Lucas FM da Silva is Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). He obtained his PhD in structural adhesive bonding of composites from the University of Bristol (United Kingdom) in 2004 and Aggregation from FEUP in 2011. He leads the Advanced Joining Processes Unit (AJPU) of the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering (INEGI) composed of approximately 40 members post-doc, doctoral students and master students. The work includes the development welded joints, joints by plastic deformation and adhesively bonded joints. The research methodology is based on the mechanical characterization of materials and joints in terms of strength and fracture, modeling with analytical models and finite elements supported by careful experimental tests.Robert D. Adams is Emeritus Professor of Applied Mechanics at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes. In 2011, he was awarded the R.L. Patrick Fellowship of the US Adhesion Society. He has been Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives since 1999.Chiaki Sato is Professor of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. of mechanical engineering were obtained from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Main topics: Mechanics of adhesively bonded joints.Klaus Dilger is university professor at the Institute of Joining and Welding, Technische Universität Braunschweig since 2002 and board director of the Open Hybrid LabFactory e. V. (OHLF) since 2013. He has studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Munich. Afterwards he had been research assistant at Technische Universität Munich and received his doctor degree (Dr.-Ing.) in 1991. He was assistant professor at the chair of joining technology at TU Munich and than professor for adhesive bonding technology at the University of Aachen (RWTH). He received an honorary professorship (Prof. h.c.) from the Kutaisi State University, Georgia in 2004. Prof. Dilgers main research activities are in the field of lightweight design and manufacturing of modern mobility providers. He has published more than 950 papers and book publications as author, co-other and editor.
