JOSÉ DOMINGOS MOREIRA DA COSTA. Associate Professor at DEM-UC (Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Coimbra). He is PhD by UC (1991) in Mechanical Engineering. His teaching activity has been carried out at DEM-UC, since 1981, in the engineering mechanical design subjects. He has been responsible for the Mechanical Systems Design discipline for the last 33 years. He is expert in fatigue of materials (metals, polymers and composites) and fatigue of welded structures by conventional, laser and solid-state welding processes. He supervised (7) PhD theses and (54) MSc theses. He affiliates with the Center for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes (CEMMPRE) of the UC and is co-author of (337) publications, including (140) papers in scientific international journals (indexed in SCOPUS), 70% of which published in journals of the first quartile, and (45) conference papers indexed in SCOPUS. He has (3160) citations and a Scopus h-index of 33. Participated in thirty-two national research projects, including industrial projects. Actually, is vice director of DEM and responsible for the Fatigue Testing Laboratory. Its research activity is mainly focused on the following six areas: i) fatigue of welded joints; ii) mechanical behaviour of composite materials; iii) propagation of fatigue cracks; iv) prediction of fatigue crack initiation life; v) multiaxial fatigue; vi) fatigue of materials produced by AM. He is currently co-supervising three PhD theses. Two of them are in the area of friction welding of aluminium/magnesium hybrid joints and in light alloy/polymer matrix composites hybrid joints. The third is about the fatigue behaviour of composites with initial impact damage, subject to complex loading.