Elisabete Freitas
Elisabete Fraga de Freitas holds a BSc and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho. She has been a Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of that university since 1998. She develops research on surface characteristics of road pavements, including new surface functions and road safety. The present main areas of work are the investigation of tire/pavement interaction, particularly the analysis of its effect on annoyance, vehicle detection, and pedestrian behaviour, photocatalytic, self-cleaning, and anti-ice pavement surfaces, and also the investigation of accident factors, accident modelling, and pedestrian behaviour. She has been involved in several funded research national and international projects as a principal researcher and member in those areas. She is the author of more than 120 papers in international and national journals and conferences and is a member of the editorial board of four Scopus or WoS/SCI Indexed journals. Elisabete is an expert member of the Working Group CEN / TC 227 / WG 5 – Surface Characteristics – and coordinator of the mirror Sub-Committee.