JOAQUIM M. VIEIRA is Full Professor of the Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering, since 1999 and Vice-Director of CICECO - Center for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials from foundation in February 2002 to December 2020, both of University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. He get the Aggregation (Habilitation) in Materials Science and Engineering, Aveiro University, 1997, and PhD in the Department of Ceramics of Leeds University, England, in 1981, with equivalence to Doctorate by Aveiro University in 1982. He graduated in Physics, Lisbon University, in 1976. Since the beginning of his academic carrier in 1976 in the Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, University of Aveiro he held the following positions in the Department: Full Professor since June 1999, Associate Professor started in 1987, and Auxiliary Professor, in 1982, lecturer as Assistant in 1978 and Training Assistant started in December 1976. Scientific publications and works authored/co-authored by him include a total 105 scientific papers in SCI journals of principal collection of Web of Science, 1 patent, 3 book chapters and 45 other papers. He has been active in teaching, training and leading research in the domains processing of electronic and structural ceramics, composites, thin films: synthesis, sintering and thin film deposition of oxides. Develops collaborative research in the fields of magnetoresistive, superconducting and multiferroic oxides, laser floating zone solification, aerosol assisted MOCVD, composites, high resolution electron microscopy, wear resistant materials. Present research interest go from laser floating zone processing of ceramic superconductor fibers, with new developments by assisting texture development with electrical current during solidification, to superconducting thin films, colossal magnetoresistive ceramics and improper ferroelectrics prepared by MOCVD and sputtering. His research includes the crystalline structure of the solid solutions of the CMR phases and multiferroic materials as a function of composition and isothermal annealing with controlled oxygen partial pressure. Other domains of on-running research are: i) Processing by pressureless melt infiltration of ceramic carbide matrix composites toughened by light alloy intermetallics of Ni-Al, Fe-Al and Ti-Al systems; ii) Microwave enhanced slip casting and drying of conventional whiteware ceramics; iii) Tribology of ceramics: wear resistance mapping, wear resistance of melt infiltrate ceramic matrix composites, subsurface damage of eroded and machined surfaces of hard ceramic materials and strength; iv) High resolution electron microscopy of ceramic materials and thin films; v) Sintering science, uniaxial hot-pressing and hot-isostatic-pressing of structural ceramics and ceramic based composites v) Reusing and recycling of materials He became member of SPCV-Sociedade Portuguesa da Cerâmica e do Vidro branched to ECERS- European Ceramic Society, since foundation of SPCV in 1981, having been Secretary of Directing Board of SPCV in the two years mandate, 1989-1991. He is President of General Assembly of SPCV at present time. He is member of SPM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais affiliated to the E-MRS.