Joaquim Jorge is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, the School of Engineering of the Universidade de Lisboa, and Holds the UNESCO Chair on AI&Virtual Reality(VR), teaching Computer Graphics, VR and HCI. He has chaired or co-chaired the Scientific Program Committee of 16+ international conferences, namely IEEE/VR and AIxVR. A longtime practitioner of VR/AR, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Systems, he joined IEEE/CS in 1982 and the Eurographics Association (EG) in 1986. Having served in the EG Executive Committee 1997-2006, he coordinates the Graphics&Interaction Research Group at INESC-ID, a Research Institute Affiliated with the University, since 2000. Since January 2007, he is Editor-in-Chief of the Computers&Graphics Journal (Elsevier). He served on the Editorial Board of seven other venues, including Computer Graphics Forum(Blackwells) from 1999—2008, and Springer/Nature HCIS Book Series since 2020 and serves on the IEEE/CS Publications Board. He successfully supervised/co-supervised 17 doctoral theses and 70+ MSc dissertations. A (co-)author of 400+ peer-reviewed publications, including 164 international conference papers, four Springer/Nature books, and 87 journal articles, he has served in the international program committee of 220+ conferences. An IEEE/CS Distinguished Visitor and Contributor since 2021, he was a national delegate to IFIP’s Human-Computer Interaction Technical Committee(TC13) from 2001 to 2013. A member of ACM/SIGGRAPH 1989-present, he was Chairman of the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter from 2000-2008. The first Portuguese ACM Distinguished Speaker Program(DSP) since September 2015, he has given 27 keynote talks at international scientific events and 42+ guest lectures in academic contexts. He received the IFIP Silver Core (2014) and the IEEE Golden Core (2024) Awards. During 2015-2019, he was an elected ACM Europe Council Executive Committee member.
He was named Fellow of the Eurographics Association(2010), Distinguished ACM Member(2017), IEEE Fellow(2025) and was inducted to the IEEE VR Academy in 2025. He speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and French fluently.
