António Mendes Lopes completed the graduation (1991) and obtained the MSc. degree (1995) in Electrical Engineering. He obtained the Ph.D (2000) degree and the Habilitation (2018) in Mechanical Engineering. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), and a senior researcher at the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transport and Aeronautics (LAETA), Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI), Intelligent Systems & Control Group (ISC). He participated in several research projects as member of the research team and as coordinator. He is (co)author of more than 150 papers in journals indexed in the JCR and of 4 books. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Fractional Calculus with Applications (DeGruyter). He has h-index = 28. He is Editor in chief of one journal indexed in Scopus and ESCI. He is the scientific coordinator of the ), Intelligent Systems & Control Group (ISC) at LAETA/INEGI.