José Alexandre de Carvalho Gonçalves received the Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees in Electrical engineering and computers from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2000, 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal in subjects like Automation, Robotics, Embedded systems, Electronics and Instrumentation. He is Senior Member of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems research group from INESC-TEC since 2009 and he is also CeDRI-IPB researcher since 2019. His main research areas are localization, navigation, control and prototyping of mobile robots. He currently holds the following positions: President of the Automatic Control Portuguese Association, Director of the Master of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal, and he is also the responsible of the Electrotechnical Laboratory of CeDRI-IPB research Group.