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PhD in Automation, Control and Robotics in 2006 at Cranfield University in England. His first degree was in Informatics and Applied Mathematics, completed in 2002 at Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique University in Porto – Portugal. Two postdoctoral research projects followed in the field of his PhD. They focused on automation of rapid prototyping with Metal Arc Welding with titanium alloys and a project related to the torus of the ITER nuclear fusion reactor (2006-2008). Working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maia (Maia – Portugal). Also working as Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Minho (Guimarães – Portugal). At the University of Minho the main research is being developed. As a lecturer, 53 different curricular units were taught in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cycles of Higher Education. These were in the areas of Electrotechnics/Electronics, Computer Science (Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture, Programming, Multimedia, among others), Communications/Telecommunications, Image/Computer Vision and Processing, Signal Processing, IoT/Sensor Networks, Automation, Control, and Robotics. Supervisor of 5 PhD students, 64 Master’s students, 17 Academic Internships and 22 Academic Curricular Projects. Was as a jury member in 3 PhD, 66 Master degrees and 25 Academic Internship defenses. Principal Investigator of a project funded by FCT-Portugal worth €118k. Participated as a Researcher/Consultant in other funded projects totaling €9M. Published 75 articles, with 42 indexed in SCOPUS (h-index of 9), h-index of 7 in ISI Web of Science and h-index of 12 in Google. Currently researching Smart Systems such as Artificial Intelligence in Robotics and Computer Vision, IoT, and Mechatronics. The latter is focused on developing complex robots from scratch.