Biography

Nuno Jardim Nunes is a Full professor at Tecnico – University of Lisbon and the President and founder of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), the leading HCI and design research institute in Portugal. Nuno is the co-Director of the Carnegie Mellon International partnership and adjunct faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Nuno strongly advocates the role of human-centric design in participatory culture and sustainability. His research influenced how digital technologies (including sensors, ML/AI, interactive storytelling, and mixed reality) can engage and inspire digital citizens to act sustainably and connect to nature and the broader ecosystems. Recently Nuno is coordinating the Bauhaus of the Seas one of the lighthouse projects of the New European Bauhaus. Nuno organised several top conferences of the ACM SIGCHI and published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of HCI, software, energy, sustainability, design, and service science. He was PI and co-PI of several research projects totalling more than 35M€ from European to national and industry-funded.