José A.F.O. Correia is a researcher of CONSTRUCT/FEUP at the University of Porto (Portugal). Since 2018, he has been a guest teacher at the Civil Engineering and Geosciences Faculty of the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). He is an invited professor at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra (since 2016/09). He obtained the BSc (2007) and MSc (2009) degrees in civil engineering from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. He is the co-author of more than 150 scientific journal papers in the most relevant scientific journals, 250 proceedings in international and national conferences, congresses, and workshops, 12 book chapters, and 9 books. On the Scopus platform, he is the (co)author of 249 documents in scientific journals and has an h-index equal to 33. He is also a team member of the organization and participated in approved national (Portugal) and European research projects. Proof of the international recognition of his scientific activities was his recent appointment (January 2017) to the chairman of the technical committees called "ESIS TC12 - Risk analysis and safety of large structures and components" and "ESIS TC3 - Fatigue of Engineering Materials and Structures" of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS). He is a member of technical committees CEN TC250 SC3 WG 1-9 Fatigue and CEN TC250 SC3 WG 1-10 Fracture of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).