Diogo C. Ribeiro was born in Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal in 1988. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in December 2011 at Universidade de Aveiro. He is now a PhD student in the same university, since September 2012.
Mr. Ribeiro has as main interest software-defined radio measurement and nonlinear mixed-signal characterization. In 2012, he was recognized with the Best Student Paper Award 2012 at the 6.º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI.
Alírio Boaventura, Alírio Boaventura was born in Cabo Verde in 1985. He received the master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering in July 2009 from University of Aveiro – Portugal. From August 2008 to January 2010 he worked at Acronym – Informação e Tecnologia Lda – Portugal where he got involved with several R&D projects including industrial design and development of RFID systems and WSN integration. Currently he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações – Universidade de Aveiro under the FCT project TACCS. His main research interests include Software Defined Radio, RFID, non-linear modeling and CAD.
Ricardo Fernandes was born in Aveiro, Portugal, in 1987. He is a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Aveiro, and is currently pursuing a PhD degree in electrical engineering, at the Universidade de Aveiro. He holds a MSc degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the same university, obtained in 2010. In 2006/07 and 2007/08 he was awarded with merit scholarships for exceptional academic performances. He was also the winner of the 2011 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge, under the MSc category. His main research interests include wireless power transmission, energy harvesting, and wireless passive sensor networks.
Norberto Barroca received his Licenciado degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco in 2007 and his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Beira Interior in 2009. He is a research assistant at Instituto de Telecomunicações, where is pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. He made part of the project “Smart Clothing for Health Monitoring and Sport Applications”. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, RF energy harvesting and cross-layer design. He is a member of Ordem dos Engenheiros (IAENG).
