Tessaleno Campos Devezas received his bachelor's degree in Physics (1969) from the Physics Institute of the University of Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; master's degree in Materials Science (1974) from the Army Engineering Institute (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (1981) from the Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften der Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. He is currently a Full Professor at Atlântica, Instituto Universtário, Lisbon, Portugal), and Research Member of the Research Unity nº 151 C-MAST (Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies—Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, FCT, Lisbon, Portugal)). He was honored with the "Elsevier Best Paper Prize 2001" for his paper proposing a model explaining the mechanism underlying long economic waves (Kondratieff waves) in 2002, and received an Honor Mention from Elsevier in 2006. In 2004, he was awarded the Silver Kondratieff Medal by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences for his written contributions toward understanding Kondratieff waves. He is the author/co-author of more than 70 scientific papers published in several international scientific periodicals and the author/co-editor of 15 books.