Luis M. T. Jesus received his first degree in 1996 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, a M.Sc. degree in Speech Coding and Synthesis in 1997 from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and a Ph.D. degree in Acoustic Phonetics in 2001 from the University of Southampton, UK. Since 2001, he has been lecturing at the School of Health Sciences (ESSUA), University of Aveiro, and has been a member of the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University de Aveiro, Portugal. His research interests include phonetics, speech production and perception, speech production models, and human communication pathology. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the European Stroke Organisation (ESO), and the International Phonetic Association (IPA).