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I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1983 and graduated from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL) in Physics Engineering in 2006. My undergraduate research consisted in developing and assembly of a specialized X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. This work lead to a Master in Physics Engineering (FCT-UNL, 2007) and a PhD in Atomic Physics (FCT-UNL, 2011) entitled: “Measurement of lead concentration in biological tissues by atomic spectroscopy techniques”.

In 2012, I moved to Albany (New York, USA) as a Postdoc in Analytical Chemistry, to work at the Trace Elements group, Wadsworth Center New York State Department of Health. In the same year I transitioned to a Research Scientist position and became supervisor of the X-ray lab. Here I participated in multiple projects concerning biomonitoring and environmental analysis of trace elements in several matrices (food, cosmetics, medicines, consumer products, human tissues and body fluids) using analytical techniques based on atomic spectrometry, including synchrotron radiation at the Cornell University. I also spent 2 years as a Research Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York – School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

In 2016 I decided to shift my research focus from atomic to nuclear radiation.  I moved to Porto, Portugal, and I am currently working at INESC-TEC developing fiber optic sensors to detect the presence of Radon, a radioactive element, in marine environments.

Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering and Management by FEUP.

Head of the Research Center for Industrial Engineering and Management from INESC TEC Laboratório Associado.

Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at FEUP.

Co Founder of LTPlabs - consultancy company that applies advanced analytical methods to help make better complex decisions.

Specialist in supply chain planning with an emphasis on food products. He was Supply Chain Analyst at Total Raffinage Marketing (França). Researcher/Consultant in several projects related to Operations Management and supported by different types of entities.

Author of several publications in international journals in the field of Operations Research (for example, International Journal of Production Economics, Industrial Engineering and Chemistry Research, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Interfaces) - Google citation profile.

Sara Neves works as a researcher at INESC TEC, focusing on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and is an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Porto. Her research primarily focuses on university entrepreneurship, knowledge valorisation, and digital transformation. She completed her PhD in Management at the University of Porto (2022), examining knowledge-based value creation in university entrepreneurship. She has extensive teaching experience across undergraduate and graduate programs, including Management of Technology, Marketing, Economics, and Statistics courses.

Filipe Neves dos Santos was born in São Paio de Oleiros, Portugal, in 1979. He olds a Licenciatura (5-year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 from Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, in 2007, and received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP), Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 2014. His professional passion is to develop autonomous robots and machinery to solve real problems, desires and needs of our society and to contribute for self-sustainability and fairness of the global economy. Actually, He is focused in developing and researching robotic solutions for agriculture and forestry sector, where is required a higher efficiency for our world self-sustainability. Considering his closer regional reality, he have setup the goal to promote agricultural robotic based projects and develop robots that can operate fully autonomously and safely in steep-slope scenarios, which is a common reality of North of Portugal and in other large number of world regions. As so, he is interested in explore and develop robots for specific agricultural and forestall tasks such as: monitoring (by ground), spraying, logistics, pruning, and selective harvesting. The successfully execution of these task is largely dependent on the robustness of specific robotic systems, such as: - Visual Perception; - Navigation (localization, mapping and path planning); and - Manipulation and end tools. For that reason Visual Perception and Navigation are his main research fields inside of robotics research. His formation in Electronics and Computer Engineer (Bachelor (old-one of 5 years) MSc (sensor fusion), PhD (semantic mapping) ), experience of 4 years as entrepreneur (technological startup), 8 year as robotics researcher, 5 years as manager (in supporting tasks in a family enterprise), and 6 year as electronics technician will help him to successfully contribute for the agricultural and forestall robotics future.

I am a senior researcher at INESC TEC, with extensive experience in team leadership and project management.

I have a BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineer (1990) and a Postgraduate in Management Information (2004), both from the Engineering Faculty of Porto University.

Since 1990 I have been involved in dozens of R&D projects supporting the adoption of advanced IT solutions and in the last decade I took part in several networks and R&D projects, mainly in the Mobility and Transport and Health sectors.

My main references in Health sector include projects with the new hospital in Matosinhos, São João hospital (several projects), Portuguese Institute of Oncology and National Coordination for HIV / AIDS infection. Between 2012 and 2015 I was INESC TEC representative at Health Cluster Portugal Association.

My main references in Mobility and Transport sector include the following projects: Mobility Competence Network (2006-2008), as coordinator; Sustained Electrical Mobility project (2009-2012); Intelligent Car Taxation Systems and Services project (2011-2014); Health Intelligent Pavement System (2014), a Horizon 2020 proposal. Since 2008 I am INESC TEC representative at the ITS Portugal Association.