Maria de Fatima Fonseca Domingues finished her Ph.D. degree in Physics Engineering, from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in December 2014.
After the PhD completion, Dr. Domingues was the recipient of National Post-doc grant from FCT (SFRH/BPD/101372/2014), in a joint collaboration between Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)-Portugal, and CSIC-UPM Centro de Automatica y Robotica (CAR), Madrid, Spain, where 1 year of exchange was foreseen. Since 2025, she is a research colaborator at Instituto de Telecomunicações and University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Dr. Domingues authored/co-authored +130 published works, including 3 books, 5 book-chapters multiple articles in high impact, peer reviewed journals and conferences. In 2024 Dr. Domingues was listed in the top 2% of the most-cited scientists according to Stanford University and Elsevier rankings.
Dr. Domingues has 15+ years’ research experience in the development of photonic based sensing solutions for biomedical and eHealth applications. She is also active in the supervision of undergraduate and graduate students in laboratory environment and projects development.
Dr. Domingues has an active cooperation in the preparation of project proposals at national and EU levels. She is the PI for the Khalifa University FSU Grant – POWER and co-PI of RIG 2024 project MoRehab. She was also the Co-PI of the international CELTIC NEXT (2019)-SAFE-HOME, focusing on the development of non-invasive solutions for the monitoring of elders and the IT work package coordinator in the project SENSECOR targeting the development of immunosensory integrated system for a fast and efficient detection of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. She has also participated in/coordinated smaller Internal IT projects focusing on the development of photonic based wearable solutions for physical rehabilitation (WeHOPE/REACT) and home monitoring of elders (NICE-HOME). She is also active in the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Doctoral Networks project proposals submission, having coordinated the full project proposal submission for the 2021 call, and contributed for proposals submitted in previous ITN calls. Additionally, she has been also a requested project reviewer for entities such as, Polish National Science Center; European Research Council (ERC), and Marie Sk艂odowska Curie Actions HORIZON MSCA DN and Saudi Arabian research councils.
Dr. Domingues is a member of the editorials of Journal of Sensors (Wiley), Alexandria Journal of Engineering (Elsevier), Frontiers in Sensors (Physical Sensors) and Sensors (MDPI) and the recurrent reviewer for different peer-reviewed Journals indexed in JCR, ISI and SJR, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal; Journal of Biomedical Optics; Photonics Technology Letters, Sensors and Actuators, IEEE Acess; IEEE Sensors. She is often recruited as TPC member in flagship conferences like IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE ICC.
She was/is a member of the Organizing Committee of several conferences such as Broadnets2018, IMOC2019, MeditCom022 and IEEE HealthCom 2022 and 2025, IEEE ENBENG 2023 and 2025, IEEE WF IoT 2023, 2024 and 2025 international conferences; she was/is also the Technical Chair of the workshop in IEEE ICC'2021 (WS9 [AgeWellSens]) and Track Chair at IEEE MetroInd4.0&IoT’22 Special Session [Smart Systems based on Fiber Optic sensors for Industry 4.0]. She is Track Chair for the IEEE ICC’24 Symposium on e-Health and lead Co-Chair for IoT and Sensor Networks Symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2025.
She is an IEEE Senior Member and IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Photonics Society and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) member, and an active and voting member in IEEE eHealth and Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks (IoT-AHSN) Technical Committees. Since January 2022, Dr. Domingues is serving as the secretary of the IEEE EMBS Portuguese Chapter.
