**Filipe Daniel Fernandes**

Filipe Daniel Fernandes is presently an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at the Polytechnic of Porto, and a collaborator at the University of Coimbra and Colaborator at IPN where he is collaborating in the planning, preparation and submission of research project proposals. He is dedicated to the surface engineering field, and to efforts to extend the lifetime of components working under high temperature solicitations. He has won different prizes and awards for which he was recently highlighted at the "2023 Young scientist awards" for his outstanding contribution towards research, as recognized at the Indo-European conference of Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing, IECAdvaMAP-2023. He has published 73 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 18) and participated in more than 56 conferences, 5 as a keynote and 3 as an invited speaker. He has been the PI of several projects, having attracted EUR 2 million in industrial research projects and EUR 500,000 in fundamental research projects. He is a member of the advisor committee/scientific commission of conferences, a member of a doctoral program, a member of the evaluation comities of research projects, a member of scientific societies, a member of the Editorial Board of scientific journals and an organizer of seminars for high school students and graduate researchers. He supervises postdocs, PhDs and Master's students, and has participated on the juries of PhD and Master's theses and research contracts.
