MICHELE ALBANODr. Michele Albano is Research Associate in the CISTER Research Unit of the Polytechnic of Porto (Portugal), and Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave (Portugal). His research focuses on Cyber Physical Systems and CommunicationMiddleware, in particular for the application areas of industrial maintenance, smart grids, and vehicular networks. He is a Founding Member of the Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC). Michele received his BSc degree in Physics in 2003, and his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2004, 2006 and 2010 respectively, all of them from the University of Pisa, Italy. He was visiting researcher at Universidad de Malaga in 2007, at University of New York at Stony Brook in 2009, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes in Aveiro, Portugal, from 2010 to 2012, and before being a researcher he worked as a software engineer and wireless technology specialist in private companies in the period from 2001 to 2006. In the context of the MANTIS project, he was Work Package leader for WP3 "Smart sensing and data acquisition technologies" and for WP8 "Dissemination of knowledge and exploitation". Michele is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Social Technologies and of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies since 2011, and in 2015 he has been appointed as Editor in Chief for the Journal of Green Engineering. Read More Read Less