Luís Pessoa received the “Licenciatura” degree in 2006 and PhD degree in 2011, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Currently he is Senior Researcher and Manager of the Optical and Electronic Technologies (OET) group from the Centre of Telecommunications and Multimedia at INESC TEC. He is responsible for the overall coordination of the OET group, including the management of the team, the conception and management of R&D projects, coordination of research students and fostering the valorisation of research results through new contracts with the industry. He has been involved in the teaching of RF/microwave engineering and optical communications as an invited assistant professor at University of Porto. He has authored/co-authored 60+ publications in international conferences and journals with peer-review (including 12 journal papers and 6 book chapters) and 2 patents (1 granted in EPO). He has coordinated several national and international research projects and participated in several European Union funded research projects. His main research interests include coherent optical systems, radio-over-fibre, RF/microwave devices and antennas, underwater radio/optical communications and underwater wireless power transfer.