J. Miguel Sanches (JS) received the E.E., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), in 1991, 1996 and 2003 respectively and the habilitation (agregação) in 2013 by the Universidade de Lisboa (UL) in Biomedical Engineering. JS is Full Professor at the Department of Bioengineering (DBE) at the IST where he is coordinating the scientific area of Biomedical Systems and Biosignals and the Master and Doctoral Programs in Biomedical Engineering. Before he was at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) where has taught in the area of signal processing, systems and control. JS is Deputy president for the scientific affairs of the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) and coordinator of the thematic area Life from the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS). He develops his research activity at the ISR in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering (LASEEB). JS is senior member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). His work has been focused in Biomedical Engineering (BME), namely, in biological and medical image processing and in statistical signal processing of physiological and behavioral data. Currently, JS is mainly working into two lines of research: developing new tools and methodological strategies to quantify and map molecular and morphometric pathologic cancer biomarkers and developing quantitative methods for diagnosis and follow-up in psychiatry in face-to-face and teleconsultation environments. As a group leader, JS has been able to create a truly multidisciplinary and stimulating environment where researchers from top institutions from the biology and medicine areas work close together with engineers and computer scientists. Approximately 200 international publications (ORCID and Google Scholar) were already produced in the scope of this collaborative work.