João Paulo Davim Tavares da Silva

J. Paulo Davim is Professor Catedrático (Full Professor) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India and Spain. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) and Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years), from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra and the DSc (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University. He is Fellow (FIET) of IET-London, Fellow (FIMF) of IMF-Birmingham and Eur Ing by Engineers Europe FEANI-Brussels. He is also Engenheiro Conselheiro and Specialist Engineer by the Portuguese Order of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining, Tribology & Surface Engineering. He has also interest in Management, Sustainability, Industry 5.0, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, PhD and master's students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of PhD thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 200. He has also published more than 1000 documents - articles, reviews, editorials, books, book chapters, conference articles - (WoS/h-index 77+/20500+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 88+/27000+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 111+/44000+ citations). He was listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University study 2025 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 3238 World Ranking career). Also, he was listed in Research.com ranking 2025 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 82 World Ranking in field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Portugal Leader Award. https://research.com/u/j-paulo-davim Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS 2025. https://scholargps.com/scholars/81217911671847/j-paulo-davim (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 98 World Ranking in field of Mechanical Engineering).