• Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL)
  • Researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics – Lisbon (ISR/IST) – Coordinator of the Intelligent Robots and Systems group (IRSg)
  • Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY – USA (1994).