Fernando Pinho

About

F.T. Pinho is 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 FEUP, 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 (INEGI), a research institute interfacing the University of Porto and industry.

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), Washington University of St. Louis (US), Strathclyde University (Glasgow) and 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 has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics since 2007 and was one of its two Co-Editors-in-Chief from 2013 until the end of 2018.

Since 2023 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT) and from 2019 he is a Council Member of Euromech, the European Mechanics Society and of its European Fluid Mechanics Conference Committee. His research interests are 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 microfluidics of viscoelastic fluids.