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António Paulo Gomes Mendes Moreira has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering - FEUP (1986), Electronic Instrumentation option, a Master's degree in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering - Systems Specialisation at FEUP (1991), a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1998) and an Aggregation - FEUP (2017). He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He is also a Researcher and Coordinator of CRIIS - Centre for Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems and Head of the iiLab – Industry and Innovation Laboratory at INESC TEC. He carries out research essentially in Robotics, Automation and Control, with an emphasis on its application in industrial projects and technology transfer. He has participated or is still participating in 25 scientific projects, being the coordinator or researcher responsible for 7 of them. The work carried out on these projects has generated 40 projects with companies or development and technology transfer contracts, and he is the lead researcher on 18 of these projects. He also participated in the development of 18 prototypes and 2 patents, of which he is co-owner. He has contributed to the creation of two spin-off companies. More details at: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/EB15-85A7-4A0D

João Paulo Cunha is Full Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical & Computers Engineering (ECE) at the Department of ECE of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal; Senior Researcher at the INESC-TEC: Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering where he created and coordinates the BRAIN – Biomedical Research And INnovation - research group and co-founded the Center for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER) that aggregates ~40 researchers. Prof. Cunha is also a mentor/co-founder and contributor to several MedTech/DeepTech startups (eight until now) by advising and licensing intellectual property of innovative biomedical technology developed for several years in his lab, such as Biodevices (http://www.biodevices.pt), iLof-Intelligent Lab-on-Fiber (https://ilof.tech) and inSignals Neurotech (http://www.insignals-neurotech.com). He is visiting professor at the Neurology Dep., Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich, Germany since 2002 and at the Carnegie Mellon University – Silicon Valley Campus, USA, between 2016 and 2021. He serves as Scientific Director of the Carnegie-Mellon | Portugal program since 2014.

He earned a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering (1989), a Ph.D. (1996) and an Habilitation (“Agregação”) degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering all at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Dr. Cunha is Senior Member of the IEEE – Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers - (2004), member of the Editorial Board of NATURE/Scientific Reports (5th most cited journal in 2022) and Associate Editor of FRONTIERS/Signal Processing journal. He is also habitual reviewer of several IEEE journals and other relevant scientific journals such as PLoS ONE or Movement Disorders. He is an internationally renowned expert in advanced biosignal processing, human motion analysis and neuroimaging. He has supervised and co-supervised more than 15 PhD & Post-doc students in his areas of R&D. He received several awards, being the most relevant the European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA) “Best Contribution for Clinical Epileptology” Award in 2002. Prof. Cunha is co-author of +200 scientific publications and 43 patents from 10 patent families, holding an h-index of 34 (Google Scholar), with +4,500 citations.

Researcher, in technology adoption and innovation process, at the Centre for Enterprise of Systems Engineering from INESC TEC. She is invited Professor at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto . Before joining INESC TEC she worked as a senior consultant in health strategy management and planning, developing several consulting projects for the healthcare sector's regional and national government bodies and she was invited assistant and invited Professor at the University of Minho (2003-2017). Ana obtained a PhD in Engineering and Industrial Management (Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, 2016), an M.S. in Quantitative Methods Applied to Management (Porto Business School of University of Porto, 2003) and a B.S. in Engineering and Industrial Management (University of Aveiro, 1998). Member of the executive committee of the iilab (Industry and Innovation lab of INESC TEC) responsible for the training area. Supervisor of several Master's theses. Researcher/consultant in several R&D projects, funded by different entities, in technology adoption, innovation process, design and development of advanced training programmes and healthcare planning topics. Author of several publications in international journals in management, technology management and healthcare planning/management. Her main research interests are technology management and technology implementation.

