Pedro Camanho (FRAeS) received his PhD in Composite Materials from the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK, in 1999. In the same year, he joined the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management as Director of the Structural Integrity Unit and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto as Assistant Professor. Since 2014 he has been a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Porto.

Pedro Camanho is the President of the Associated Laboratory in Energy, Transportation, and Aeronautics and a member of the Editorial Board of multiple international journals. The main research interests of Pedro Camanho are the mechanics of deformation and fracture of advanced polymer composite materials and new concepts for lightweight composite materials and structures for aerospace applications such as hybrid, nano-structured, multi-functional, variable-stiffness, morphing, energy-storage, and ultra-thin composites.

Pedro Camanho was a Visiting Scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center and at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. He was a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cambridge University, and Brown University.

Pedro Camanho is the recipient of the 2006 NASA – H.J.E. Reid Award for Outstanding Scientific Paper. He also received the 2020 Excellence in Research Award from the University of Porto and the Career Award from the Portuguese Society of Fatigue and Structural Integrity.