Paulo Amado Mendes completed his PhD in Civil Engineering, specialization in Construction Sciences, at the University of Coimbra (UC), in 2010. Presently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of UC (DEC-UC). He is one of the Coordinators of the Master Course on Acoustic and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction and he is the Local Coordinator at UC of the international Erasmus Mundus JMD WAVES (Waves, Acoustics, Vibration, Engineering and Sound). As a researcher member, he integrates the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering - ISISE at the UC, he belongs to the Functional Performance research group, and he coordinates the Acoustics and Vibrations (A&V) research cluster within FP. He is a member of the Board of the Portuguese Acoustical Society (SPA). His present research interests include: wave scattering by cracks or heterogeneities; numerical modelling with FEM, BEM and other numerical meshless methods; non-destructive evaluation techniques and structural health monitoring; building, environmental, historical and applied acoustics; and acoustic materials, systems and metamaterials. He has participated as a team member and coordinated several funded research and applied research projects, being co-author of 59 papers published in indexed peer reviewed journals, 5 book chapters and 162 papers published in conference proceedings. He has co-supervised 4 concluded PhD Theses and 42 concluded MSc theses.