Pedro António Amado de Assunção, was born in August 1965 in Coimbra, Portugal. He obtained the degree of Licenciado in Electrical Engineering in 1988 and the Master degree in 1993, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 1998 he obtained the PhD degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. From October 1988 to August 1990 he worked as research engineer at the University of Coimbra, in the development of a multi-processor hardware video codec. In September 1990, started his academic career as teaching assistant at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria), where he is currently Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering. He has been the responsible for several course units of Bachelor, Licenciatura and Master degree programmes, in the fields of Electronics, Telecommunications, Digital Communications, Introduction to Research and Multimedia Communications. He was the coordinator of several final year projects, internships and scholarships associated with research projects and integration of students in research activities. He was also the advisor / co-advisor of 20 master's dissertations and 9 PhD theses. He held the positions of Master degree programme coordinator, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and served as either Chair or member in several different academic bodies at ESTG / IPLeiria. His research work has been mainly focused on the field of processing and coding of visual information for multimedia communications. Also worked on aspects related to quality and robust voice communications and most recently in processing and lossless coding of medical images in various modalities. He participated in 22 R&D projects financed by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), ANI (Agência Nacional de Inovação), IPLeiria (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria) or IT (Instituto de Telecomunicações), and was the Principal Investigator (PI) in 13 of them. He was the Chair of a COST Action, a European network for Cooperation in Science and Technology funded by the European Commission, which involved researchers from 26 participating countries. He is the author / co-author of 44 articles published in international journals, 163 published in international/national conferences, 4 patents filed in the United States, 2 books, and 14 book chapters. 4 different research works published in co-authorship, were distinguished with international awards. His research work comprises diverse contributions in the area of processing and coding of audiovisual information, particularly addressing video coding and transcoding, multiple description coding, methods and architectures for robust video coding, error concealment algorithms to minimize the visual distortion caused by transmission errors in 3D and multi-view video, processing for flexible representation of video based on visual attention models, non-reference quality models for 3D video, quality monitoring and optimization in voice communications, fast decision methods to reduce and control computational complexity of high efficiency video encoders, processing and lossless coding of medical images and light fields. He was member of the programme committee in many international conferences and workshops and was either in charge or collaborator in the organization of more than two dozen international scientific events, including meetings, workshops, and conferences. He acted as reviewer of more than 700 scientific articles submitted to several international journals and conferences and gave 34 invited talks. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he has been head of the Multimedia Signal Processing - Leiria group (MSP_Lr) since 2013.