Nuno Nunes is a Full professor at Tecnico U. Lisbon and the President and founder of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI) the leading HCI and design research institute in Portugal. Nuno is the co-Director of the Carnegie Mellon International partnership and adjunct faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Nuno is a strong advocate of the role of human-centric design in participatory culture and sustainability. His research influenced how digital technologies (including sensors, ML/AI, interactive storytelling, and mixed reality) can contribute to engage and inspire digital citizens to act sustainably and connect to nature and the wider ecosystems. Nuno organized several key conferences of the ACM SIGCHI and published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of HCI, software, energy, sustainability, and service science. He was PI and co-PI of several research projects totaling more than 15M€ from European to nationally and industry-funded.