(Ph.D., Full Professor) received the Licenciatura (5 years) and M.Sc degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST in 1984 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. (1994) in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA. Currently, he is a Full Professor at IST, Universidade de Lisboa, and the President of the Institute for Systems and Robotics. He is the co-author of two books, and Associate Editor of the Elsevier’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems. His research interests lie in the areas of discrete event models of robot tasks and planning under uncertainty, with applications to multirobot systems, He has (co-)supervised successfully 21 PhD students since 2002, and currently (co-)supervises another 4 PhD students. Pedro Lima was President and founding member of the Portuguese Robotics Society, was National Delegate to EU and ESA Space Robotics programs and was awarded a 6-month Chair of Excellence at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain in 2010. Pedro is very active in robot competitions, and he is a Trustee and currently Vice-President of the RoboCup Federation. He was also General Chair of RoboCup2004, held in Lisbon, the Coordinator of the FP7 Coordination Action RoCKIn.