Nuno M. Garcia holds a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã, Portugal) (2008) and is a 5-year BSc in Mathematics / Informatics (Hons.) also from UBI (1999-2004). He was an entrepreneur (1988-2004), member of the Research Team at Siemens SA (2004-2007) and Nokia Siemens SA (2007-2008), and Head of Research at PLUX SA (2008-2010). Currently he is Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL) (2023-), and member of the research team of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB) (2023-). He is Vice-President of the Physics Department (2024-), and Coordinator for the PhD course on Biomedical and Biophysical Engineering at FCUL (2024-). He is also President of the Administration Board of FCiências.ID (2025-2028) (www.fciencias-id.pt), an association that includes FCUL and six private companies, managing 12 research groups and laboratories at FCUL and over 300 international R&D projects. He was the founder and is a senior researcher of the Assisted Living Computing and Telecommunications Laboratory (ALLab, 2010), a research group within the Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI. He was also co-founder and Chair of the Executive Council of the BSAFE LAB – Law enforcement, Justice and Public Safety Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research laboratory in UBI (2015-2023). He was the founder and coordinator of the Cisco Academy at UBI (2010-2020) and was Chair of the COST Action IC1303 AAPELE – Architectures, Algorithms and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (Brussels, Belgium, 2013-2017). He was identified as one of the world top 2% most influential researchers for the years 2019 and 2020 (Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918). He is member of ISOC and of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, a group within GNSO in ICANN. His main interests include predictive algorithms for healthcare and well-being, distributed and cooperative algorithms, and the battle for a Free and Open Internet.