Luís Santos holds a PhD from the University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal. He is currently an Invited Researcher at University of Coimbra and is acting as a Project and Technical Manager for the H2020 GrowMeUp Project (GA 643647 www.growmeup.eu).

He held a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Systems and Robotics of the University of Coimbra from October 2014 to March 2015. He acted as a seconded researcher from the UC to a company, Citard Services Ltd., within the scope of the Marie Curie IAPP Project Social Robot (GA 285870 - http://mrl.isr.uc.pt/projects/socialrobot), till the 30th of September, 2014. He holds a Pre-Bologna M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, specialization in Robotics and Automation by the Faculty of Science and Technology from the University of Coimbra. He worked as researcher in the area of human-robot interaction and action recognition using Laban Movement Analysis, within the BACS European Project from November 2007 to February 2010. His current research topics mainly focus on machine learning methods for autonomous cognitive systems and human motion analysis towards end-user applications.  Pos-doc at ISR 2014-2018, currently Data Scientist (Analytics) at CELfocus,  Lisbon, Portugal