Nuno Silvestre

Nuno Silvestre is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Research interests of Nuno Silvestre are grouped in two main areas: (i) numerical methods and analytical tools for the analysis and design of thin-walled and lightweight structures and (ii) mechanics and simulation of thin nanostructures and nanocomposites. Concerning thin-walled and lightweight structures, his work on the development of Generalized Beam Theory (GBT) received world recognition. Regarding nanomaterials, he achieved several recent contributions on the computational modelling and mechanical behaviour of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and CNT- and graphene reinforced matrix composites. His publications include about 270 papers in international indexed journals, some edited books and about 300 communications in international conferences, for which he received many citations. The Hirsch index (h-index) of Nuno Silvestre is 40 in ISI Web of Knowledge, 44 in Scopus and 57 in Google Scholar. Nuno Silvestre has been Editor-in-Chief for Thin-Walled Structures Journal (Elsevier, Q1, IF2022=6.4) since 2018. He was also the Engineering Editor for Data in Brief (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (SAGE Publishing) and member of several editorial boards of international journals. For his scientific achievements, he received many awards from national and international agencies, including the Vinnakota 2004 Award (Structural Stability Research Council, USA), IJSSD 2007 Award (International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics), Ferry Borges 2008 Award (National Association of Structural Engineering), Diploma of Distinction for Scientific Merit and Knowledge 2008 (Technical University of Lisbon), Award for Best Young Researcher in Applied, and Computational Mechanics 2009, (Portuguese Association of Applied, Theoretical and Computational Mechanics) and UTL 2011 Award (Santander Totta Bank and University of Lisbon). Since 2021, Nuno Silvestre has been the President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Portugal) and Vice-Coordinator of the Associated Laboratory of Energy, Transportation and Aerospace (Portugal).