INTERNACIONAIS
Keynotes
1. Climate effects in compacted embankments and excavated slopes - COST Action TU1210 - Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure, Lisbon, 23rd October 2014, Portugal.
Invited lectures1. Degradation of marls due to suction changes: Impact in slope excavation and embankment construction - Lecturer in the 7th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz ?Unsaturated Soil Mechanics: From Fundamentals to Applications? course on May 25th-29th 2015 in Barcelona (Spain), 29th May 2015, Spain.
2. Soil improvement using ureolytic bacteria and monitoring tools - 4th International Congress on Biomaterials and Biosensors (BIOMATSEN)?, 17th May 2019, Blue Lagoon, Fethiye / Mugla, Turkey.
3. Field application of biocementation: how laboratorial tests can help. 3rd Edition of AGERP -International Workshop on Biogeotechnics, 24 February de 2022 (Online)
Invited Presentations
1. Degradation of compacted marls ? a micro structural investigation - ALERT Geomaterials Workshop 2007, Session 1: Geomechanics of structured materials. Aussois, 8th October 2007, France.
2. Modeling of embankments built with soft rock materials - International Seminar on Interaction soil-rail track for high speed railways. Geotechnical Aspects. Lisboa, 24th September 2008, Portugal.
3. Physical degradation of excavated slopes of Jurassic marls when subjected to suction changes ? Mediterranean Workshop on Landslides, Nápoles, 21st October 2013, Italy.
4. Electro-hydro-mechanical behaviour of natural and improved soils - EPFL, Lausanne, 2nd March 2016, Switzerland.
5. Experimental Study on the Electro-hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Clays. RUB University, Bochum, 24th January 2017, Germany.
6. Microfabricated sol-gel relative humidity sensors for soil suction measurement during laboratory tests. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, 17th May 2017, Spain.
7. Pore clogging during biological processes. GETE Winter course for the EPFL students, 25th January 2019, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.
8. Hydro-mechanical Behaviour of Compacted Marls. 1st March, 2019, ENPC, Paris, France.
9. Electrically induced settlements of clay consolidated slurries. 12 February 2020, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
10. Biocementation from a chemo-hydro-mechanical coupled behaviour perspective. 2 July 2021, Barcelona, Spain (online)
11. R. Cardoso - Biocementation of soils from laboratory tests towards field application, 3rd International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering, Materials -22, 18-20 April 2022, Boston (in presence)
NACIONAIS
Keynotes
1. Influência Das Acções Atmosféricas Na Funcionalidade De Estruturas Geotécnicas - Conferência especial proferida no Prémio dos Jovens Geotécnicos - XIII Congresso Nacional de Geotecnia. Instituto Superior Técnico, 17 de Abril de 2012.
Por convite
2. Colóquio Vulnerabilidade Sísmica de Edifícios Antigos de Alvenaria da Cidade de Lisboa apresentado no Instituto Superior Técnico a convite da Associação do Pessoal Docente e Investigador do IST, Instituto Superior Técnico, 2 de Julho de 2003.
3. Utilização Das Curvas De Retenção Para Caracterização Da Estrutura Do Material LECA - Seminário - Estudos fundamentais e aplicados sobre agregados leves de argila expandida. Uma abordagem geotécnica - LNEC, 27 de Maio de 2009.
4. Biocimentação como técnica de melhoramento de terrenos - Seminário na Aula Aberta sobre Biocimentação, IST, 26 de Outubro de 2018
5. Biocimentação como Técnica de Melhoramento de Terrenos - Seminário FUNDEC, Técnico+ Formação Avançada, Online, 30 de Abril de 2020
6. Comportamento de Estruturas Geotécnicas Considerando as Acções Atmosféricas - Seminário FUNDEC, Técnico+ Formação Avançada, Online, 21 de Maio de 2020