Victor Alves received his PhD in Computer Science in 2002. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Minho. His main expertise lies in the Medical Imaging Informatics field, mainly in modelling of the imaging modalities and their interpretation by synergistic human–machine methods for clinical benefits and applications. He has always prioritised work in scientific R&D groups geared towards application in industrial domains and medical services. He has participated in several publicly funded projects. He supervised five PhD and 67 MSc students. He has more than 80 indexed (ISI, Scopus, DBLP), publications, with more than 2500 citations.