RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

  • R&D and Other Projects
    • “TailorPhy – Smart Sensors and Tailored Environments for Physiotherapy”, FCT 2016-2019;
    • “EHR-Physio – Electronic Health Records: Needs, Requirements, and Barriers of Adoption in Physiotherapy”, FCT, 2013-2015;
    • “ENVIAS – Assessment of the Contribution of Environmental Factors to the Prevalence and Exacerbation of Asthma in School Children”, PTDC/AAG-MAA/4609/2012, FCT, 2012;
    • “Compo-ball”, European Union, FP7, 2011-2013;
    • “EHR-Wheel – Electronic Health Records for Wheelchairs Users”, RIPD/APD/109639/2009, FCT, 2010-2012;
    • “Heavy Metals Sensors for in-situ, Online Water Quality Monitoring System”, FCT, 2010;
    • “Home telecare”, PT Inovação, 2010;
    • “Blood Pressure Measurement”, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement, TC-25 Committee;
    • “SMARTCOL – Modelação e Controlo Inteligente de Processos em Coluna Utilizando Sistemas Distribuídos de Sensores e Actuadores – Caso de Estudo: Extracção Líquido-Líquido”. (Modelling and Smart Control of Column Processes Using Sensors and Actuators Distributed Systems – Case Study: Liquid-Liquid Extraction);
    • “SSNet-MEMS – Redes de Sensores Inteligentes para Sistemas Móveis de Monitorização Ambiental” (Smart Sensors Networks for Mobile Environmental Monitoring Systems);
    • “SmartCare – Ambientes Inteligentes Baseados em Sensores Distribuídos Não-obstrutivos para Cuidados de Saúde” (Smart Environments Based on Non-obstrutive Distributed Sensors for Healthcare);
    • “StresAlc – Reactividade ao Stress, Stress Diário e o Consumo de Álcool nos Jovens” (Reactivity to Stress, Daily Stress and Alcohol Consumption in Youngsters);
    • “Corredor de Bus Intermitente (CBI)” (Intermittent Bus Lane);
    • “STRUCTMONIT- Monitorização e Modelação de Estruturas de Engenharia Civil Utilizando Sensores Ópticos de Redes de Bragg” (Monitoring and Modelling of Civil Engineering Structures using Bragg Gratings);
    • Ciencia Viva CV-1572-2006 “GOA – Listening Dolphins and Measuring the Water Quality Where They Live”, 2006-2008;
    • National Network for Brain Imaging, Lisbon Consortium;
    • “SMARDO – Smart System for Monitoring of Wild Dolphin – Anthropogenic Factors Interactions”, IT, 2005-2008;
    • “TIM – Magnetic Induction Tomography- Development of the instrumentation and measuring methods for biomedical applications”, POSI/EEA-ESE/60397/2004, FCT, 2005-2008;
    • “Disseminação horária pelo território nacional (continente, Madeira e Açores)” (Time dissemination in Portugal), IPQ, 2004;
    • “ESPECTRO – Monitorização e controlo do espectro – Integração de infra-estruturas” (Monitoring and control of the spectrum – Infrastructures’ integration), ANACOM, 2002-2011;
    • “Actualização e Extensão das Capacidades de Medição do Grupo de Instrumentação e Medidas do Instituto de Telecomunicações – Lisboa” (Actualization and Extension of the Measuring Capabilities of the Institute of Telecomunications – Lisbon – Instrumentation and Measurements Group, Conc-REEQ/1118/2001, FCT, 2002;
    • “AQA – Monitorização Global com Sensores Inteligentes para Avaliação da Qualidade do Ambiente” (Global Monitoring with Smart Sensors for Environment Quality Evaluation), PNAT/1999/EEI/15052, FCT, 2001-2005;
    • “Metrological Characterisation of Analog-to-Digital Converters Based Instruments, “MECADIN””. Submitted in 1999 to the EC GROWTH program, 5th Framework Programme;
    • “EUropean Project for ADC-based devices Standardization (EUPAS)”, 1998-2009;
    • “Remote Monitoring and Control of Industrial Environments”, submitted in July 1998 to NATO Science for Peace Program;
    • Services to Laboratório de Metrologia e Ensaios do CET (LMECET), Portugal Telecom (PT), SA, July 1998 to January 1999;
    • “Health Emergency Management and Coordination through Telemetric Operational Resources (HECTOR), Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM), July 1997 to December 1998;
    • SPRINT RA 083, “Technical Assistance to Industry to Minimize Electrostatic Problems”, 1990-1993;
    • “Cálculo do Campo Electromagnético em Estruturas e Dispositivos das Telecomunicações e da Energia” (Determination of the Electromagnetic Field in Telecomunications and Energy Structures), Program CIENCIA, Subprogram III, Medida M -Ciências Exactas e da Engenharia, contract nº0013/M/90, 1990;
    • Between 1988 and 1994, Electromagnetismo Aplicado, Centro de Electrotecnia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa:
    • “Fenómenos de Histerese Magnética” (Magnetic Hysteresis Phenomena);
    • “Aplicações da Óptica em Electrotecnia” (Applications of Optics to Electrotechnics);
    • “Métodos Numéricos Aplicados ao Cálculo do Campo Electromagnético” (Application of Numerical Methods to Electromagnetic Fields Evaluation).
    • Between December 1994 and October 1998, Centro de Electrotecnia Teórica e Medidas Eléctricas, Instituto Superior Técnico:

