Jorge Pais is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minho (UM) in Portugal. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minho. Before his current position, Dr. Pais worked as a research assistant with the pavement research group at UM. He holds Bachelor's (1990) and Master's (1993) degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Porto in Portugal. He was vice-head of the Department of Civil Engineering from 2005 to 2012 and head from 2012 to 2016. Jorge Pais' teaching areas include Geometric Highway Design, Road Pavement Design, and Railway Design in undergraduate and post-graduate courses at UM. Jorge Pais' research areas include pavement materials' design and characterisation, advanced laboratory testing, field performance evaluation, maintenance, and rehabilitation techniques. He has been involved in fatigue, reflective cracking, cracking propagation, and the characterisation of asphalt rubber hot mixes' in the area of materials. Recently, he has been working on detecting cracking in road pavements using Ground-Penetrating Radar.