António Andrade-Campos is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro. He obtained his Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Coimbra with a grade of 17 and completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro in 2005. In 2015–17, he was program director of the Master's in Sustainable Energy Systems. He was also the Director of the Doctorate in Business Innovation (DBI) for 4 years (2019–2023), and he is now the Dean of the Doctoral School of the University of Aveiro. He is a recipient of the Young Investigator Prize, Prof. João Martins in Computational and Applied Mechanics 2015, the Special prize of the Jury of the Scientific prize of ESAFORM 2013, and won a COHITEC program and HiTechOne participation prizes. He is an effective member of the Portuguese National Engineers Association, the IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics), the ESAFORM Association, and the LWAG group (Light-weight Armour Group). He was a member of the ECCOMAS Young Investigator Committee, representing the Portuguese local association APMTAC, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the ESAFORM Association (European Scientific Association for Material Forming). His main fields of research are Computational Mechanics Applied to Engineering and Engineering Optimisation at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation of the University of Aveiro (TEMA).