José is mapping the flows of resources in the UK supply chain and developing a solid-state welding process based on metal powder. This work is part of the UK FIRES programme. He completed his PhD in the Use Less Group in 2019, which was sponsored by Tata Steel UK. In his PhD, José developed a welding rig that reduced the time required to produce solid-state welds with metal powder from hours to minutes and also mapped the global material and energy flows of powder metallurgy. José has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Porto and joined Resource Efficiency Collective in 2019.