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Ricardo Bessa was born in 1983 in Viseu, and received his Licenciado (5-years) degree from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal (FEUP) in 2006 in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2008, he received the M.Sc. degree in Data Analysis and Decision Support Systems from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems (MIT Portugal) at FEUP in 2013. Currently, he is Coordinator of the Center for Power and Energy Systems at INESC TEC. He worked on several international projects such as the European Projects FP6 ANEMOS.plus, FP7 SuSTAINABLE, FP7 evolvDSO, Horizon 2020 UPGRID, Horizon 2020 InteGrid, H2020 Smart4RES, H2020 InterConnect, HORIZON ENERSHARE, and an international collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. At the national level, he participated in the development of renewable energy forecasting systems and consultant services about energy storage and AI. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and received the ESIG Excellence Award in 2022. He is co-authors of more than 60 journal papers and 120 conference papers, and IEEE Senior Member.

Luís Carlos Costa Coelho received his graduation in Physics Engineering in 2006 and MSc in Instrumentation and Microelectronics in 2007 both by University of Coimbra in Portugal. At the Physics Department of the same University he developed research in Atomic and Nuclear Instrumentation with focus on gaseous scintillation counters towards high energy radiation. In this context he was directly involved in international experiments as "Xenon Direct Dark Matter Search" at the National Laboratory of Gran Sasso in Italy, aiming search dark matter through the detection of weakly interacting massive particles.

In 2010 he started to work in optical fibre sensors at the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems of INESC Porto (now INESC TEC) in Portugal, mainly applied to hydrogen detection under the project MICROPHYTE-Metabolic engineering of chlamydomonas and environmental optimization for hydrogen production and release.

In 2016 received his Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal with the focus on thin films technology applied to optical fibre optic sensors in collaboration with the Centre for Applied Photonics of INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal.

His main research interests are related to the detection and monitoring of chemical entities and biological targets through the application of a wide variety of optical technologies, namely optical spectroscopy, using fluorescence or absorption, evanescent field-based devices, Long Period Fiber Gratings, the excitation of electromagnetic surface waves as plasmonics, and optical intergerometers. His main activities are focused on the development of sensors based on the manipulation of optical fibers with special physical polishing and chemical etching, on the deposition of thin films of high purity materials and with UV to NIR spectroscopy techniques. It has also built the control and interrogation systems in the development of dedicated prototypes.

He has been working in several international projects related to the detection of biological and chemical elements on water namely through the development of fiber optic probes to real-time monitor dissolved carbon dioxide, pollutants, and contaminants on water systems.

In the last few years, he has published more than 90 papers in international journals with referee and over 80 papers in national and international conferences with more than 3900 citations and an h index of 25 (Scopus 06.10.2023).

Presently he has a research contract with INESC TEC under the FCT program Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018 aiming the study and development of technological advanced optical sensors for marine applications.

He is supervisor of several Master and PhD Students working in the same subject.

He has been refereeing in a wide range of international journals as IEEE, OSA, SPIE, Elsevier, Pier, MDPI and Springer and is currently Editor of a special issue of the Sensors Journal of MDPI – Optical Fibre Sensors 2018-2019.

He was also the president of the University of Porto SPIE Student Chapter in 2014 and a member of the organization team of the 9th Advanced Study Course on Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (ASCOS 2015). 

I'm an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto and a researcher at the CRACS & INESC TEC research unit.

I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Porto in 2001 and my main research topics are the Design and Implementation of Logic Programming Systems, Tabling in Logic Programming and Parallel and Distributed Computing. Another areas of interest include Lock-Free Data Structures, Inductive Logic Programming, Probabilistic Logic Programming and Deductive Databases. I'm also one of the main developers of the Yap Prolog system with particular focus on the execution models that support tabling and parallel evaluation.

I've published more than 100 refereed papers in international journals and conferences, served more than 50 events as PC chair or PC member, served the ALP Board as executive committee member and the ALP Newsletter as area co-editor for the Implementations and Systems track, served the INForum Board as president, supervised several PhD/MSc students and had leading role in two national projects. Currently, I'm the coordinator of the CRACS center at INESC TEC.

Fábio Coelho (Male, PhD) is currently a senior researcher of HASLab, one of INESC TEC's research units. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, in the context of the MAP-i Doctoral Programme, from the universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto (Portugal). His research is focused on cloud HTAP databases, cloud computing, distributed systems, P2P/ledger based systems and benchmarking. He has several international publications in top-tier conferences, such as SRDS, DAIS and ICPE. He participated in several national and EU projects such as CoherentPaaS, LeanBigData, CloudDBAppliance and Integrid. Currently he works closely with the Power and Energy Centre of INESC TEC in the provisioning of ICT solutions for coordination and distributed communication.