Ph.D. degree in 1987 and Doctor of Medicine degree in 1994. Established 40+ years ago a human translational experimental and clinical pain research and innovation unit at Aalborg in Denmark with 60+ researchers and clinicians from all over world affiliated. The basic neurobiological/-physiological research and innovation focuse on 1) fundamental translational pain research, 2) experimental, quantitative, methods for the assessment of pain from musculoskeletal structures in healthy volunteers and pain patients and 3) proof-of-concept and target validation studies on new analgesic, anti-inflammatory and disease modifying compounds. He has published 1,425 peer reviewed journal papers (sum of times cited 55,591, average citations per item 39.01, H-index 112, Web of Science in the area of pain. Been guest professor in Japan, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, and USA. Knighted by the Danish Queen President of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) from 2018-2020

Award-winning inventor, researcher, and entrepreneur. Co-founder of multiple innovative technology-based companies operating in the field of medical devices and data science for health. PhD in Electrical and Computers Engineering with Habilitation in Biomedical Engineering, both from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - University of Lisbon (UL), Hugo is Senior Researcher at the IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações (http://www.it.pt/person_detail_p.asp?id=1293) since 2004, and currently coordinator of the “Information and Data Science” thematic line. He is also an Invited Professor at the Bioengineering Department of IST since 2019. Both at a technical and scientific level, he has actively contributed to and participated in more than 70 national and international projects, funded by grants from Horizon 2020, Portugal 2020, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), and several other private and public institutions (e.g. BBC, Vodafone, or Nokia). Hugo has 10 granted patents and published 280+ papers in peer reviewed journals, international refereed conferences, and book chapters. His main interest interests include biosignal research, system engineering, signal processing, and machine learning, and his work has been distinguished with several academic and technical awards such as the “IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award” in 2023, the “Career Award alumniIPS” in 2018, the “Best Industrial and Enabling Technology” at the European Commission’s DG-CONNECT Innovation Radar Prize in 2017, or the 1st place at the Ordem dos Engenheiros Young Engineer Innovation Award in 2015, just to name a few.