PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, In 2008 he was the winner of the Portuguese National Award “Futuras Promessas” ISA/Millennium BCP, granted to the best PhD thesis on Physics, Electronics, Informatics or Biomedical Engineering fields. In 2007 he was awarded with a grant from the Luso-American Development Foundation which led him to conduct research at the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab, directed by the worldwide recognized researcher Dr. Anil Jain, at Michigan State University (USA). He has been involved in 3 FP7 projects: ICT4DEPRESSION , HARKEN and ABC. His research focus is medical intrumentation, biosignal processing and machine learning techniques applied to the creation of clinical applications.