Mário Jorge Pinto Cristóvão has a BSc and an MSc degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Coimbra, since July 2021 and February 2023, respectively. He has accumulated experience and knowledge in machine learning, automation, and parallel computing through three internships at AIBILI (2019), ActiveSpace (2020), and ASML in the Netherlands (2021/2022). Furthermore, he has R&D experience in artificial perception, mobile robotics, SLAM, and multi-sensor fusion, having been part of the SEMFIRE Portugal2020 project with a BSc fellowship (2022) on the development of artificial perception mechanisms for forestry robotics, as well as the SafeForest Large Scale CMU Portugal project.