Archive for PhD Students

Ricardo Correia

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Ricardo Correia was born in 1985 and he is from Viseu. In 2009, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro.

Worked one year as an automation and electrical engineer and three years as a researcher in embedded systems and signal processing.
Currently, he is a researcher at Institute of Telecommunications – University of Aveiro and his research interests include wireless power transfer, energy harvesting and wireless passive sensors for space applications. Mr. Correia is a student member of IEEE. He is also a reviewer for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.

Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering in Aveiro University. His main research interests include wireless power transfer, energy harvesting and wireless passive sensors for IoT and space applications.

Daniel Malafaia

Daniel Malafaia was born in 1989 and he is from Aveiro. In 2012, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro with a dissertation  entitled “Real Time Front-end for Cognitive Radio Inspired by the Human Cochlea”.

Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações and a Ph.D. student in MAP-tele Doctoral Program in Telecommunications. His main research interests include software defined radio, digital signal processing, spectrum sensing, signal detection and classification.

Luís Brás

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Luís Brás was born in 1985. He received the M. Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro in July 2009 and is currently a PhD student at the same university.
In October 2009, he received a research scholarship from the Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) which he used to continue his research on location systems (LS). Currently he has been working in Instituto de Telecomunicações of Aveiro where he got involved with projects related with indoor and outdoor LS.
His main research interests are related with low power LS, including development of nodes firmware, hardware integration, communication protocols and location algorithms. He also have been designing low cost antennas mainly LS and vehicular communications. Luis Brás is an IEEE Student Member and an invited reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

André Prata

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André Prata was born in 1990 and he is from Santa Comba Dão. In 2013, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro. His dissertation work, entitled “Sistema de Rádio Digital para White Spaces UHF”, was distinguished with first prize in the international contest “IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2013 Software Defined Radio and Digital Signal Processing Student Design Competition”.

Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações and a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at University of Aveiro. His main research interests include software defined radio, digital signal processing and cloud radio access network architectures.

Ricardo Gonçalves

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Ricardo Gonçalves was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1988.  He is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações in Aveiro and he’s currently pursuing the PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Aveiro.

He received the BSc and the MSc (Magna Cum Laude) on Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa in 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2010/2011 he was awarded with merit scholarship for exceptional academic performances. From 2010 to 2012, he worked at Dailywork I&D Lda. as a developer engineer in embedded electronic systems for vehicular location systems and healthcare platforms.

His main research interests include wireless power transfer systems, RFID and wireless passive sensor networks. His current focus is on the development of printed antennas and microwave circuits in non-conventional materials such as textiles, ceramics, plastic, paper and cork, for the former applications.