Jose TURMO

Full Professor | PhD MSc BSc in Civil Engineering

Dr. Jose Turmo (Spain, 1974) got his 6-year program degree in Civil Engineer (1998) from University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain) and his PhD (2003) in Construction Engineering from Technical University of Catalonia BarcelonaTech- UPC (Barcelona, Spain). At the moment, he is Professor in the School of Civil Engineering in Barcelona, BarcelonaTech (Spain), where he teaches Bridge and Construction Engineering. His area of expertise is Construction and Maintenance of Concrete Bridges and Structures and Structural System Identificaction. He has done several research stays as a postdoc, being appointed as Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2005), Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, USA (2006) and Kwang-Hua Visiting Professor (2010) and High End Foreign Expert (2014-2016) at the Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has authored around sixty SCI papers and one hundred conference papers.

Research Interest

Topics as different as structural behaviour of externally prestressed concrete bridges, applications of high performance concrete, shear strength of concrete structures, dynamics of cable suspended bridges, structural analysis of bridge construction, structural maintenance, model updating or structural monitoring has been addressed by him, as well as improvement of health and safety and environmental issues of bridge construction.

Selected papers

Since 2006 he has published more than 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Full details on the publication activity may be found in my Futur or Scopus.

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=9237960000
Futur: https://futur.upc.edu/jose.turmo

Teaching

From 1998 on, he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in six Universities all around the world, Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay), University of Castilla-La Mancha UCLM (Spain), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras IITM (India), UPC BarcelonaTech (Spain), Tongji University (China) and École Superieure de Travaux Publics – ESTP Paris (France), three of them in the top 50 in the Civil Engineering ranking. Topic of his teaching has been very broad , including: Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete, Steel Structures, Building Technology, Bridge Technology and Construction Methods and Planning of Civil Infrastructure, which gave him a very broad vision of the construction industry. He has also been involved in the organization and teaching of specialization courses in different countries. He has published several papers for international conferences about active learning and academic curriculum development.

Awards, Honors and Societies

He is member of ACHE (Spanish –Association of Structural Engineering) and IABMAS (International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety). He is the president of the Spanish group of IABMAS. He is the President of the Board of EUCEET (European Civil Engineering Education and Training) Association, association of main European Civil Engineering Schools. He is an international expert of CTI (Quality Assurance Agency for the Schools of Engineering in France).

He got the 2006 Doctoral Extraordinary Award. Civil Engineering. UPC; the 2006 Award to the best doctoral dissertation of the academic year 2003-2004. School of Civil Engineering, Barcelona, Spain; 2004 Nevada Medal for Distinguished Graduate Student Paper in Bridge Engineering. University of Nevada, Reno. USA.