Vítor Fonte is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV). He is also a full-time Assistant Professor at the University of Minho, and a senior researcher at INESC TEC’s High Assurance Software Laboratory (INESC TEC/HASLab).
Since 1993 he has taught various master-level courses on operating and distributed systems, computer security and cybercrime.
Since 2014 he has led several national and international-level research projects and training courses on cybersecurity, ranging from infrastructure to information systems security and digital identity.
In 2021, his on-going research project IDINA on inclusive digital identity won the first prize of the IN3+ Award, the most significant international award regarding innovation in ICT in Portugal.
Within UNU-EGOV he has participated in several consultancy and development projects with various international institutions, including UNDP, as well as the Governments of S. Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. He has been a research member on several national, and European-funded, research project teams, and supervises Ph.D. students and postdoc researchers on distributed systems and computer security. He has also served on the program and organizing committees of several international conferences on computer science, and, more recently, electronic governance.
He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics (Programming Technologies, 2009), an MSc in Informatics (Distributed Systems, 1998), and a BSc in Systems and Informatics Engineering (1993); all degrees from the University of Minho, Portugal.