Rui Dinis received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001. From 2001 to 2008 he was a Professor at IST. Since 2008 he is teaching at FCT-UNL (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa). He was a researcher at CAPS/IST (Centro de Análise e Processamento de Sinais) from 1992 to 2005; from 2005 to 2008 he was researcher at ISR/IST (Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica); in 2009 he joined the research center IT (Instituto de Telecomicações).
He has been involved in several research projects in the broadband wireless communications area. His main research interests include modulation, equalization and channel coding.