Mário Rui G. Leiria was born in Faro, Portugal, on August 6, 1978. He received the degree of “Licenciatura” in electrical and computers engineering, in 2001, from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal.

He is presently working towards the M. Sc. degree in electrical and computers engineering, telecommunications, at Instituto Superior Técnico, and his main present research interests include optical filtering, crosstalk and performance evaluation in DWDM systems.