Rui P. Rocha is a tenured Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra and a Permanent Researcher of the Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra. He received the pre-Bologna Engineering, M.Sc., and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, in 1996, 1999 and 2006, respectively. His main research area is cooperative mobile robotics and his main research interests are multi-robot systems, cooperative perception, multi-robot coordination, service robotics, ambient assisted living (AAL) and autonomous robots. He has been involved in several FP6, FP7, and H2020 EU-funded R&D projects developed in consortium, was the PI of a research project on urban search and rescue robotics, and has been the local coordinator of technology transfer projects on multi-robot patrolling of infrastructures and on AAL. He is the co-author of about 100 papers published in ISI-indexed scientific journals, book chapters, and proceedings of peer-reviewed international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems.