João Ferreira

Birth year 1956.

Academic degrees1990 – University of Porto, Engineering Faculty, Porto, Portugal – www.fe.up.ptCompleted the curricular part of the MSc degree in Telecommunications (1 year).1986 – University of Porto, Science Faculty, Porto, Portugal – www.fc.up.ptGraduated in Physics, branch of Applied Physics, Optics and Electronics (5 years).

Professional experience2007 – present - INESC Porto / INESC TEC – www.inesctec.ptOptical fiber sensors: electronic design, implementation and test; software development, system integration and data acquisition.2005 – 2007 - FiberSensing – Sistemas Integrados de Monitorização (Now HBM FiberSensing) – www.fibersensing.comDesign and test of front-end electronics for signal conditioning. Software development for sub-system and equipment testing and quality control.1986 – 2005 - INESC PortoOptical fiber communications, design, implementation and test: Tx/Rx, clock distribution and clock recovery.Wireless infrared communications: R&D and technology transfer activitiesOrganized and taught technical courses on optical communications and instrumentation electronics. Supervised or assisted the work of graduate and post-graduate students.

Other Professional Activities1987 – CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (Training internship)Study of Surface Mount Technology and implementation of front-end amplifier (6 months)2002 – Ciência Viva, Lisboa, PortugalNational fair to promote science and technology among high-school students (1 week)2004 – Hannover Messe, GermanyPresented fiber Bragg grating measurement system prototype, developed at INESC Porto (1 week)2005 – University of Oxford, UK (Courses attended)High-Speed Digital Design and Advanced High-Speed Signal Propagation courses (1 week)Teaching in Training Courses1992 – 1993 – FUNDETEC, Técnicos Especialistas em Electrónica e Telecomunicações1993 – 1994 – Fibras ÓpticasDevelopment of Courses for Computer Based Training1990 - IN#TEL#EC - Integrated Telecommunications Training for the European Community, COMETT 90/1/5390/Cc1993 – 1994 – EAC, Formação de Técnicos Especialistas em Optoelectrónica

Main areas of interestOptical communications, both fibre-based and wireless infrared.Phase-locked loop circuits, namely clock recovery and frequency multiplication.PCB interconnection technologies, for high-speed electronic circuits.Optical fibre sensors.Low-noise electronics.Signal conditioning.

Software skillsLabView (National Instruments) MatLab (Mathworks)OptSim (Artis Software, now sold by RSoft/Synopsys)SPICE (Berkeley University)Eagle (CadSoft)