Henrique Vicente was born in S. Martinho do Porto, Portugal, and attended the University of Lisbon, where he studied Chemistry and obtained his degrees in 1988. He joined the University of Évora in 1989 and received his PhD in Chemistry in 2005. He is now an auxiliary professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Évora. He is a researcher at REQUIMTE/LAQV (University of Évora) and Algoritmi Research Center (University of Minho). He is a member of Algoritmi’s Computer Science and Technology Research line and of Algoritmi’s Knowledge Engineering group. His current interests include water quality control, lake and reservoir management, data mining, knowledge discovery from databases, knowledge representation and reasoning systems, evolutionary intelligence, and intelligent information systems.