Luís Miguel Grilo (PhD in Mathematics and Statistics, Technical University of Lisbon, 2006) is currently Adjunct Professor and Director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (PIT), Portugal. As an integrated member of the Center for Mathematics and Applications of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon (CMA-FCT-UNL), develops scientific research in Distributions Theory (exact and near-exact distributions of some statistics used in Multivariate Analysis) and Applied Statistics (with special interest in Engineering and Health). Currently is also a collaborating member of the Smart Cities Research Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and in the Center for Innovation and Research in Business Sciences and Information Systems of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal. Regularly publishes papers in international scientific journals and has made several presentations in national and international meetings of Statistics, namely as Plenary Speaker. He was editor of some (inter)national journals, such as “Advances in Computational Data Analysis”, special issue of the Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS), Taylor & Francis. He was a member of the Board of CLAD (Portuguese Association for Classification and Data Analysis) for six years and has participated in several national and international meetings on Mathematics and Statistics as a member of Scientific and Organizing Committees. In particular, he was the Local Chair at the IPT of some International Conferences and he is the Chair of the annual Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM).