>> SCOPUS: 25 docs | +470 citations | h-index = 11 <<>> GOOGLE SCHOLAR: 62 docs | 760 citations | i10 index = 16 | h-index = 13 <<>> R&D PROJECTS: 11 as coordinator (3+ MEUR) | 10 as participant (7+ MEUR) [as of 5/feb/2021] << Dr. César Vasques graduated in 2000 and got MSc and PhD pre-Bologna degrees in 2003 and 2008 in Mechanical Engineering from University of Porto (U.Porto), Portugal. During his post-graduation, he worked on vibration control of adaptive multifunctional structures. He was granted PhD and post-doc scholarships, and a Marie Curie visiting PhD student fellowship in 2004 for a 1 year stay at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK. Since 2008 he has worked in R&D, technology transfer and consulting in dynamics, vibrations, structural acoustics, structural health monitoring and composite materials/structures. From 2009-14 he was Senior Researcher at INEGI-U.Porto, Portugal. From 2014-2018 he was invited Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering of Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/P.PORTO). From 2014-2017 he was Senior R&D Engineer at EFACEC Energy, working on noise and vibration control in power transformers. From 2018-20 he was invited Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Since 2019 he is Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Group, at the School of Technology and Management (ESTG), Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC), Portugal. He received 4 prizes/distinctions (best national 2008 PhD thesis in Applied and Computational Mechanics; 1 best student article; 2 article highlights by IOP and Elsevier). He co-organized 1 ECCOMAS conference, organized 3 conference symposiums, has been scientific board member of 28 conferences and edited 4 sections of conference books. He has been Associate Editor of 8+ (edited 160+ papers) and Editorial Board member of 18+ international journals, reviewed 80+ manuscripts for 25+ international journals, given 6+ invited talks, and participated in 20+ post-graduate/graduate juries. He is affiliated to 14+ international professional organizations in engineering, acoustics, vibration and aerospace (e.g., AIAA, ASA, NAFEMS, IIAV, EURASEM, GEM1-EDA). As a leading and independent scientist, he coordinated 11 R&D projects (e.g., 3 for ESA, 1 for EDA, and several others nationally funded) with a total budget under his responsibility of 3+ MEUR, and participated in 10 other R&D projects with a total budget of 7+ MEUR. He worked professionally with more than 20 companies (e.g., CASSIDIAN, EADS, HPS, EMBRAER, EFACEC, ISQ, AIRWORKS). He has authored and co-authored 50+ technical reports. Worth to mention is the experience attained by Dr Vasques as project/technical manager of the qualification testing activities of project NeXA for HDRM (Non-Explosive Actuator for Hold-Down and Release Mechanisms) for ESA, the experience as project leader and project/technical manager of the project IMFC (Innovative Materials: Impact Detection by Functional Coatings) for European Defence Agency and the experience as work-package leader and technical manager of the material characterization and environmental (vibration, shock and thermal vacuum) testing activities for project RTM-EBOX (Thermally Conductive RTM CFRP) for ESA. Since 2014 Dr. Vasques has been working with nationally R&D funding agencies as an Invited Expert for the evaluation of 100+ R&D projects (50+ MEUR total budget) and since 2018 with the European Commission as Invited Expert in the evaluation of 10+ H2020 projects (28+ MEUR total budget). He has also a significant pedagogical experience since 2002, attested by lecturing activities of 70+ Mechanical Engineering courses in Portuguese high education institutions, having produced 110+ pedagogical resources and supervised 160+ engineering students in 80+ graduation/post-graduation works.