Biographical Note

Miguel Coimbra has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (Queen Mary, University of London).
He is currently a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.
He is a member of the Executive Board of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto since 2019, current coordinator of the TEC4Health initiative of INESC TEC, and past Chair of the Portugal Chapter of the IEEE Engineering and Medicine Society (2017-2021).
He was the Director of the Master in Medical Informatics of the University of Porto between 2014-16, and was a co-founder in 2013 of IS4H – Interactive Systems for Healthcare, a spin-off company of the University of Porto.
In terms of scientific activity, he led or participated in multiple projects at the interface between computer science and Health, namely cardiology, gastroenterology and rheumatology, with current and past collaborations with Health institutions in Portugal, Brazil (Pernambuco, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, São Paulo), Germany and Sweden.
He has nearly 19 years of experience in biomedical signal processing and interactive systems for healthcare totaling more than 130 scientific publications, and has attracted and managed more than 3M€ in research funding, over a total of 15 research projects acting as the PI of the project.