Professor Jorge Ambrósio: A tribute on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Abstract

It is a great pleasure and an immense honor to write this humble and personal tribute to Professor Jorge Ambrósio on the occasion of his 65th birthday. This report is very modest, since the authors cannot summarize all the work and impact of one of the most influential researchers in the field of multibody dynamics. Further, this narrative is quite personal in the measure that it reflects the authors’ knowledge acquired over the last decades of close interaction and cooperation with Jorge Ambrósio. Thus, this work presents his achievements at different levels, namely in what concerns the scientific research, the industrial influence, and the educational impact. Professor Jorge Ambrósio has been an extremely active and highly productive researcher in multibody dynamics, with more than 230 publications, which generated more than 6000 citations, and 45 of his publications receiving more than 45 citations, leading to an extraordinary h-index of 45 according to the Scopus database. This figure is absolutely extraordinary, since multibody dynamics is a relatively new discipline, where much lower author and paper citation rates are the norm compared to other scientific areas. In fact, Professor Jorge Ambrósio’s publications represent a remarkable and highly influential body of knowledge in the multibody dynamics community. In short, Professor Jorge Ambrósio is without any doubt one of the most prominent researcher and academic of his generation.