Prof. Manuel Eduardo Correia has a Phd in Computer Science from the University of Porto and a MSc in Computer Engineering from Imperial College. He is an Associate Professor at the computer science department of the Faculty of Science, where he was director of the Masters course on compuiter security from 2014 until 2018. He is currently the Pro-Rector for technological infrastructures and information security at the University of Porto.
He has an extensive experience in national and international computer security research projects at the CRACS group of INESC TEC Porto, where he has worked extensively in the field of anomaly detection and identity management. He has also been a technical advisor for some Portuguese public agencies (Health and Education), namely acting as a consultant for the security of the national electronic prescription system, being also responsible for the development of the biometric match-on-card system, currently being deployed by the Portuguese national citizen (eID) card.