Paulo Jorge Gonçalves Loureiro: - PhD in Computer Science by the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, with the thesis “Congestion Control with Support in the Intermediate Systems of the Network”. - Master (MSc) in Computer Science by the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, specialization area of Communications Networks. - Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, from the University of Aveiro. Associated Professor at Polytechnic of Leiria, at the Computer Science Department. He has been teaching several courses (curricular units) of Computer/Software Engineering such as Multimedia Services, Data Networks or Advanced Network Topics. He guides regularly BSc and MSc Dissertations. He was responsible for the creation of the Higher Professional Technical Course (CTeSP) - Computer Networks and Systems. Member of the Coordinating board of the Informatics and Communications Research Center (CIIC), of the Polytechnic of Leiria. Member of the Telematic Networks and Services Research group of the CIIC. Performs recurring scientific review activity at conferences and journals. He regularly participates in the organization of conferences. Member of Scientific Commissions at conferences. He has been making research work in the areas of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), computer networks, protocols and architectures, Network management, congestion control, Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), Multimedia communications, video and codecs. He participated in European projects: - "Validation of Integrated Telecommunication Architectures for the Long - term (VITAL)" - version 2 (1998). - “3D-ConTourNet, ICT COST Action IC1105, 3D Content Creation, Coding and Transmission over Future”. He is currently participating in the project: - SmartSIGN S2X project - Development of intelligent road signs, SI I&DT EMPRESAS EM COPROMOÇÃO, whose objective is to develop ITS-G5 technology applied to traffic signs and autonomous driving. - CRASH project - aims to develop a high precision system designed to be used in a professional simulation environment that will allow its users to reconstruct road traffic accidents.