Luiz Carlos Marcos Vieira Junior

Biography

Luiz Vieira attended Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), in Brazil, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and his Professional Engineering degrees. At UEL, he started his research career, working with numerical methods and structural design methods. From 2003 to 2004, he worked for a consultancy and design company where he was involved in the structural design and analysis of multiple structural systems. In 2005, he enrolled in the Master of Science program at Universidade de São Paulo (USP-EESC), also in Brazil, where he did research on the behavior and strength of steel structures. He received his Master's degree from USP-EESC in 2007 and thereafter started his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University under the advising of Professor Benjamin Schafer. His dissertation presents and discusses several important findings on the behavior and strength of sheathed braced wall studs based on full-scale tests, numerical analyses, and reliability analyses. After teaching at the University of New Haven for two years, Luiz Vieira joined Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) as an Assistant Professor in 2013. At the end of 2016, Vieira became director of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory (LabMeC-FEC) and Co-PI of a large research project developed for PETROBRAS on the development of software to predict the behavior and strength of the interface well-reservoir. In 2019, Luiz Vieira was selected as a 2019 Eisenhower Fellow for his proposal on shaping the next generation of Brazilian engineers to work on disaster resilience, mitigation, and adaptation. As a Structural Engineer and Professor at Unicamp, Vieira has analyzed how natural and induced disasters affect the built environment, which has also allowed him to directly observe the effects on vulnerable communities. Luiz Vieira has been doing most of his research on risk analysis, sensitivity analysis, extreme events, and reliability of structural systems.