Gilmar Ferreira Batalha obtained his diploma for mechanical engineering at the University of Brasilia (Brazil) in 1983; a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis (Brazil), in 1987; a doctorate in promotion mechanical engineering (Dr. Engineer) in 1996; and the title of free-docent in 2010, with the latter two both obtained at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. From 1984 to1989, he was an adjunct professor at the State University of Santa Catarina in Joinville, Brazil. Since 1989, he has been a tenured associate professor in the Dept. of Mechatronics and Mechanical Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of the University of São Paulo. He is a Master's-grant-awarded fellow of the Brazilian National Committee of Nuclear Energy (CNEN); recipient of a CAPES postdoctoral internship at the Manufacturing Institute of Technology (Lehrstuhl für Fertigunstechnologie, LFT, Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany) (1997–1999); visiting professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lille, France (2004–2006); invited visiting professor at the Technical University of Silesia, Gliwice, Poland (2012); and associate editor of Archives of Materials Science and Engineering, an MDPI periodical.