João Paulo Pereira do Carmo

João Paulo Carmo was born in 1970 at Maia, Portugal. He graduated in 1993 and received his MSc degree in 2002, both in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. In 2011 he also obtained the graduation recognition in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil. In 2007, he obtained the PhD degree in Industrial Electronics from the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. His PhD thesis was on RF transceivers for integration in microsystems to be used in wireless sensors network applications. Since 2008 up to 2013, he was a principal researcher at the CMEMS (Center MicroElectroMechanical Systems), University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. In 2021, he obtained the habilitation for Full Professor (Livre-Docência/Agregação) in the University of São Paulo (USP). Since 2021 he is Associate Professor. He is involved in the research on micro/nanofabrication technologies for mixed-mode/RF systems, solid state integrated sensors, microactuators and micro/nanodevices for use in wireless and biomedical applications. Doctor Carmo is also involved with the supervision of PhD students from the MIT Portugal program. He is co-author of the books entitled (1) "Introduction to silicon microtechnologies" and (2) "Introduction to medical instrumentation" (Both in Portuguese), published by LIDEL Editors (Lisbon, Portugal). He is also vicecoordinator of the Group of Metamaterials, Microwaves and Optics (GMeta) in the University of São Paulo. GMeta''s website: www.sel.eesc.usp.br/jcarmo/metamaterials/.