Dr. Espath obtained his Engineering Diploma in 2007 at PUCRS, Brazil. He completed a Master's and Doctorate at UFRGS, Brazil, in 2013. Dr. Espath was appointed postdoctoral fellow at KAUST, until 2019. Subsequently, he assumed the role of Research Scientist at RWTH Aachen, Germany, until 2021. In 2022, at RWTH Aachen, Dr. Espath defended his Habilitation thesis in Mathematics in the field of Theoretical Mechanics. His research interests are theoretical and computational mechanics, uncertainty quantification, stochastic optimization, and machine learning.