I was born in Porto (Portugal) in 8 April 1955, graduated in Electrical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto - FEUP (1977), and completed my PhD in Power Systems in 1988, also from the University of Porto. In November 1996 I got the aggregation title from the University of Porto. In 1978, I joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of FEUP, where I am Full Professor since 2000. In the period 1990-98, I was also the Director of the Library of FEUP. In the period 2001-08, I was the director of the MSc program on Information Management, and I was the director of the PhD program in Sustainable Energy Systems, integrated in the MIT-Portugal program. I lectured several courses in graduation, MSc and PhD courses in Electrical Engineering and Power Systems and supervised the research activities of many graduation, MSc and PhD students. I also collaborated with the Management School of the University of Porto, lecturing MSc courses on Decision-Aid. I was a member of the Senate of the University of Porto since October 2009 until 2017. I retired from FEUP in May 2022.

In 1985 I joined INESC (now INESC TEC). Since 1996 I coordinate the Centre for Power and Energy Systems of INESC TEC, leading 100+ researchers (including 30+ PhD). I was the President of the Scientific Council of INESC TEC since 2001 until 2022. I have been involved in several national, EU and international RTD projects and in development contracts and consultancy for utilities, TSO, DSO, industrial partners, government agencies and for the Regulatory Authority for the Energy Services of Portugal. In particular, I was the responsible for the INESC TEC research team in the EU financed projects “CARE” (Advanced Control Advice for power systems with large-scale integration of Renewable Energy sources), “MORE CARE” (More Advanced Control Advice for Secure Operation of Isolated Power Systems with Increased Renewable Energy Penetration and Storage) and “ANEMOS.PLUS” (Advanced Tools for the Management of Electricity Grids with Large-Scale Wind Generation). I was the Principal Investigator of project “SusCity” (Urban data driven models for creative and resourceful urban transitions), financed by FCT (MPP-Testbed).

I also coordinated the research teams of the contracts “CCR” (Load Profiling and Distribution Network Characterization), with EDP Distribution (the Portuguese DSO), Study on the Impact of Large Renewable Deployment on European Electricity Higher Voltage Systems (JRC-Institute for Energy), “RESERVES” (Mid and Long Term Evaluation of the adequacy of Operational Reserve levels in the Iberian Electric Power Systems), with the TSO of Portugal (REN) and Spain (REE), “RECEP” (Development and testing of methodologies to determine the hosting capacity in the nodes of the National Grid of Portugal) (REN), “ReservaProb” (Software Module for helping setting the operational reserve of the National Electric System) (REN) and “MORA” (Long-term adequacy evaluation of reserves in a multi-area context) (REN). I was also involved in consultancy actions regarding the design of public tenders, namely the call for tenders for new wind power generation in Portugal mainland in 2006)

My research interests include classic and fuzzy modeling of power systems, reliability and optimization and decision-aid, with application to renewables’ integration, electric vehicles’ deployment and smart grids. I was involved in the organization of the international conferences PMAPS’2000, IEEE PPT’2001, ISAP’2015 and EEM’2016. I am a member of the Editorial board of EPSR (Top Reviewer in 2010) and of Int J of Multicriteria Decision Making. I am a senior member of IEEE.

I have received a Master degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering from University of Porto, in 2011. Since then I have been participating in several european and national R&D projects focused on auto-configuration of wireless networks and Smart Grids. In 2016 I was integrated in the coordination council of the Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia.

Is a member of the Communication Service of INESC TEC since 2015. Since June 2021 is the Head of the Communication Service. Until then, she was in charge of the press relations of the institution (until the end of 2019), led work packages of Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation of results in some European projects in the energy area – actions that she continues to develop nowadays – namely in projects such as InterConnect, UPGRID, FEEdBACk, GReSBAS, etc. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication science: Journalism, Public Relations and Multimedia (with specialization in Press Relations) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, a master’s degree in Marketing and Strategic Management from the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho and is a PhD candidate in Management (with specialization in Marketing and Strategy) of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. Before joining INESC TEC, she worked at a communication agency, in research projects at the university and in a pharmaceutical distribution company, as a communication manager.

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.