João Alexandre Simões Martins was born on the 5th of july, 1988 in Coimbra, Portugal.

He is a MSc Student of Electrical Engineering and Computers, branch of Automation, at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers of the University of Coimbra.

On Sep. 2012, he joined the Institute of Systems and Robotics, in order to carry out his dissertation entitled "MRSLAM: Multi-Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping".

Supervisor: Prof. Rui Rocha

Co-advisor: Eng. David Portugal