Pedro Encarnação is a Senior Affiliate Professor and Deputy Academic Director of the MSc in Management at CATÓLICA-LISBON – Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). He is President of AAATE – Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (2024–2025) and Visiting Professor at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
He received his B.Sc. degree in 1994, M.Sc. degree in 1998, and Ph.D. degree in 2002, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
From 2000 to 2013, he was with the Faculty of Engineering at UCP, where he served as Associate Dean between 2002 and 2008 and as coordinator of the subject area of Mathematics between 2001 and 2013.
In 2008–09, he was a Visiting Professor (Research) at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, and at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, both in Edmonton, Canada. He was a Senior Visiting Researcher at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leeds, UK, from March 2022 to February 2025.
He previously worked with the Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon, on nonlinear control problems with applications to autonomous ocean vehicles. His current research interests include Rehabilitation Engineering, namely robotic assistive technologies to support persons with disabilities.