Ricardo Oliveira finished his PhD degree in Physics Engineering at University of Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2017 and his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2010. During his career, Ricardo worked in 12 different projects related to fiber optic technologies with focus in sensors, devices and communications. Currently, he is a Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, where he is developing innovative devices based on chiral fiber gratings for a national FCT project where he is the Principal Investigator (PTDC/EEI-TEL/1511/2020). Recently, Ricardo won a Junior researcher contract level (1st place), at the Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering Panel, in a competitive call for the National Stimulus of Scientific Employment (CEEC 4th edition), promoted by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Since 2018, he has been an Invited Professor in the curricular units of Applied Optics and Electronics at the Physics department of the University of Aveiro. During his career, Ricardo published 24 journal papers cited in SCI (14 Q1 (1 invited) and 9 Q2), 15 of which he was first author and 4 as first co-author. Furthermore, he also published 29 papers in International Conference Proceedings, from which 5 have been invited. His publications are also found for one T&F book (2019) and 2 book chapters (Springer and T&F), published in 2018 and 2019, respectively, all of them as first author. The work developed by Ricardo has been promoted in national exhibition stands, such as Qualifica POCH; TECHDAYS and Research Day, showing some devices resulting from his research. He has also participated in the organization of 2 International Conferences and he is actively involved in the scientific peer review activities, reviewing >140 journal papers in the last 5 years, in high level International Journals (Nature, Optica, IEEE, Elsevier), receiving awards by his review quality. Furthermore, he is currently Journal Topic Editor of Sensors and Optica member. Regarding supervision activities, he was supervisor of 4 students, and also co-supervisor of 3. Currently, he is supervising 4 students. Ricardo has participated in the preparation of several national and International Project applications, getting financial support from some of them, either as team member:(HiPOF; AQUATICsens; MCTechs; BioPlus; sWAT, ELVIS and PTDC/101726/2008, AM-OPTICAL, GRASS-LIGHT) and also as PI (FOPE-ComSens and TwistedPOF). He participated as Postdoctoral Fellow in 1 project, Research Fellow in 2 projects, Researcher in 5, and PI in 1 project. During his career, Ricardo interacted with 114 collaborators, with whom he has co-authorship of scientific papers. From those collaborations, Ricardo had also the opportunity to visit and work with different groups overseas, allowing him to get knowledge in different branch areas such as femtosecond laser inscription (@ Curitiba, Brazil) and also to fabricate silica and polymer fibers (Campinas @ Brazil). Ricardo works in the area of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Optics. According to google scholar Ricardo has a h-index of 13 and has a total of 497 citations (435 in the last 5 years). In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological output are: Short and long period fiber gratings; Fiber optic sensors; Optical communications; Polymer optical fibers; Microstructured fibers; Interferometry (Fabry Pérot and Multimode Interferometers); physical and chemical sensors; fiber post-processing, Bragg sensors, Optical 3D printing, etc.