Bruno Soares Gonçalves is Full Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico, President of Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (since 2012) and responsible for the Engineering and Systems Integration Group of IPFN. He has led several research projects in the areas of development of diagnostics for nuclear fusion devices and of control systems and data acquisition. He is co-inventor of eight granted patents and co-author of one chapter in a book, 140+ papers published in international journals and 70+ papers published in international conference proceedings. He is a member of several international scientific committees of conferences in the field, the national delegate on the Governing Board of Eurofusion and the national delegate on the Governing Board of Fusion for Energy. He is also co-founder of GTechPlasma Lda, a startup company focused on the production of high-quality graphene and graphene derivatives.