He has a graduation (2003) in Systems and Computation Engineering and a PhD (2008) in Electronics Engineering and Informatics both from the University of the Algarve, Portugal. His expertise is on bio-signal processing, classification and modelling. More precisely on EEG-based epileptic seizure prediction and anaesthesia monitoring; and ultrasound-based non-invasive temperature estimation and image improvement. His publication record includes over 100 papers in refereed national and international journals and conferences. He participated in several national (HeartSafe(PTDC EEI-PRO 2857 2012), and iCIS (CENTRO-07-0224-FEDER-002003)) and international projects (EPILEPSIAE (FP7-ICT-2007- 211713), Welcome(FP7-611223), and Link (H2020-692023)).