Dr. Joaquim Neto Dias is currently a Captain in the Brazilian Air Force, working as flight test engineer at the Flight Test and Research Institute (IPEV). He received a BS (2008) and MS (2012) in Aeronautical Engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), in Brazil, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2019) from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was qualified as experimental fixed-wing flight test engineer in 2010 and served for six years as flight test instructor at the Brazilian Air Force Test Pilot School (EFEV), logging 350+ hours in 15+ types of aircraft. Dr. Dias has published a dozen papers on aircraft system identification, flight dynamics and control. He is a member of AIAA and SFTE (Society of Flight Test Engineers).