Education, Professional Service, Visiting Scholar

Education:

 Habilitation degree in Industrial Electronics (Agregado), July 2007, University of Minho.
 PhD in Electrical Engineering, May 1999, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands,
 Thesis: "Optical Microsystems in Silicon Based on a Fabry-Perot Resonance Cavity,"
 Thesis Advisor: Prof. J. H. Huijsing and Dr. R. F. Wolffenbuttel.
 PAPCC(equivalent to MSc. degree), July 1994, University of Minho.
 Thesis: "Intelligent Signal Processing for Load Cells,"
 Thesis Advisor: Prof. Carlos Couto.
 Physical Engineering, December 1990, University of Coimbra.
 

Professional service:

 
Feb. 1991 To July 1994
Assistant Lecturer, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
July 1994 To May 1999
Lecturer, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
May 1999 To September 2003
Auxiliary Professor, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
September 1999 To July 2001
Director of the Industrial Electronics Engineering Course.
 
September 2003 To Present
Associate Professor, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
September 2006 - January 2008
Director of the Biomedical Engineering Course
 
July 2007 To May 2009
Associate Professor with Habilition, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
May 2009 To Present
Full Professor, University of Minho, Dept. of Industrial Electronics.
 
January 2008 To Present
Director of the Dept. of Industrial Electronics.

Invited lectures:

Optical sensors lecture in the Smart Sensor Systems Course'98
organized by TUDelft and Europractice on 11-14 May 1998 in Delft, The Netherlands.

Visiting scholar:

June 1996 To October 1996
Professional training in micromachining and microelectronics fabrication at
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in the group of Prof. K. Najafi with relevance in microprobes
for neural applications