Arlindo Oliveira

Arlindo Manuel Limede de Oliveira, born in Negage, Angola, is a Portuguese academic, researcher and writer. He is author of more than 100 scientific articles and papers in conferences and of the book The Digital Mind, published by MIT Press. He has also co-authored a book on computer architecture, published in Portuguese by IST Press.

Arlindo Oliveira obtained his engineering degree from Instituto Superior Técnico and his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a senior member of the IEEE and of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, a notable alumnus of the Technical University of Lisbon and the Head of the Portuguese node of ELIXIR. He has been director of INESC-ID between 2000 and 2009, and president of Instituto Superior Técnico since January 2012.