materials and Paving Design Techniques of PMSP since 2002, having been responsible for the introduction of concrete pavement design techniques. Main author of Technical Standard ABNT PR 1011/2021 for urban concrete pavement projects. He has extensive experience in laboratory test instrumentation and field pavement instrumentation. He has experience in teaching and researching paving at an international level. He was Vice-President of the EPUSP Undergraduate Committee (2008-2010). He was Head of the Department of Transportation Engineering at EPUSP (2014-2018) and was Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Transportation Engineering at EPUSP (1994 to 1997; 2015 to 2019). Member of the Ethics and Human Rights Committee (2016-2020). He was President of the Postgraduate Committee of the Polytechnic School of USP and Member of the Postgraduate Council of the University of São Paulo (2020-2022). Elected advisor of IBRACON. Member of the Dispute Board for the Transition Commission of the Mário Covas Metropolitan Beltway, northern section, appointed by the Granting Authority (State of SP). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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