João Pedro Machado dos Santos received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra on Sep. 2013, with a M.Sc. dissertation titled "SmokeNav - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Reduced Visibility Scenarios".

He holds currently a research fellowship and is a member of the research team of the CHOPIN (Cooperation between Human and rObotic teams in catastroPhic INcidents) R&D project, under the scientific supervision of Prof. Rui P.Rocha.

His main research interests are Collaborative Context Awareness, Information Sharing, Mixed Human-Robot Teams, Cooperative Robotics, Mobile Robotics and SLAM.