Pedro Bizarro’s research interests lie in work with databases, including adaptive query processing, data stream systems, event processing, benchmarks and performance, and in distributed systems as well as in virtualization. He teaches Software Development Studio I, II, III, IV and Models of Software Systems. Bizarro’s current research projects include BiCEP, Benchmarking Complex Event Processing Systems.

Bizzarro holds a B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra; an M.Sc. in Informatics Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Prior to teaching at the University of Coimbra, Bizarro worked as a software developer for CERN and the Instituto Pedro Nunes.

Licínio Roque is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches courses for the Master of Software Engineering program. His areas of research interest include information systems development methodologies; socio-technical approaches in information systems research and development; context modeling and engineering in government, information system architectures, and business modeling.

He holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D., both in Informatics Engineering, from the University of Coimbra.

Paulo Marques is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and an Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also currently the Portugal Director of the joint Master of Software Engineering. His main research interests are concurrent and large distributed systems, software engineering and reliability. He teaches courses in operating systems and enterprise application integration.

In the last few years he headed eight join projects in collaboration with institutions like the European Space Agency and Microsoft Research, leading to more than 30 publications and results that are now being applied practically at the European Space Operations Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Coimbra.

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Mário Rela teaches in the software engineerng department at the University of Coimbra where his main research interests are dependable computing, real-time systems, software fault-tolerance, embedded systems, and computer architecture.

He is also a member of the Software and Systems Engineering group at Coimbra. No degree information is available at this time.

 José Miguel Urbano is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra. He got his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 1999, after studying in Paris (Ecole Polytecnique) and Chicago (Northwestern University).

 His research interests include Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Free Boundary Problems, and he is currently the principal investigator of a research project on Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in the framework of the UT Austin|Portugal Program.

 He is a former Vice-President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society and is currently the Director of the Centre for Mathematics of the University of Coimbra and the Co-Director of the CMU|Portugal ICTI Program in Applied Mathematics.