Dr. Xin Xue is currently a full-time professor at Fuzhou University in China. He received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) in 2016. He has published approximately 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and international conference proceedings. His main research interests are based on elastic-porous materials. His other fields of interest are the mechanics of materials, vibration, metal-forming processes, and industrial design optimization.