Paulo Freitas has a Bsc in Physics from the University of Porto and a PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University (1986). After his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, he was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (1986-87). He is author of more than 250 scientific articles, one patent and inventor of a bioelectronic device. He has supervised 9 PhD students and developed an intense educational mission to train and coach new scientists and engineers.