Associate Professor, ISEP – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Porto, Portugal.

Francisco Silva is Associate Professor at ISEP - School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal), where he has served since 1995. He is Head of the Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering since 2014. He has five books published and more than 200 papers published in Scopus and SCIE indexed international peer-reviewed journals.