Prof. Miguel Tavares da Silva concluded his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lisbon (UL) in 2003. In 1997, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEM) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) as a Teaching Assistant and has served the department, as an Associate Professor, since 2015. He is the Executive Coordinator of the Lisbon Biomechanics Laboratory, a laboratory he helped to create and install in 2010. He conducts his scientific research at the Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC), where he has been an integrated member since 1992. He was a member of the Pedagogical Council of IST between 2017 and 2020 and the Mobility Coordinator of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST between 2015 and 2017. His current research interests encompass the analysis and simulation of musculoskeletal systems, the experimental acquisition of human movement, and the design of medical devices for manipulation and locomotion support.