Luís Soares Barbosa is the Deputy Director of the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2017.
He is also affiliated with the UNU-EGOV’s host university, the University of Minho, as a full professor at the Department of Informatics and senior researcher at the High Assurance Software Laboratory at INESC TEC. Also, Luís is coordinator of its research line on participation, people, and communities.
He has coordinated six research projects at the national and international levels, bilateral partnerships with Brazil and China, and served as the Portuguese coordinator for the Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development ALFA EU-Latin America network, a Ph.D. training network funded by the European Union.
He has published more than 50 journal articles and 150 indexed papers in international conferences, and supervised five post-doc researchers, and 19 Ph.D. theses in the universities of Minho (Portugal), Nottingham (UK), San Luis (Argentina), Federal do Ceára (Brazil) and Peking (China), as well as several MSc dissertations.
Before joining UNU-EGOV, he served as invited lecturer in MSc and Ph.D. programmes at the Universities of Bristol (UK), Tartu (Estonia), and Peking (China).
Within UNU-EGOV he has participated in several consultancy and development projects with several international institutions, including UNDP and UNESCO, as well as the Governments of Colombia, S. Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Palestine, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. In 2023, he promoted a network of countries and international agencies to launch the West Africa Digital Governance Forum as a strategic think-tank whose initial meeting was held in Banjul, Gambia, in September 2023.
Luis is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) and the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Springer) book series, chairs the Steering Committees of FACS (Formal Aspects of Computer Software) and DaLi (Dynamic logic: Foundations and applications) and serves in several Steering and Programme Committees of international research initiatives.
Luis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minho, Portugal (2001) and a Habilitation degree in Informatics from the same university (2016).