Marco Gomes was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1977. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering specialty in telecommunications from the University of Coimbra in 2004 and 2011, respectively, where he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology. He is also a Researcher with the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and performs different collaborations under his research and development activities with other institutions and universities worldwide. His main research interests include wireless digital communications, massive-MIMO, large intelligent surfaces, general signal processing for communications, software defined radio, error control coding and physical layer security. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Dr. Gomes is also an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, the IEEE ComSoc On-Line Content, and Physical Communication (Elsevier).