Fernando J. Velez (M93SM05) received the Licenciado, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon in 1993, 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering of Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Associate Professor. He is also a senior researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicações. Fernando was an IEF Marie Curie Research Fellow in King’s College London (KCL) in 2008/09(OPTIMOBILE IEF) and a Marie Curie ERG fellow at Universidade da Beira Interior from 2010 until March 2013 (PLANOPTI ERG). Fernando was the coordinator of the Instituto de Telecomunicações team in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Action (TeamUp5G) that started in 2019 and finished mid-2023. He made or makes part of the teams of more than 45 European and Portuguese research projects on mobile communications, and he was the coordinator of six Portuguese projects. Recently, he was the coordinator of CONQUEST (CMU/ECE/0030/2017), an exploratory project from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Portugal, a collaboration with the Department of Engineering and Public Policy from CMU. He has authored three books, 25 book chapters, 188 papers and communications in international journals and conferences, plus 43 in national conferences. Fernando is currently the IEEE VTS Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Chapter Coordinator (nominated by VTS in 2010) and was the elected IEEE VTS Portugal Chapter coordinator from 2006 until 2014. He was also the adjunct coordinator from the Telecommunications Specialization of Ordem dos Engenheiros until the beginning of 2025. Prof. Velez was the coordinator of the WG2 (on Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio Coexistence Studies) of COST IC0905 TERRA, and was, until Spring of 2024, the co-Chair of VT4 (Smart Cities and Buildings) in COST CA20120 INTERACT. He has also got a rich experience in the creation of courses and bachelor, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, and long-last experience on evaluating tens of M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis. From 2014 until 2020, Fernando Velez was proud of coordinating the Covilhã branch of the Instituto de Telecomunicações, a site of his research unit with around 25 Ph.D. researchers, more than 20 Ph.D. students and tens of M.Sc. students. From 2019 until now he has been one of the scientific coordinators of the prestigious Carnegie Melon University - Portugal research program. He supervised six Ph.D. students, who concluded their thesis until 2023, 27 M.Sc. students and 20 final year project students, and his currently supervising six Ph.D. students and three M.Sc. students. His main research areas are ccellular planning tools, traffic from mobility, wireless body sensor networks and wearable technologies, ML applied to radio resource management and wearable healthcare technologies, spectrum management, and cost/revenue performance of advanced mobile communication systems.