Maria Claudia BARBOSA
Associate Professor
Program of Civil Engineering
COPPE-UFRJ – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
E-mail: mclaudia@coc.ufrj.br
Degrees:
1979 Bachelor degree, Civil Engineering, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
1983 Master degree, Civil Engineering, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
1994 DSc. degree, Program of Civil Engineering, COPPE-UFRJ
Job record:
1981-1982 Assistant Lecturer, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
1983-1989 Geotechnical Engineer, Brazilian consulting companies
1992-1993 Visiting PhD student, Geotechnical Research Center, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
1994-1995 Assistant Researcher (scholarship), COPPE-UFRJ
1995-June Visiting Professor, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK
1995-2014 Assistant Professor, Program of Civil Engineering, COPPE-UFRJ
2014-present Associate Professor, Program of Civil Engineering, COPPE-UFRJ
Summary of activities:
Practical experience – Geotechnical design of earth dams, slope stability in mining and road projects, earth structures for waste disposal in industrial and mining plants.
Academic activities – Supervised 10 D.Sc. and 27 M.Sc. students until 2013, and 17 undergraduate students in Civil Eng. and in Environmental Engineering, with 14 more supervisions under way. Participated in several consulting and research projects, some of them in the coordination, including network research projects. Participated in the organization of congresses and technical meetings, as the ISSMGE Fourth ICEG (Int. Congress on Environmental Geotechnics) in Rio de Janeiro, 2002 (executive secretary). More than 100 publications in journals and international and national congresses proceedings. Participated in the direction of technical committees and regional divisions of the Brazilian Geotechnical Society (ABMS), and in administrative positions at the university.
Research interests:
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental engineering, with ongoing topics:
• Engineered waste containment facilities
• Remediation techniques – multiphase extraction, electrokinetics
• Long term analysis of tailings dams and mining waste piles
• Environmental impact and control in open detonation military sites
• Transport of contaminants in tropical soils and sediments
