Rate My Professor Silvestre Pinho

Pinho has received major awards such as the ESCM Albert Cardon Award for the best under-35 European researcher in composites (2010), EPSRC Fellowships (2014 and 2022), President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020), Rector’s Medal and Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching (2009), and Student Choice Award for Best Teaching for Undergraduates (2017). He serves on the editorial board of Composites Science and Technology, ESCM Executive Committee (since 2012), ICCM Executive Council (since 2017), RAeS Structures & Materials Specialist Group (since 2018), and EPSRC Engineering Forum (since 2015). In 2022, he presented to the UK Parliament on Net Zero aviation challenges. Key publications include “Biomimetic damage deflection and subsequent damage diffusion in carbon-boron fibre hybrid composites under longitudinal compression” (2024), “Structural fuses in composite structures: Engineered crack paths in carbon fibre-reinforced polymers” (2024), “Damage deflection and subsequent damage diffusion in carbon-boron fibre hybrid composites under longitudinal compression” (2024), “Ballistic performance of bio-inspired hybrid interleaved composite structures suitable for aerospace applications” (2023), and “Failure Mechanisms in Polymer Matrix Composites: Criteria, Testing and Industrial Applications” (2012). His models are commercialized in Abaqus and LS-DYNA, and his translaminar fracture toughness test is the most widely used globally. His team won the international benchmark in the 2nd World-Wide Failure Exercise.