MSc in Digital Electronics at UMIST, Manchester, UK, in 1979 and the PhD also in Manchester in 1982; received the Habillitation in 1998 at U. Minho.Started the academic career at U. Porto in 1976, moved to U. Minho in 1977, where is currently Full Professor at Dep. Informatics, School of Engineering, since 2001.Key topics in academic activities (research, pedagogic and management) range from digital electronics to high-performance computing (HPC), including computer architecture, parallel computing and heterogeneous computing. Key application areas are in heritage, computer vision, physics, chemistry, current focus on efficient computing in several types of computing resources and application domains.Edited several books with conference proceedings as chair of the event, and has several indexed publications (ISI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM) in book chapters, journals and proceedings of international and national conferences.During the past 42 years at the university, lectured a wide range of courses for Lic., MSc and PhD degrees (some in UK), and successfully oriented several MSc dissertations and PhD thesis works.Chaired the University Computer Centre for 17 years (since 1985), introducing the 1st national service with parallel computing, chaired and co-chaired the Advanced Computing theme in the cooperation program between the University of Texas at Austin and Portugal for 11 years (since 2006), and currently leads the university research services on parallel computing with the heterogeneous computer cluster SeARCH (since 2005).