Pedro A. Prates is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Production Technologies, from the University of Coimbra in 2014. He was a researcher at the University of Coimbra from 2010 to 2021, where he also lectured as an Invited Assistant Professor. He participates in several national and European research projects; he is also the Principal Investigator of the project EZ-SHEET, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. His research mainly focuses on sheet metal-forming processes, namely inverse strategies for identifying material parameters, process design, and optimisation under uncertainties and machine learning applications; his research interests also include elastic-plastic fracture mechanics.