Luis Madureira received his diploma degree in 2000 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the Engineering Faculty of the Porto University, Portugal. In 2005 he completed his master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he developed work in acoustic navigation systems for multiple underwater vehicles. From 2000 to 2008 he was part of the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory of the Porto University research group, where he developed functions related with development, deployment and evaluation of underwater vehicles and systems. Since 2008 is part of OceanScan-MST as founder and managing partner. He is responsible for handling the financial, legal and logistical aspects of the project.

Renato Campos received is master’s degree in informatics and computer engineering in 2020 from FEUP. He has been a software developer at OMST since 2021. His expertise is in the fields of embedded systems and underwater robotics. Renato is the main point of contact of OMST. His role will be to integrate the LAUV within the Aquamon platform, ensuring that robotic platforms can be used to autonomously collect water quality data.