• Full Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

  • Coordinator of CeDRI - Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics

  • Director of the PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança

  • Past research member and member of the Directive Board of LIACC (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory)

  • Senior member of IEEE and member-at-large of the IES Administrative Committee (AdCom)

  • Chair of theWorking Group of the established IEEE 2660.1-2020 standard 

  • Cluster Delegate of the TC Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Cluster (2024-2025)

  • Past Chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents (2010-2015, 2020-2023)

  • Member of the IFAC TC 5.1 - Manufacturing Plant Control