Until 2015, he was a tenured Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He received his Licenciatura in 1991 in Mechanical Engineering, his MSc in 1995 and PhD in 2001, both in Composite Materials at IST. He developed his research activities within the Institute of Science and Engineering of Materials and Surfaces (ICEMS) until 2013, in the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC) between 2013 and 2015, and currently develops his research at the International Design Center (IDC) in Singapore. - Publishing and Research -