António Malheiro is an Associate Professor at the Mathematics Department of NOVA School of Science and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal), as well as a member of the Research Center for Mathematics and Applications (NOVA Math). He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Lisbon and a Habilitation from NOVA University of Lisbon. He was the Director of the research center NOVA Math, with more than 100 researchers, in the period 2018-2022. Since 2022, he is the President of the Portuguese National Mathematics Committee. Malheiro is also a member of the Faculty Council of NOVA FCT. He has attracted competitive funding from national funding bodies, and he has coordinated one research project with several hired postdocs and researchers, and acted as a team member in 5 other. Malheiro has a wide experience in supervision with completed 4 postdoctoral fellows, 2 Ph.D. students, and 2 Master students. He also supervised several other research grants for young students. He works daily closely with a Team of 3 Junior Researchers, 2 Postdocs, 1 Ph.D. student, 1 Master's student and other faculty members. His research interests include Algebra and Combinatorics, namely in Groups and Semigroups, Algebraic Combinatorics, Cryptography, Coding theory, and Computational Algebra. Malheiro has published 34 research papers in top journals in the area.