JP Nobre is a mechanical engineer specialising in residual stress analysis and the mechanical behaviour of materials. He obtained his MSc from the University of Coimbra in 1996 and completed his PhD in 2001, following research training at ISMCM (SupMeca), France, and the University of Kassel, Germany. Since 2007, he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at CFisUC. Between 2013 and 2023, he was also Associate Professor of Mechanical Design at WITS University, South Africa, where he led the Design and Mechatronics Stream and served as Visiting Professor. His research focuses on residual stress measurement, particularly incremental hole drilling (IHD) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), and on the influence of residual stresses on the mechanical behaviour of materials. His work also includes surface-treated metallic alloys, difficult-to-machine materials, polymer-matrix composites, fibre-metal laminates, additive and hybrid manufacturing. He has participated in international research projects in France, Germany, South Africa and Portugal, including DFG-funded collaborations, and has held invited academic positions at ENSAM, France. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students. Since 2014, he has served on the Scientific Committee of the European Group on Residual Stresses (ECRS), representing Mechanical Methods.