José Alberto was born in Coimbra, Portugal. In 2011, he obtained his MSc Degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy branch at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2017, he received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, during which time he was a visiting scholar at CIRCE - Research Center for Energy Resources and Consumption in Zaragoza, Spain. Afterwards, he became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Systems and Robotics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and after an Invited Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal and Invited Assistant at the ISEC - Coimbra Institute of Engineering. He his currently an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona. His research interests include Wireless Power Transfer, Resonator Arrays, Inductive Charging, Linear Motors and Actuators.
Júlio Alves (Lisbon, 1971) is a director whose work consists of 18 films divided between the fiction, documentary and experimental genres. His most prominent recent work includes Diálogo de Sombras [Dialogue of Shadows] (2021), Arte de Morrer Longe [The Art of Dying Faraway] (2020), Chantal + Pedro (2020) and Sacavém (2019). All of his films have had national and international premieres. He has also directed advertising films in different European markets. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences and an MA in Film Studies, and lectures at Universidade Lusófona on the BA courses on Film and Media Arts, Communication Sciences and Photography and the MA programme on Film Studies. He is also a member of the Centre of Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT).
