Jorge Gonçalves is a Professor at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg and a Principal Research Associate at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

He received his Licenciatura (5-year S.B.) degree from the University of Porto, Portugal, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively.

He then held two postdoctoral positions, first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for seven months, and from 2001 to 2004 at the California Institute of Technology with the Control and Dynamical Systems Division.

At the Information Engineering Division of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge he was a Lecturer from 2004 until 2012, a Reader from 2012 until 2014, and from 2014 until 2019 he was a Principal Research Associate.

From 2005 until 2014 he was a Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

From June to December 2010 and January to September 2011 he was a visiting Professor at the University of Luxembourg and California Institute of Technology, respectively.

Since 2019 he is a Principal Research Associate at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, and since 2013 he is a Professor at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg.