Marco Da Silva studied electrical engineering at both the Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany as well as at the Federal University Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil. He earned his doctorate in engineering at the TUD in 2008. Between 2004 and 2009, he worked as a Research Associate at Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany. In 2010, he joined the UTFPR in Brazil, holding the positions as Assistant and from 2013 until 2022 as Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Between 2017 and 2022, he also served as Deputy Head of the Multiphase Flow Center (NUEM) at UTFPR. Professor Da Silva has been the Head of the Institute of Measurement Technology at the JKU since October 2022, conducting research and teaching classes at the Department of Mechatronics. His current research interests include sensing technology, sensor data processing, and instrumentation applied to industrial process monitoring. He has authored/co-authored over 200 scientific articles and conference papers and holds five patents. Prof. Da Silva is Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal and also serves on the Editorial Board of Measurement Science and Technology.