· 2025 – PhD in Mechanical Engineering @ Instituto Superior Técnico. PhD Thesis: Peridynamics-based Computational Mechanics: Predicting Fracture and Crack Propagation for Multiphysics, Topology Optimization and Multibody Dynamics Applications. Pass with Distinction and Honour.

· 2019 – Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering @ Instituto Superior Técnico. MSc Dissertation: Modelling and Optimization of Sandwich Panels for Noise Reduction. (BSc 15/20, MSc 18/20).

· 2026-ongoing – Assistant Researcher @ Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil

· 2025-2026 – Invited Assistant Professor @ Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

· 2022-2025 – Invited Teaching Assistant @ Instituto Superior Técnico, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

· 2020-2025 – PhD Researcher @ IDMEC – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica. (with support from FCT PhD fellowship)

· 2019-2020 – MSc Fellowship @ IDMEC – Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica.

· 2018 – Summer Internship @ Coriant (Now Nokia)

Oceanity - Actionable DTO applications for wide policy, industry and civil society decision making

ClimateAdapt4EOSC - Advancing climate adaptation through open science and data integration in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

CNCA - National Center for Advanced Computing

SmartWagons - Developing productive capacity in Portugal of smart wagons for freight trains

· Paulo, E. P., Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2026). Peridynamic fatigue analysis of a freight wagon boogie frame using a submodeling approach. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech. 2026.112512

· Pagaimo, J., Vieira, F., Araújo, A. & Ambrósio, J. (2026). A floating frame of reference approach for efficient peridynamics-based flexible multibody dynamics. Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, 8, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42102-026-00145-x

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2025). Peridynamic topology optimization to improve fracture resistance of structures. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 433, 117455. https://doi.org/10.1016/‌j.cma.2024.117455

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2024). An improved peridynamics topology optimization formulation for compliance minimization. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 67(8), 150. https://doi.org/10.1007/‌s00158-024-03862-3

· Vieira, F., Pagaimo, J., Magalhães, H., Ambrósio, J., & Araújo, A. (2024). A peridynamics approach to flexible multibody dynamics for fracture analysis of mechanical systems. Multibody System Dynamics, 60(1), 65-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s1‌1044-023-09948-y

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2023). A peridynamic model for electromechanical fracture and crack propagation in piezoelectric solids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 412, 116081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.‌cma.2023.116081

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2022). Implicit non-ordinary state-based peridynamics model for linear piezoelectricity. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 29(28), 7329-7350. https://doi.org/10.‌1080/15376494.2021.1995798

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2022). On the role of bond-associated stabilization and discretization on deformation and fracture in non-ordinary state-based peridynamics. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 270, 108557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.en‌gfracmech.2022.108557

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2021). Implementation of a PID controller in ANSYS© for noise reduction applications. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 28(15), 1579-1587.  https://doi.org/10.108‌0/15376494.2019.1690721

· Vieira, F. S., & Araújo, A. L. (2020). Optimization and modelling methodologies for electro-viscoelastic sandwich design for noise reduction. Composite Structures, 235, 111778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j‌.compstruct.2019.111778

Other scientific and technical Activities

Editorial Board Member of Computers & Structures journal

Reviewer of several scientific journals: Computers & Structures, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Composite Structures, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Thin-Walled Structures, Engineering Structures, Multibody System Dynamics, among other

Organization of international conferences: Chairman of Euromech Colloquium 663, member of editorial board and organization in several conferences.

Curriculum Vitae