João Paulo Correia Rodrigues is currently Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Civil Engineering Department of Coimbra University, in Portugal. He is expert in fire safety engineering and Professor of Civil and Fire Safety Engineering. He is author of over 300 scientific publications and supervised 7 PhDs, 6 postdocs and dozens of MSc thesis in the area. Member of several international scientific groups: CIB_W014_Fire, RILEM TCs HTC and BPH – Concrete at High Temperatures, ECCS TC3_Fire, FiB – TG 4.3 Fire Design of Concrete Structures and ISO TC 92 SC4_Fire Safety Engineering. Coordinator of National and EU research projects.