Positions

Institutional

• Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the MBZIRC, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2014-2020)

• Vice President (2023- ), Trustee (2016-) and Former Trustee (2003-2012) of the RoboCup Federation

• Founding Elected President (2006) and 2008, 2009 and 2013 President of IEEE Portugal RAS Chapter

• Founding member (No 1) and Former President (2009-2010) of Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica (Portuguese Robotics Society)

• Cátedra de Excelencia (6 months) awarded by the Board of Governors of the U. Carlos III de Madrid: sabbatical leave at the Robotics Lab from 1 Feb to 31 July 2010

• Member of NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic System for Space Exploration - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (1990-1994)

Editorial Boards

• Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2011-) - Associate Editor since 2016

• IN-TECH International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (2005-2009)

• World Scientific Publishers International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (1996-2002)

• Portuguese journal Robótica (1999-)

Conference Chair

• Organizing Committee member of IEEE/RSJ IROS2024, Abu-Dhabi, UAE

• Senior Program Committee member of IEEE/RSJ IROS2018, Madrid, Spain

• Competitions Co-Chair of IEEE/RSJ IROS2012, IROS2018 and IROS2021

• Multi-Robots Special Track Chair of AAMAS’08

• General Co-Chair of RoboCup 2004

• Member of the Organizing Committee of Robótica 2011 and Robótica 2003 Lisbon editions of the Festival Nacional de Robótica (Portuguese Robotics Open)

• Main organizer of the Festival Internacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, held in Loures, 1997, the first international robot competition held in Portugal.