Miguel Rocha is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho (Portugal), where heteaches in the Informatics Department and has a senior researcher position in the Centreof Biological Engineering. He is the Director and founder of the Master in Bioinformaticssince 2007, teaching and coordinating curricular units related to Bioinformatics algorithmsand tools, data analysis and machine learning. His research is mainly devoted toBioinformatics subjects, including the development of tools and algorithms for metabolicmodelling andomics data analysis.