Prof. Dr. Sergio Neves Monteiro graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1966. After graduation, he went to the University of Florida (UF) where he obtained master’s (1968) and doctorate (1972) degrees, both in Materials Science and Engineering. In 1976, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in Germany, at the University of Stuttgart. He was a full professor of the Metallurgical Engineering department at UFRJ and COPPE until he retired from his post at the university in 1993. Then he started working at the Darcy Ribeiro State University of the North of Rio de Janeiro (UENF), where he took part in the implementation of the university and created the Advanced Materials Laboratory. He was a full professor at UENF until 2012. Since 2012, he has been a collaborating professor at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), also in Brazil. Throughout his career, he held various management positions at UFRJ, UENF, the research foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC), the Department of Science and Technology of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials (ABM), among other institutions. He is the holder of a fellowship 1A from the Brazilian National Research Foundation (CNPq) for scientific productivity. He has published over 500 articles in national and international journals, as well as 58 book chapters.