Prof. Dr. Jose Barata is Full Professor at the Electrical and Computing Engineering, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computing Engineering at the NOVA-FCT, where he is currently responsible for the courses units Robotics, Systems Integration, Telerobotics and Autonomous Systems, and Robotics Systems and CIM. He is a senior researcher at the CTS – Centre of Technology and Systems at the UNINOVA Institute, where he is also coordinating the research group RICS – Robotics and Industrial Complex Systems, that develops research in the areas of service robots and smart industry. Within the RICS group, he leads the UNINOVA participation in several international projects from different European  and Portuguese Programs in a variety of fields, particularly developing emerging technologies in different sectors. He has coordinated the participation of UNINOVA in several industrial projects related to industry 4.0 and autonomous service robots for surveillance and agriculture. He has published over 300 original papers in international journals and international conferences. He is a member of the IEEE technical committees on Industrial Agents (IES), Self-Organisation and Cybernetics for Informatics (SMC), and Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies (IES). He is also a member of the IFAC technical committee 4.4.