CARLOS SENA CAIRES (PhD), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Saint Joseph, Macao SAR, China

Born in Funchal in 1971, Professor Carlos Sena Caires is a renowned academic and digital artist. He received his bachelor’s degree in Design from the University of Madeira in Portugal in 1994, followed by a Master’s degree in Digital Arts from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2001, and a doctorate in Aesthetics, Sciences, and Technology of the Arts from the University of Paris 8 in France in 2010. Prof. Sena Caires has been teaching at the Catholic University of Portugal since 1999 and became an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts in 2009. He has also served as the Coordinator of the Master of Sound and Image and the Post-graduate degree in Digital Design since 2011. From 2010 to 2013, he was the chief editor of the CITAR Journal, the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. As a senior researcher, he also served as the Digital Creativity Research Group Coordinator at the CITAR Research Centre from 2010 to 2016.

Currently, Prof. Sena Caires is an Associate Professor in Design and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph in Macao, China.

His research interests focus on Digital Design, Interactive Arts, and New Media Design. He has produced numerous artistic projects and performed worldwide, including in Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil, Canada, and China. His creative art projects revolve around interactive-video installations, cinema, and digital art/video art installations.