Diego Felipe Santos was born in Venezuela in 1987. He received the degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in 2010, the Master Degree Telecommunications and Energy Networks Engineering in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Automation and Instrumentation in July 2017, from the University of Madeira and with collaboration with the INESC TEC Porto, Portugal.

Currently, he is Assistant Researcher at the Research Node of IPFN at the University of Madeira and part-time Assistant Professor at the Faculty of the Exact Sciences and Engineering of the University of Madeira, Portugal.

His current research interests include modelling of gas discharges.