João Matos is presently Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. At IST he was co-founder and coordinator of the Master Course in Geographical Information Systems and coordinator of a research group. His research scope covered different fields of geomatics and its applications to land planning, natural resources, environment and infrastructure management. Among his most relevant projects is the technical coordination of the delimitation and demarcation of the land boundary between Timor-Leste and Indonesia, working for the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Timor-Leste (2010-2016). In Timor-Leste he was also part, with coordination roles, of projects such as: Establishment of the National Geodetic Network and National Spatial Data Infrastructure, National Master Plan and the National School Mapping. In Angola, working for KPMG Angola as Director for Special Projects (2009) he coordinated several Municipal Master Plans for the provinces of Huambo and Bengo. Having published more than one hundred papers in journals and conference proceedings, his scope of activity also covered publications for educational purposes, namely the book “Fundamentos de Informação Geográfica”, first printed in 2001 and still being re-printed and widely used as reference text in universities from Portuguese speaking countries. He was president of the Geographic Engineering College of the National Association of Engineers, active member of the ISO TC211 on Geographic Information, namely as editor of the standard 19131 – Data Product Specification, and awarded with the international award Gago Coutinho in 2008 for its research and application work on land boundaries.