Paulo P. Monteiro received the diploma “Licenciatura” in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1988, the M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales UK in 1990, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in 1999. Presently, he is an Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro and a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações. From October 2002 until March 2007, he was at Siemens S.A, Portugal, as a Head of Research of Optical Networks. From April 2007 until December 2009 he was at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Portugal as a Research Manager at Transport, Aggregation and Fixed Access and from January 2010 until June 2012 as an R&D manager of Network Optimization unit at NSN. From July 2012 until May 2013, he was a Research Manager at NSN Portugal. In May 2013, the Optical Networks business unit of Nokia Siemens Networks began operating as a new company, Coriant, which he left in June 2013. In 1992, he joined the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Aveiro and the Optical Communications Group of the Institute for Telecommunications as an Assistant Professor and Researcher, respectively. In 1999, he became an Auxiliary Professor at the University of Aveiro and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. His main research interests include Optical Communication Networks, Microwave Photonic and Electronic Subsystems. He tutored and co-tutored successfully more than 15 PhD’s, having participated in more than 26 projects (national, and international). He was the coordinator of a CELTIC project, OPTRONET, and a large-scale integrating project, FUTON (FP7 ICT-2007–215533). He has authored/co-authored more than 18 patent applications and over 216 papers in journals, and 209 conference contributions and 16 book chapters (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4664-9238). He is the coordinator of the research infrastructure ORCIP (https://orcip.pt/).