Prof. Dr. Jose A. Afonso

José A. Afonso graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, in 1993. He obtained an MSc in Informatics from the University of Minho, Portugal, in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Electronics from the University of Minho, in 2005. Presently, he is an Assistant in the Department of Industrial Electronics at the University of Minho and a researcher at the CMEMS-UMinho R&D center and the LABBELS Associate Laboratory. He is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 2 patents. His main research interests are wireless sensor networks, the Internet of Things, body area networks, mobile sensing, wireless communications, and medium access control protocols.