Giuseppe Catalanotti was an Early Research Scientist within the MOMENTUM project and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto in 2011. In the same year, he left Alstom Transport and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Porto as Post-Doctoral Research Associate. In 2016 he joined, as Lecturer, the Advanced Composite Research Group (ACRG) at the Queen's University Belfast. In April 2021 he joined the University of Evora as an Associate Professor with the task of opening a new course on aerospace engineering. He has been involved in several projects funded by the European Commission and by the aeronautic industry, is the author or co-author of dozens of peer-reviewed articles publishing in high impact journals, and he has been supervisor of dozen of PhD students.