Giuseppe Catalanotti (MSc in Mechanical Engineering, UPalermo, 2007, IT) was Early Research Scientist within MOMENTUM project (Marie Curie Action) and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Porto, PT, in 2011. In the same year he left Alstom Transport (where he worked as expert in composite materials) and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto as Post-Doctoral Research Associate. In 2013 he contributed to the Composite Mechanics course of the MSc in Mechanical Engineering degree of the University of Porto. The main research interest of Giuseppe Catalanotti is the structural integrity of advanced polymer composites. In particular, Fracture Mechanics, Continuum Damage Mechanics, Computational Mechanics for advanced polymer composites, design and manufacture of composite structures, joining of composite structures, and new test methods for composites. He has been involved in several projects (SHEFAE, 2GenComp, iComp, MOMENTUM, HY-LYGHT,ULTIMAT) funded by the European Commission and by the aeronautic industry and he has been supervisor of four PhD students. He was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Girona in February 2012, and Visiting Scientist at NASA - Langley Research Center in September 2014. He joined INEGI in February 2015 as Research Coordinator. In June 2016 after leaving INEGI, he has joined, as a Lecturer, the Advanced Composite Research Group (ACRG) at the Queen’s University Belfast. He is a member of Euromech since 2014.