Fernando Gomes de Almeida is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He got his Mechanical Engineering degree from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1984. He got his PhD degree in the field of model reference adaptive control of multi-axis hydraulic manipulators from Bath University, United Kingdom, in 1993. After that he has been conducting several courses, scientific activities and industrial consultancy work at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, first as Assistant Professor, and since 2011 in its present position. From 1997 to 2004 he assumed the direction of the Systems Integration and Automated Processes Unit of IDMEC nowadays integrated into the Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics. He participated as expert consultant in more than 35 projects (mostly industrial related), 7 of which as the leading project coordinator and 4 as leading scientific coordinator. The projects have covered several technical fields: e.g., pneumatic or hydraulic actuators control, robotic manipulation, data acquisition and monitoring, remote accurate measurement of displacements, remote laboratories, PET scan medical imaging machines for breast cancer detection, machine tool design.