Rui Marreiros received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering / Structures (2014) from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and also holds a M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon and a B.Eng in Civil Engineering from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at NOVA University of Lisbon as a Teaching Assistant in 2005 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2014.