Announcing the 2025 MAJR Award Winner
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SSRC is excited to announce that Dr. André Martins has been selected to be the recipient of SSRC’s 2025 McGuire "MAJR" Medal. We invite you to join us in congratulating Dr. Martins on this accomplishment, and encourage you to attend his accompanying presentation on April 21 at the 2026 Annual Stability Conference.
Meet Dr. Martins
Dr. André Martins is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering (DECivil) of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST-UL). He holds a PhD degree in Civil Engineering (Structural Stability) from the IST-UL, with a thesis focused on cold-formed steel (CFS) members affected by interaction phenomena involving distortional buckling. Since then, he has remained affiliated with DECivil at IST-UL. His main research interests include analysis, behavior, and design of thin-walled structures, particularly the structural stability of CFS Structures, and, more recently, Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) composites. His research activities involve instability phenomena (local, distortional, global, and coupled buckling), development of design proposals, experimental testing, structural reliability and reliability-based code calibration. He has co-authored two book chapters, 45 international journal papers, and 52 papers in international and national conference proceedings.
2025 MAJR Medal
The McGuire Award for Junior Researchers (MAJR Medal) was established in honor of the late Professor William “Bill” McGuire, a long-term member of SSRC, who emphasized that state-of-the-art research is instrumental to improve the quality of stability design. The award recognizes the research activity of the candidate in a period not exceeding ten years after obtaining their Ph.D. degree.
Dr. Martins was chosen for his high-quality and cutting-edge stability focused research, and his strong record of professional engagement seeking to translate research into practice. He will be presented with the award at the 2026 SSRC Annual Stability Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Martins will also give a lecture in conjunction with the SSRC Annual Business Meeting on April 21.