Paulo is the founder of Allbesmart LDA (www.allbesmart.pt), an engineering SME that offers outsourced engineering services to design and develop customized Software Defined Radio implementations of 3GPP protocols to accelerate 5G/6G product development.We invest in applied research and development and put a component of innovation in all solutions, exceeding customer expectations.

Paulo received his PhD from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) – 2007 in Wireless Communications. He is a Professor of Wireless Communications at Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal). He was the scientific coordinator of the FP7 COGEU project (Cognitive radio systems in the European context) from Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2012, managing a budget of 5.5m€ EU funding. COGEU project was evaluated by the EC as “Excellent” in its final audit. In Oct. 2012 Paulo Marques has taken up… Show more Paulo received his PhD from the University of Aveiro (Portugal) – 2007 in Wireless Communications. He is a Professor of Wireless Communications at Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal). He was the scientific coordinator of the FP7 COGEU project (Cognitive radio systems in the European context) from Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2012, managing a budget of 5.5m€ EU funding. COGEU project was evaluated by the EC as “Excellent” in its final audit. In Oct. 2012 Paulo Marques has taken up Chairmanship of the European Commission’s “Radio Access and Spectrum” cluster projects under Objective 1.1 - Future Networks of the ICT Work Programme. From Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2015 he was the project manager of the coordination action FP7 CRS-i (Cognitive Radio Standardization initiative). He is a co-author of the IEEE P1900.6 radio standard and an active member of ETSI RRS WG. He was the demo chair of the IEEE DySPAN 2015 and CROWNCOM 2016 conferences and the general chair of CROWNCOM 2017. He has published more than 70 scientific research papers on Wireless Communications. Show less

Scientific coordinator of the European R&D projects FP7 COGEU (Cognitive Radio Systems in the European context) with a total budget of 5.5m€, and the FP7 CRS-i (Cognitive Radio Standardization initiative), with a total budget of 1.2m€.