Paulo Menezes has a Ph.D. on Electrical and Computer Engineering with Spechiality in Informatics from the University of Coimbra. He is a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (www.deec.uc.pt) of the University of Coimbra, where he has lectured courses like: Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Mobile Robotics, Microprocessors, Computer Architecture, Computer Vision and Human-Machine Interaction.

He is also an associate researcher of the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) (www.isr.uc.pt) of the University of Coimbra, where he develops re- search activities in the areas of Computer Vision, Human-Robot Interaction, Human Activity Analysis, Augmented Reality, Telepresence Systems and Assistive Technologies.