Dr Barros is a Lecturer (Assist Prof) in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK. He received the PhD in Computer Science at the Waterford Institute of Technology in 2016, MSc degree in Computer Science at the Federal University of Campina Grande in 2012 and BTech degree in Telematics at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraiba in 2011.
He has over 60 research peer-reviewed scientific publications in top journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in the areas of molecular and unconventional communications, biomedical engineering, bionano science and 6G. Since 2020, he is a review editor for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal in the area of unconventional communications. He also served as guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications and Digital Communications Networks journals.
Dr Barros is awarded the European Commission's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) from 2019-2021, the Irish Research Council's (IRC) Government of Ireland Post-doc Fellow from 2016-2018 and the Enterprise Ireland's (EI) Commercialization Funding from 2018-2019, securing a total of ?667k as a young PI. More at http://drbarros.eu