Rui Torres was born in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal. He started as an intern at the theory and simulation team of Group of Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP)/IPFN to investigate the role of 6-photon scattering processes in the polarization of vacuum. He obtained his MSc degree in Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL). The topic of his MSc thesis was realistic modelling of vacuum polarization induced light scattering scenarios in extreme intense fields under the supervision of Professor Luís O. Silva and Dr. Thomas Grismayer. Thereupon, he was awarded a grant to further study the effects of an imperfect vacuum or imperfect electromagnetic pulses in the characterization of the QED signatures induced. Currently, his PhD work intends to explore magnetospheric plasma dynamics in the vicinity of rotating compact objects with general relativistic considerations.