Nuno Silvestre is Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Research interests of Nuno Silvestre are grouped in two main areas: (i) numerical methods and analytical tools for the analysis and design of thin-walled structures and (ii) nanomechanics and simulation of thin nanostructures. Concerning thin-walled structures, his work on the development of Generalized Beam Theory (GBT) received world recognition. Regarding nanomaterials, he achieved several recent contributions on the computational modelling and mechanical behaviour of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and CNT-reinforced matrix composites. His publications include about 140 papers in international indexed journals, some edited books and about 250 communications in international conferences, for which he received many citations. The Hirsch index (h-index) of Nuno Silvestre is 37 in ISI Web of Knowledge, 42 in Scopus and 52 in Google Scholar (dated from March 2022). Besides being Editor-in-Chief for Thin-Walled Structures Journal (IF2020=4.42), he was also the Engineering Editor for Data in Brief (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology and member of several editorial boards of international journals. For his scientific achievements, he received many awards from national and international agencies, including the Vinnakota 2004 Award (Structural Stability Research Council, USA), IJSSD 2007 Award (International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics), Ferry Borges 2008 Award (Portuguese Association of Structural Engineering), Diploma of Distinction for Scientific Merit and Knowledge 2008 (Technical University of Lisbon), Award for Best Young Researcher in Applied, and Computational Mechanics 2009, (Portuguese Association of Applied, Theoretical and Computational Mechanics) and UTL 2011 Award (Santander Totta Bank and University of Lisbon). Currently, he is the President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC), Vice-Coordinator of the Associate Laboratory for Energy, Transportation and Aerospace (LAETA) and member of IST scientific council.