J. Xavier is currently an Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (DEMI) at NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. J. Xavier is an integrated researcher member at the Research and Development Unit for Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (UNIDEMI). UNIDEMI received by the FCT-MCTES the evaluation of ``EXCELLENT''. Since obtaining the PhD degree, J. Xavier has participated, as a researcher, in 10 projects with industry and 11 projects funded by national government agencies (e.g. FCT, Portugal2020, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, ES, EPSRC Fellowship, UK). He is currently a principal investigator (PI) in a FCT project with reference: PTDC/EMD-EMD/1230/2021 and Co-PI in the project 2022.06903.PTDC. J. Xavier has published 95 papers in international peer-reviewed journals with an accumulated h-factor of 31. Among them, 52 articles were published in Q1 journals. J. Xavier has published 5 book chapters and contributed with 1 didactic publication, among other (non-published) academic resources for students. J. Xavier completed the supervision/co-supervision of 4 PhD (3nd cycle), 42 MSc students (2nd cycle) and 3 MSc ERASMUS students. Moreover, he is carrying out the supervision/co-supervision of 7 PhD and 5 MSc students. He has been invited as a member of juries of PhD and MSc thesis in Portugal, Europe (France, Spain, Italy and Brazil). He has also been invited to international visits in the framework of research and projects. He is also a regular reviewer of international and national peer-reviewed journals. J. Xavier has been collaborating as membership of scientific and organising committees and courses. He has been invited as chairman in sections at different international and national conferences and in scientific and organisation committees. Moreover, he has been participating in COST Actions dealing with wood, timber, wood-based products and X-ray computed tomography. Furthermore, efforts in transferring technology from the research promoted or in which he has been involved were actively engaged. Since his graduation in Mechanical Engineering, he has already started teaching as an invited lecturer, namely by accumulating activities during MSc, PhD, post-doc (Ciência2018 FCT program) and as an Invited Assistant Professor (Engineering Department of the School of Science and Technology in UTAD). In the meanwhile, as general duties and responsibilities in academia, he has been gaining experience in academic service and pointed as vice-director of the MSc course on Mechanical Engineering, ECT, UTAD (the academic year 2018/19) and, more recently, as coordinator of the Master in Digital Advanced Manufacturing Engineering at FCT NOVA.