Adriano Lopes is Invited Lecturer at Iscte-IUL / Department of Sciences and Information Technologies, and Associate Researcher at ISTAR-IUL.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, UK, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering - Major in Informatics and MSc in Computer Science, both from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. 

Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Nova University of Lisbon, in the Faculty of Science and Technology/Department of Informatics (FST/DI) and at University of Coimbra, in the Faculty of Science and Technology/Department of Mathematics, Portugal. Alongside teaching and research activities, he held various academic management positions in these institutions. He was also researcher at the research center CITI, hosted by FST/DI.

In the industry, he held management positions in a IT company.

Regarding teaching activities, he taught computer science subjects like Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Graphics, User Interfaces, Multimedia, Theory of Computation and Software Engineering. 

More recently, he has been teaching Big Data and Data Science related topics, namely Big Data Algorithms and Big Data Processing and Modelling.

Regarding research projects, he has participated in various projects funded by Portuguese FCT, as well as research projects with EU funding. Currently he is participating in the RESETTING (Relauching European smart sustainable tourism models through digitalization and innovative technologies) project funded by EU.