Carla Marchão received her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering / Structures (2015) from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and also holds a M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering and a B.Eng in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.
After working in industry for 11 years and teaching at the Civil Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico for 7 years, she joined the Department of Civil Engineering at NOVA University of Lisbon as a Teaching Assistant in 2007 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2015.