Expertise on optical fiber sensors and optical devices for optical communications and sensing. He received a Ph.D. degree in Physics Engineering from the UA, Portugal, in 2013. He was a Marie Curie (MC) Fellow in the Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies, Aston University, U.K until March 2016. Currently, he is a Research Scientist in the Physics Department & I3N, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. His main interests include optical fiber devices for sensing, integrated optics, low cost interrogation systems, machine learning, data acquisition and optical transmission data. He authored or co-authored 3 books, 6 book chapters, 180+ journal peer-review papers, more than 100 conference papers with emphasis on optical communications, data processing and sensing. According to Google Scholar, journal/conference articles have received 5000+ citations (h-index: 52). He was an organization member of IMOC2019 conference. He was awarded with several awards. He is a regular expert evaluator of international research projects of different countries such as Romania (UEFISCDI agency), Belgium (F.R.S.-FNRS), UK (via Multiply project - Marie Curie actions), Portugal (ANI), Serbia ( Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Fond za nauku agency) and Poland (NCN agency). He is a regular TPC member of some conferences of the Optics and Photonics fields, and he is regularly invited as session chairman in some international conferences.