Vitor Santos obtained a 5-year degree in Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications in 1989 at the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal, where he later obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and a Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the UA, where he lectures several courses on robotics and computer vision and has carried out research activity on mobile robotics, autonomous driving, and humanoid robotics. He supervised and co-supervised more than 100 students in Masters, PhD, and Postdoc programs and coordinated the creation of two university degrees in the field of Automation at the UA. He founded the ATLAS project for a mobile robot competition that achieved six first prizes in the annual Autonomous Driving competition and has coordinated the development of ATLASCAR, the first real car with autonomous navigation capabilities in Portugal. He was involved in the organization of several scientific events, including being the General Chair of the IEEE ICARSC2021. He was one of the co-founders of the Portuguese Society of Robotics in 2006.