Paulo Tavares graduated in Physics in 1989 at the Sciences Faculty of Porto’s University. He joined Texas Instruments (TI), Portugal in 1989, where he worked for ten years in Quality and Reliability Assurance (QRA), first as a Failure Analysis Engineer and then as Failure Analysis Laboratory Supervisor. During that period, he took a MSc in Lasers and Optoelectronics at the Sciences Faculty of Porto University. He also worked in TI Dallas, TX, and Freising, Germany for extended periods. After TI shut the Porto operation, he started a private technical consulting business, Prudente & Tavares consulting Ltd. where he still holds a management, non-remunerable position. He joined the doctoral programme in Mechanical Engineering of the Engineering Faculty of Porto’s University, having worked in Three-Dimensional Image Acquisition with active methods. His thesis was approved unanimously with distinction in 2010. To date, he published 96 papers in international journals with peer review or conferences, which have been cited over 1400 times, and he made 14 oral communications in international conferences. He is an h23 researcher according to international standards (cf. Scopus or ResearcherID). He started the SPIE Iberia chapter – Society for Photo-optical and Instrumentation Engineers. He is also a founding member and serves on the board of both the Portuguese Fracture and Structural Integrity Society (SPFIE) and the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society (SPOF). Dr. Tavares is a non-governmental expert (CnGE) with the European Defence Agency in CapTechs Ground, Naval, Air, Materials & Structures and Optronics, and a former member of ACARE, the Advisory Council for Aviation Research in Europe, WG2 on Industrial Leadership. From 2002 to 2010 he taught several subjects in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Finance and Tax, IESF. He was invited to the board of the institute in 2008 as Vice-President of the Board in 2010. He quit the Institute and joined a research team in Crack Propagation and Structural Health Monitoring at the Optics and Experimental Mechanics Laboratory of INEGI in 2012, where he currently works as senior researcher. Dr. Tavares supervised or co-supervised the activity of several research MSc and PhD students in Mechanical Engineering, on the development of advanced techniques and methods in Optical Metrology and image sensors. He has been appointed Research Coordinator of INEGI’s Advanced Monitoring and Structural Integrity unit. Dr. Tavares is also involved in the pursuit of a hybrid experimental/numerical method for accurate determination of the Stress Intensity Factor in fatigue crack growth with Digital Image Correlation and Thermo-elastic Stress Analysis, for the expedite evaluation of fatigue crack growth in field work. He also developed and optimized a dedicated illumination device for crack growth measurement with a vision system, which has been patented under nr. 107907, and the vision system software itself. Dr. Tavares organized the first Iberia conference for Optics Researchers in 2004 and has been co-chair of the conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity, IJSI, the International Conference on Structural Analysis of Advanced Materials, ICSAAM2015, and the International Conferences on Structural Integrity – ICSI2015/2017/2019/2021 and 2023. He is an active member in SPIE, ESIS, SPOF, EOS and SPFIE technical societies.