Hua Luo received her master's degree in landscape design from Jiangxi Agricultural University in 2011, and worked as the director of the Architecture Teaching and Research Office, which is managed by the department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Nanchang Institute of Technology (2015–2020). In 2023, she was promoted to an academic representative of NIT in the joint laboratory of NIT and UMinho in October of 2023. Her research interests mainly include ecoefficient materials, building information technology, and green building.
José Aguiar concluded his habilitation in civil engineering in 2008 and obtained his Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1990, both at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he now works as an associate professor. He has been Director of the Research Centre of Territory, Environment, and Construction since 2019 and Director of the Doctoral Program in Waste Management and Treatment since 2020. His main area of scientific activity is sustainable construction materials, as he believes that construction materials should increasingly adhere to the principles of sustainable construction. To develop sustainable construction materials, there is a need for research on all parts of their lifecycle.
Xiaoqi Wan received her master's degree in Ecology from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in 2013. She has worked as a teacher at Nanchang Institute of Technology since 2014. She has also worked as a laboratory teacher at the school of civil engineering since 2015, and was promoted to lecturer in 2017. Her research topics mainly include green building materials, recycled coarse aggregates, and recycled fine aggregates.
M.S. Yinggu Wang received her MS degree in Materials Science from Hainan University (HNU, China) with Prof. ZhiJun Li in 2015. Then, she joined Nanchang Institute of Technology in 2021 and currently works as a teacher focusing on concrete as a construction material.
Sandra Cunha has developed academic work as an auxiliary researcher at the University of Minho since May 2021. She obtained her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho (Portugal) on 6 September 2018 with a thesis entitled “Development and Characterization of Mortars with Incorporation of Phase Change Materials”, obtaining the maximum classification (Very Good). Since 2010, she has developed research on construction materials, sustainable construction, and the thermal comfort and energy efficiency of buildings. She has more than 90 publications: 1 granted patent, 3 theses, 1 book, 42 papers in international and national journals, 32 papers in proceedings of national and international conferences, 6 edited books, 5 edited journal issues, and 3 discipline notes. She is a member of the scientific committee of several conferences and has also conducted scientific reviews of several papers for high-scientific-impact journals.
Zhiyou Jia received his master's degree in Sustainable Construction and Rehabilitation from the University of Minho in 2021, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering. He now works as a Ph.D. student at the Center for Territory, Environment and Construction (2021–present). His research topics mainly include construction materials, smart concrete, sustainable concrete, and phase-change materials.
