João Teixeira Oliveira de Menezes holds a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from UFRJ. During the Master, he worked on the Fracture Mechanics Laboratory (LaMeF) of COPPE/UFRJ and obtained his master's degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2018. In October of the same year, he began his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Materials at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. After four years of studies, he obtained the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.). After his doctorate, he was a Researcher hired by the same institution until June 2023, and then got a position of Researcher on a fixed-term contract (RTD-a) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the same university, a position he holds to this day. The area of knowledge in which he focuses is the Fracture Mechanics, specifically in the development of experimental methodologies for the determination of fracture toughness and fatigue properties of metallic materials.