JISIS TEAM
Joana Catarina Mendes
Joana Catarina Mendes was born in Portugal in 1974. She received the undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1998, and finished her Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics in the same institution, in September 2006. Since November 2005 she is working as a researcher in the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation in the Mechanical Engineering Department, in the University of Aveiro. She is a Research Fellow of the Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Campinas – Brazil, and of the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya – Japan, and is a Principal Investigator of the Central Atlantic Association for Nanotechnology, In Mira – Portugal. Her main research interests include the use of thin diamond films for electrical and sensing applications. Dr. Mendes is the Principal Investigator of the national research project “Diamond-based surface acoustic wave devices: a reverse fabrication design”, reference PTDC/EEA-TEL/104004/2008 and the national coordinator of the international project “CarbonInspired - Transfer and cooperative network for the application of high added value materials based on carbon nanoparticles within the automobile and building sectors”, reference Ref. SOE2/P1/E281. Dr. Mendes is a regular reviewer of a number of scientific journals including Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Diamond and Related Materials and Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. She was a member of the organizing committee of the ANM 2008 and ANM 2010 – 2nd and 3rd International Conferences on Advanced Nano Materials. She was present in the Nanochallenge2006, the Final Phase of International Nanotechnology Business Plan Competition, in Padua, November 2006. Dr. Mendes is an author or co-author of approximately 25 papers of peer-reviewed scientific journals and has given more than 30 presentations at conferences worldwide. Dr. Mendes is co-author of the books “Surface engineered surgical tools and medical devices” and “Applications of carbon nanotubes in Bio- Nanotechnology”, both from Springer Publications.
Dinis Santos
Dinis Santos graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto (Portugal) in 1967. From 1967 to 1976 he was associated with Junta de Energia Nuclear (Portugal) and, for a period of 2 1/2 years, with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley, California), where he worked in the design of nuclear electronics. Since 1976 he is with the Electronics and Telecommunications Department at University of Aveiro, Portugal. He obtained is Ph.D. there in 1983 and is currently a full professor at University of Aveiro. He went back to Berkeley for several periods between 1991 and 1996, and then again in 2000 and 2001, working again in Physics Instrumentation, mostly in the design of integrated circuits, first for the Superconductor Super Collider and later for the Babar project. His main research interests lie in scientific instrumentation, integrated smart sensors and lately in remote detection and tracking systems.
Tiago Andrade
Tiago Andrade was born in 1986, in Coimbra, Portugal. He received his Master's degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engeneering, from University of Aveiro, in 2011. For his Master's Thesis, he explored a new approach, based on the Inverted GPS concept, for animal monitoration. Currently, he is a Grant Researcher for JISIS, where he works with SAW devices and studies techniques for its simulation and characterization. His main research interests are SAW devices, smart sensors, micro-controllers, wireless sensor networks and tracking/monitoring systems.
Debarati Mukherjee
Debarati Mukherjee was born in 1986, in Durgapur, India. She has received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Master’s degree in Nanoscience from University of Calcutta and Amity University, India in 2007 and 2009, respectively. For her Master’s thesis project, she worked at the Nanotechnology and Bioengineering Centre at the University of Ulster, UK, on the “PECVD deposition of functional DLC on PET for Gas Barrier analysis”. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Nanotechnology Research Division at TEMA, University of Aveiro where her main research interests are nano-crystalline diamond, diamond film deposition and HFCVD.