Rui Miguel Pires Carvalho was born on the 4th of August of 1993, Portugal. He received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of Coimbra and is currently a M.Sc. student at this faculty.

On September 2015, he joined the AP4ISR team of the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) to develop his M.Sc. dissertation with the theme “CoopExp – Cooperative Multi-Robot Exploration”, under the supervision of Prof. Rui P. Rocha.