Dr. Anderson Maciel is an associate professor with the Department of Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. He is also an integrated member of INESC-ID. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UFRGS (Brazil) and a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality from EPFL (Switzerland). He has conducted research and innovation projects in visual computing applied to medicine, mainly on virtual reality training simulators, physics-based soft-tissue simulation, 3D human-computer interaction, haptic interaction, and image analysis. He is the author of more than a hundred papers in indexed journals and peer-reviewed conferences. As an associate editor of the Computers & Graphics journal, he co-edits a special section on XR Technologies for Healthcare and Wellbeing.