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Pedro Camanho (MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, PhD in Composite Materials, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London) is Full Professor at the University of Porto. He was Visiting Scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center and at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Royal Society Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Brown University, and Cambridge University.
The main research interests of Pedro Camanho are the mechanics of deformation and fracture of advanced polymer composite materials at different length and timescales, and new concepts for lightweight composite materials and structures for aerospace applications such as hybrid, nano-structured, multi-functional, variable-stiffness, energy-storage and ultra-thin composites.
Pedro Camanho coordinated several research projects funded by the European Space Agency, Airbus, Embraer, Daimler AG, European Union, FCT, and US Air Force Research Laboratory. In 2024 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Pedro Camanho has received several awards, including: Young Researcher in Applied and Computational Mechanics Award from the Portuguese Association of Theoretical, Applied and Computational Mechanics (2005), NASA – H.J.E. Reid Award for Outstanding Scientific Paper, U.S.A (2006), Excellence in Research Award of the University of Porto (2020), Career Award from the Portuguese Society of Fatigue and Structural Integrity (2020), elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK (2020), elected to the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Portugal (2023), Honorary Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (2024), Académie Medal, Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace, France (2024), elected to the Academy of Engineering, Portugal (2024).
His work has been successfully transferred to the industry and services: finite elements implemented by ABAQUS, materials models implemented by LS-DYNA and Digimat, and experimental test methods that are used by both the automotive and aerospace industries.
