José Manuel Mendonça

José Manuel Mendonça is a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, former Chairman of the Board of Directors and Emeritus Professor at the University of Porto.

He is National Director of UT Austin Portugal Program and Chairman of the Independent Evaluation Panel of Eureka Eurostars Program. He has been Chairman of the Nacional Council for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Graduated in Electrical Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Porto, he obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Presently he is a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas, Austin, and member of the High-Level Group of the European Technological Platform Manufuture.

Over the last decade, he had been Chairman of the Board of ForestWISE CoLAB, Vice-President of the Innovation Agency, CEO of the Ilídio Pinho Foundation and Chairman of the Board of three technology-based companies: Tech M5 SGPS, Fibersensing SA e Kinematix SA.