Full Professor and head of Robotics & Manufacturing at the NOVA University of Lisbon. He is Director of the Center of Technology and Systems (CTS) of UNINOVA and leader of the Collaborative Networks & Distributed Industrial Systems research group at CTS. He has participated in many international and national projects, both as a researcher and as a project coordinator. He is a founding member of the PRO-VE and DoCEIS conferences series and the president of SOCOLNET – Society of Collaborative Networks. He is member of IFIP WG 5.5 (founder), WG5.7, and Domain Committee on IoT. His main areas of interest include collaborative enterprise networks, intelligent manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, digital transformation, and elderly care. He has more than 500 publications in refereed Journals and conferences proceedings. He has acted as an evaluator of proposals for several international funding organizations. He got the Doctor Honoris Causa by University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania (2009).
