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 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, including more than 600 researchers in more than 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). Since 2010, he has participated as Principal Investigator, Coordinator, Local Coordinator or Researcher of several European or national Research projects. 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.