Nuno Garcia, Ph.D.

Nuno M. Garcia holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã, Portugal) (2008) and is a 5-year BSc in Mathematics / Informatics (Hons.) also from UBI (1999-2004). He was an entrepreneur (1988-2004), member of the Research Team at Siemens SA (2004-2007) and Nokia Siemens SA (2007-2008), and Head of Research at PLUX SA (2008-2010).

Currently he is Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL) (2023-), and member of the research team of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB) (2023-). He is Vice-President of the Physics Department (2024-), and Coordinator for the PhD course on Biomedical and Biophysical Engineering at FCUL (2024-).

He is also President of the Administration Board of FCiências.ID (2025-2028) (www.fciencias-id.pt), an association that includes FCUL and six private companies that manages 12 research groups and laboratories at FCUL and over 300 international R&D projects.

He was the founder and is a senior researcher of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab, 2010), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI.

He was also co-founder and Chair of the Executive Council of the BSAFE LAB – Law enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory, a multidisciplinar research laboratory in UBI (2015-2023).

Since 2010, he has participated as Principal Investigator, Coordinator, Local Coordinator or Researcher of several European or national Research projects. The approval ratios for the different ERASMUS+ projects are around 10% and for the COST Action are around 5%, according to the last reported data. The funds he directly managed for these projects surpass the 6 M€. For the two research groups, a total of 22 projects have been or are managed, of them, 8 as Principal Investigator, and 14 as Coordinator of the research team.

He was the founder and coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI (2010-2020) and was Chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE – Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (Brussels, Belgium, 2013-2017).

He was identified as one of the world top 2% most influential researchers for the years 2019 and 2020 (Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918).

He is member of ISOC and of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, a group within GNSO in ICANN.

His main interests include predictive algorithms for healthcare and well-being, distributed and cooperative algorithms, and the battle for a Free and Open Internet

Nuno was part of the research team focusing on predictive analytics, data fusion, artificial intelligence, and software engineering, in the framework of the strategic joint-venture between IPS Innovative Prison System and the BSAFE LAB of UBI University for digital transformation in corrections, in the framework of the HORUS iOMS 360 consortia.