Biography

Fernando Tavares de Pinho is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. He graduated (5 year Licenciatura) in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 at the same University, where he also obtained an Msc in Thermal Engineering in 1987. He got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London in 1990 and returned to the University of Porto where he has been except for a brief spell at University of Minho, Portugal in 2004-2008. In 1991/92 and 1993/94 he also acted as head of the Thermal Engineering Unit of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, a research institute interfacing the University of Porto and industry in Portugal. In 2004 he was awarded a High Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering by University of Coimbra, Portugal and he has spent sabbatical leaves at the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (Tsukuba, Japan), the University of Liverpool (UK), University of California, Davis (US) and Washington University of St. Louis (US). He is currently also a visiting scientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In 1996 he was one of the five founders of CEFT, the Transport Phenomena Research Center at FEUP, where he also steered the creation of an MSc on Advanced Fluid Mechanics in 1999. He was been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics from 2007 until 2012 and since 2013 he is co-Editor-in-Chief of this journal. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Chemical Engineering, Periodica Polytechnica: Mechanical Engineering and Open Mechanical Engineering Journal. Additionally, he is a member of the Engineering Peer Review College of the EPSRC (UK) since 2006.
His research interests on complex fluids initially focused on experiments at high Reynolds number flows, but over the years his interests moved also into computational rheology, turbulence modeling and more recently microfluidics of viscoelastic fluids.