Linha 1 – Electromagnetismo Aplicado (Applied Electromagnetism)

  • Projecto 1B – “Aplicações da Óptica em Electrotecnia”; (Applications of Optics to Electrotechnics)
  • Projecto 1C – “Fenómenos de Histerese Magnética” (Magnetic Hysteresis Phenomena).

Linha 3 – Sistemas de Medida (Measuring Systems)

  • Projecto 3A – “Métodos de Medida” (Methods of Measurement);
  • Projecto 3B – “Automatização de Procedimentos de Medida” (Automation of Measurement Procedures);
  • Projecto 3C – “Instrumentação Electrónica” (Electronic Instrumentation).
  • Participation in Scientific Research Institutions
    • Instituto de Telecomunicações – Grupo de Instrumentação e Medidas – since October 1997. Founder of Grupo de Instrumentação e Medidas, Senior Researcher, Group Leader and until 2020, Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies Scientific Area Coordinator;
    • Instituto de Energia – INTERG, researcher and project leader from 1990 to 1999;
    • Centro de Electrotecnia Teórica e Medidas Eléctricas do Instituto Superior Técnico, researcher, project leader and collaborator since 1994 until October 2000;
    • Centro de Electrotecnia da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica, researcher and project leader, since 1976 until its extinction.

 

