I have a Ph.D in Physics and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Coimbra, where I am the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Biomedical Engineering. My scientific background is in electronic and optical instrumentation. I started my scientific career in the field of Nuclear Electronics and worked in Real-Time Data Acquisition and Timing Systems for space (my graduate thesis in Physics Engineering was done in contract with ESA - European Space Agency) and nuclear applications (electronics for nuclear radiation detectors; timing and control systems for nuclear fusion experiments). I shifted my research to Biomedical Instrumentation, focusing mainly in ocular fluorescence. I have done work in lens and retinal fluorescence and in corneal confocal microscopy. Currently, I work mainly on Ocular Functional Imaging (Multiphoton Microscopy of the Cornea) and on Optical Coherence Elastography. I have interest in several techniques for Biomedical Optical Imaging. I am also a co-founder of several active companies, including a successful award-winning global company specialized in Telemetry and M2M (Machine to Machine) Communications and a company specialized in continuous remote health monitoring and follow-up. My current scientific interests are: Optical Imaging, Ocular Functional Imaging, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy, Multiphoton Microscopy; Optical Coherence Elastography and Tomography, and Biomedical Optics.