Prof. Dr. João F.P. Fernandes received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, in 2017. From 2006 to 2013, he was a managing partner at Emove, Innovative Technologies, Lda, and an electrical engineer at Efacec, Engenharia e Sistemas. Since 2018, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Scientific Area of Energy, of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. His research interests include the development of new machine designs, the application of new materials in electrical machines, such as soft composites and superconducting materials, and the development of hybrid field computing tools. He has published several works in these areas, in international refereed journals and conferences. He is currently the PI of a national research project, was the PI of IST of the European project SEMS4USV from Frontex, and was a researcher at one PRR project and one research project with the Portuguese Army. He is an Associate Editor at IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion (IEEE, 2023–2024) and was a Guest Editor of the special issues Superconductors and Magnetic Materials (Crystals, 2023–2024), Future Generation Electric Machines and Drives (MDPI, 2022–2023), Electrical Machine Design 2020, Electrical Machine Design 2021 (Energies, 2020–2022), and Advanced Manufacturing and Materials for Next-Generation Electrical Machines (Energies, 2022–2023).