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 with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Automation, Instrumentation and Control Group, since 1991. He is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation. He is an integrated researcher at the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transport and Aeronautics (LAETA), Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI). He is the Coordinator of the research group Intelligent Systems & Control (ISC) / LAETA-INEGI. His areas of research are Automation, Robotics, Complex Systems Modeling and Fractional Order Systems. He is the author of more than 250 papers in SCI journals (Jan. 2025) and of 4 books. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (L&H Sci. Pub.), International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer), International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (SAGE), Advances in Mechanical Engineering (SAGE), Entropy (MDPI), Open Engineering (DeGruyter), PlosOne (Plos), Discover Mechanical Engineering (Springer), Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines (Taylor & Francis), Foundations (MDPI), Journal on Teaching Egineering (U.Porto), and International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education (Sage). Editor-in-Chief of: Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management (L&H Sci. Pub.) (SCOPUS; JCR); Journal of Machine Design and Automation Intelligence (DeGruyter); Fractal and Fractional-Section Complexity (SCOPUS; JCR). He is coeditor of the Handbook of Fractional Calculus with Applications (DeGruyter). António Mendes Lopes was identified as one of the 2% most influential researchers in the world in "Industrial Engineering & Automation" (Stanford University study, since 2021).