Filipe Teixeira Dias

Professor Filipe Teixeira-Dias CEng FIMechE is a Mechanical Engineer, academic and author of over 250 technical and scientific publications, including more than 70 in international peer-reviewed journals.
He started his academic career in 1992 at his Alma Mater, the University of Coimbra, joining the University of Aveiro in 1997 where he stayed for almost 17 years. In 2013 he moved to The University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, where he holds the Personal Chair of Impulsive Dynamics. His research interests focus on understanding the behaviour of materials and structures under impulsive and dynamic loads and improving their response through better energy absorption mechanisms at different scales. His research primarily combines the use of numerical, experimental and analytical/theoretical approaches and methods, with wide applications in impulsive/structural dynamics; materials for energy absorption; protection and armour systems; sports impact and human bio-dynamics; crashworthiness; terminal ballistics, blast and shock wave dynamics, and hypervelocity impact.
He is a co-founder of the Light-Weight Armour for Defence & Security group (LWAG) and was president of the LWAG from 2008 to 2012. At The University of Edinburgh, he has held a number of management and senior management roles, including Director of Mechanical Engineering from 2021 to 2024. He is a member of the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment (IIE), of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC), a Senior Member of Ordem dos Engenheiros, a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council UK and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).