Prof. Paulo Carvalho
Department of Informatics Engineering
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Coimbra
Associate Editor,
IEEE Journal on Biomedical and Health Informatics
Biographical Sketch
Paulo de Carvalho holds a Full Professor position at the University of Coimbra. He is the co-founder and co-coordinator of the Health Informatics Lab (LInC) at the University of Coimbra, devoted to the research of intelligent algorithms for medical applications with a focus on intelligent solutions for tele-medical management of chronic diseases and aging. His main scientific interests are intelligent biosignal processing, intelligent algorithms for medical applications and trustworthy AI in medicine. He raised over 65 million € in competitive funding inside LInC and published over 300 scientific papers with over 3700 citations and several patents. He was the Director of the Department of Informatics Engineering (2011-2013) and is since 2019 the Deputy Dean for Research at FCTUC until 2024. He is the Deputy Director of the Ethics Committee of UC. At the international level he coordinated the Working Group on eHealth and Health Informatics of the IFMBE between 2015 and 2023, and he coordinates the Digital Health Division of the IFMBE since its foundation in 2023. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal on Biomedical and Health Informatics.