Maria Paula Queluz received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1985 and 1989 respectively, and the PhD degree from the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1996. Since 1985, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, where she is currently an Assistant Professor. She is also a research member at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. She was the Portuguese representative to the project COST-206 and she has participated in the European projects RACE HAMLET, MANADIX, ACTS TALISMAN and IST B-BONE. She has a good experience in the field of Image and Video Communications with emphasis on coding, watermarking and quality evaluation. Due to her academic activities and interests and participation in national and international projects integrating various areas of Telecommunications, she has also a good knowledge in fields such as digital transmission and wireless communications. She has also been involved in several international conferences participating in the Technical and Organizing Committees, as a Session Chair, and as a Reviewer.
