Nuno Pereira received a degree in computer engineering from the School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal, a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, in 2002 and 2005 and 2010 respectively. He is a researcher at CISTER, a top-ranked research unit of the Portuguese research system since 2001. He started his research work dedicated to traffic scheduling combining multimedia and industrial communication protocols, and also analyzed the timing behavior of several industrial communication protocols, having developed analysis techniques for them. More recently, Nuno developed novel medium access control protocols for wireless networks and explored efficient ways to obtain aggregated quantities in large scale, dense wireless networks. His research was published in more than 30 technical papers in peer reviewed scientific venues.