Professor of computer science at ISLA Santarem (Portugal), where he is also the Dean of the research center, director of studies of the MSc in Web Technologies and Systems Engineering, of the Post-Graduation in Data Science, BSc in Computer Science Engineering and short cycle professional higher education course in Artificial Intelligence. He is an integrated research member at INEGI, LAETA (Portugal), external professor at Faculty of Medicine and Odontology, University of Valencia (Spain), External examiner of the MSc Advanced Health and Care Management at Swansea University (UK) and International Advisory Board of the Biomedical Engineering department of SRM University (India). He acts as Editor in Chief of the Imaging Science Journal and is member of the editorial boards of the journals: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications, Educational Science and Artificial Intelligence in Health. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (UK), where he was also recognized as Accredited Senior Imaging Scientist. 

Doctor in Telecommunication Engineering by the Technical University of Madrid, and M.Sc. in Philosophy by the National University for Distance Education, UNED) he is currently a Professor at the Madrid Open University, Spain,  and at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Between 1997  and 2009, he was an associate professor at the University Alfonso X el Sabio. As a researcher, he also worked at the Technical University of Madrid (1997-2003) and the Technical University of Vienna (1996). He has been a Visiting and Invited Professor at several universities in Europe and Latin America. He is currently co-president of the International Association for the Study of Information (IS4SI), coordinator of the BITrum-Research Group, member of the Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS, Austria), the Institute für Desgn Science (Germany), and the International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE). He belongs to the editorial boards of the Journals TripleC, International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE), Systema, and glossariumBITri. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of information communication, perception, systems and complexity.

Ricardo Queirós holds a PhD in Computer Science and is an Associate Professor in Informatics at the School of Media Arts and Design, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, where he teaches courses on web and mobile programming. He is also a researcher at the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), INESC TEC Porto, working in the areas of gamification, interoperability in e-learning systems, and programming language learning.

In addition, he coordinates the Distance Learning Office at the Pedagogical Innovation Center (CIP) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. He is also the founder and chair of the International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC), the first international conference dedicated exclusively to computer programming education.

His current research focuses on the design and implementation of AI gamified learning environments to foster the teaching and learning process in computer programming courses. Over his career, he has authored more than 200 scientific publications and 12 books, the latest of which, now completed and set to be published at the end of this year, is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and chatbots.