Célio Fernandes obtained his Education of Mathematics degree from the University of Minho (Portugal), where he received the Engineer António de Almeida Award, prize for students with the best final graduation score (16/20). After graduating, C. Fernandes obtained his Applied Mathematics MSc degree at the University of Porto (Portugal). During this period, C. Fernandes has employed spectral methods to describe the melt flow which occurs in the polymer extrusion process. Afterwards, C. Fernandes joined the Department of Polymer and Composites at the University of Minho (Portugal) where he completed his Ph.D. degree in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites in December 2012. During this period, C. Fernandes made important contributions to the field of Injection Molding Process by applying multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to solve the inverse problem of finding the best injection molding parameters to achieve predefined criterias. During his post-doctoral studies, C. Fernandes has been working with the open-source computational fluid dynamics library OpenFOAM. From February 2024, C. Fernandes joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Porto has an Assistant Professor. He has established new numerical methods for the solution of viscoelastic matrix based fluids using the finite volume method.