Albertino Arteiro is currently Associate Professor at the Materials and Technological Processes Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto. He received a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering - Specialisation in Structural Engineering and Machine Design - from the Faculty of Engineering - University of Porto in 2012, and a Doctoral Degree in Mechanical Engineering (cum Laude) from the same University in 2016, during which he was a Visiting Student Researcher at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Stanford University. He was awarded the Best PhD Thesis by the Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics (APMTAC). He was appointed Assistant Professor in 2019 and Associate Professor in 2023. He was awarded with the Young Researcher Award Prof. João Martins in Applied and Computational Mechanics 2021 by APMTAC, and he is currently a member of the ECCOMAS (European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences) Young Investigators Committee. His research interests include characterisation, design, analysis and manufacturing of new classes of composite systems and composite materials modelling at different length-scales in support of virtual testing and certification by analysis.