Paulo M. Mendes (PhD 2004) is Senior Scientist for Wireless Communications at Airbus Central Research and Technology (Munich, Germany). He is also an Invited Associate Professor at University Lusófona (Lisbon, Portugal), and an Associate Researcher of ISTAR-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal). His current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; wireless communications; self-organized networks and network orchestration; information-centric networking. Paulo holds over 80 peer-reviewed publications, 10 book chapters and 15 patents. He is an ACM member and an IEEE senior member. Paulo holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by the University of Coimbra (1993), and M.Sc. (1998) in Electronic and Computer Engineering by the Technical University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. (2004) in Informatics by the University of Coimbra. During his PhD studies, he was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at the Internet Real Time Laboratory at Columbia University in New York. In 2019 Paulo got his habilitation from University of Coimbra.