Gonçalo dos Santos Martins is an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, branch of Computation, a degree awarded at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra.

On September 2013, he joined the Institute of Systems and Robotics in order to carry out his M.Sc. dissertation, entitled "A Cooperative SLAM Framework with Efficient Information Sharing over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", under the supervision of Prof. Rui P. Rocha.

Having completed his M.Sc. studies, he joined the GrowMeUp Project (H2020 Grant# 643647) on March 2015 as a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Dias and Dr. Luís Santos, conducting research on the field of User-Adaptive Systems, with particular focus on User Modelling, User-Adaptive POMDPs and Machine Learning optimization.

On February 2018, he joined the EuroAGE Project (Reference POCTEP-0043_EUROAGE_4_E) as a researcher, where he currently focuses on activity recognition for elderly users interacting with social robots and long-term robust operation of social robots.