António M. Pascoal received a Licenciatura degree in Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 1975, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and aPh.D. degree in Control Science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1987. From 1987 to 1988, he was a Research Scientist with Integrated Systems Incorporated, Santa Clara, California, where he conducted research and development work in the areas of system modeling and identification and robust and adaptive control. From 1988 to 1993, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), where he is currently an Associate Professor of Control and Robotics. He has taught courses in the areas of Linear Control Systems, Digital Control, Robotics, Nonlinear Systems, Dynamical System Theory, Multivariable Robust Control, and Optimal Control Theory. In 1993 he joined the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) of IST where he became the Coordinator of the Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Laboratory. He has supervised or co-supervised 11 postdoctoral and 15 PhD students. He has published a total of 113 books, book chapters, and peer reviewed journal papers, and more than 260 conference papers (12423 Citations, h-index 59, i10-index 241/ Google Scholar). He received an IEEE OES AUV Distinguished Lifetime Technical Achievement Award in 2020.