João Tavares is co-editor of more than 35 books, co-author of more than 30 book chapters, 550 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 2 national patents. He has been a committee member of several international and national journals and conferences, is co-founder and co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, and co-founder and co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS and BioDental. Additionally, he has been (co-)supervisor of several MSc and PhD thesis and supervisor of several post-doc projects, and has participated in many scientific projects both as researcher and as scientific coordinator.

His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, scientific visualization, biomechanics and new product development.  
(More information can be found at: www.fe.up.pt/~tavares)

1. • structural identification, with applications in civil and mechanical engineering,

2. • non probabilistic techniques for the direct and inverse analysis of structural systems,

3. • studies and developments of interval analysis based optimization techniques, 

4. • model reliability, updating and admissibility and reliability in engineering computing,

5. • biomechanics of the human heart (correlation between principal strains and fibers directions)

6. • nonlinear mechanics

7. • post-buckling analysis of thin walled beams (TWB)

8. • Multivariate Statistics and Procrustes Analysis

9. • “Shape and Form” Studies