  • Participation in International Congresses and Scientific Meetings
  • The 12th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2021), March 2021, Bucharest, Romania;
  • The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2019), March 2019, Bucharest, Romania;
  • XXII IMEKO World Congress, September 2018, Belfast, Great Britain;
  • 22nd IMEKO TC4 Symposium and 20th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, September 2017, Iaşi, Romania;
  • 13th International Conference on Healthcare and Life Science Research (ICHLSR), 26-27 May 2017, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • IEEE Mexican Humanitarian Technology Conference 2017, March 2017, Puebla, Mexico;
  • World Congress on Engineering and Applications – 2016 (WCEA – 2016), December, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand;
  • Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technology and Applications (IST’16), September 2016, Jaipur, India;
  • The 6th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering (ACME2016), June 2016, Iasi, Romania;
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2016, Taipei, Taiwan;
  • 2014 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium, Funchal, Madeira Island, September 2014;
  • 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications – MeMeA, June 2014, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • IMEKO Symposium on Temperature and Thermal Measurements in Industry and Science (TEMPMEKO 2013), October 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal;
  • IMEKO 17th TC4 and 3rd TC19 Symposium, Kosice, Slovakia, September 2010;
  • IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Vina del Mar, Chile, March 2010;
  • XIX IMEKO World Congress, September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • IMEKO 2nd TC 19 Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, September 2008;
  • IMEKO 20th TC3 & 3rd TC16 & 1st TC22 International Conference, Mérida, México, November 2007;
  • 2ª Conferência Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Metrologia, Funchal, Madeira, October 2007;
  • IMEKO TC4-TC19 Symposium, Iasi, Romania, September 2007;
  • IMEKO TC18, The 3rd International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions (ISHF 2007), June 2007, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Conftele 2007, Peniche, Portugal, May 2007;
  • IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, (ICIT 2006), December 2006, Mumbai, India;
  • The 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors, IEEE Sensors 2006, October 2006, Daegu, South Korea;
  • AMSE (Association for the Advancement of Modelling and Simulation Techniques in Enterprises) International Conference on Model and Simulation: Models and Simulation in Economy and Administration, September 2006, Bahia Blanca, Argentina;
  • IMEKO World Congress, September 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
  • IMEKO TC1 and TC7 Symposium on Metrology and Measurement Applications in the Era of Internet Working, September 2005, Ilmenau, Germany;
  • 14th TC4 Symposium of IMEKO, September 2005, Gdynia, Poland;
  • VII Conference on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology, June 2005, Costa da Caparica, Portugal;
  • Conftele 2005, April 2005, Tomar, Portugal;
  • IMEKO TC-4 Symposium on Measurements for Research and Industrial Applications and 9th Workshop on ADC Modeling and Testing, Athens, Greece, September 2004;
  • IEEE Third International Conference on Signals, Systems, Devices, March 2004, Sousse, Tunisia;
  • XVII IMEKO World Congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2003;
  • The First IEEE International Conference on Sensors, IEEE Sensors 2002, June 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA;
  • Fifth International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments, November 2001, Guilin, Popular Republic of China;
  • 6º Seminário Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentacion (SAAEI2001), September 2001, Matanzas, Cuba;
  • 11th International Symposium on Trends in Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation and the 6th Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, IMEKO TC-4, September 2001, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • METROLOGIA 2000, December 2000, S. Paulo, Brazil;
  • IEEE Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurement (CPEM 2000), May 2000, Sidney, Australia;
  • International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE’99), November 1999, Iasi, Romania;
  • Conftele’99, April 1999, Sesimbra, Portugal;
  • 5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’98), September 1998, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • IEEE MELECON’98, May 1998, Tel-Aviv, Israel;
  • XIV IMEKO World Congress, June 1997, Tampere, Finland;
  • IEEE IMTC/97, May 1997, Ottawa, Canada;
  • IEEE AFRICON’96, September 1996, Stellenbosch, South Africa;
  • IMEKO TC-4, 7th International Symposium on Modern Electrical and Magnetic Measurement, September 1995, Prague, Czech Republic;
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 1994, Hamamatsu, Japan;
  • IEEE MELECON´94, April, 1994, Antalya, Turkey;
  • IEEE AFRICON’92, September 1992, Swaziland;
  • CIGRE WG33 Meeting, September 1990, Estoril, Portugal, September;
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC/86), March 1986, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

 

  • Organization of Congresses and Scientific Meetings

 

International

  • Scientific Committee Member, 20th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices 2023, February 2023, Mahdia, Tunisia;
  • Steering Committee Member, 7th International conference on Intelligent Technologies (ICIT – 2022), December 2022, Jakarta, Indonesia;
  • Scientific Committee Member, Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13-TC18 Symposium 2022: “Cutting-edge measurement science for the future”, August 31st – September 1st, Porto, Portugal;
  • Co-chair and International Program Committee Member, 6th World Congress on Engineering and Applications (WCEA – 2021), December 2021, Singapore;
  • International Steering Committee Member, The 12th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2021), March 2021, Bucharest, Romania;
  • International Program Committee Member, IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13-TC18 Symposium, July 2020, Warsaw, Poland;
  • International Programme Committee Member, 4th World Congress on Engineering and Applications (WCEA – 2019), December 2019, Bali, Indonesia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’19), December 2019, Trivandrum, Kerala, India;
  • Technical Program Co-Chair and Technical Committee Member, 2nd International Symposium on Sensors and Instrumentation in Internet of Things Era (ISSI), August 2019, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Committee, IMEKO 18th International Flow Measurement Conference (Flomeko2019), June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • International Steering Committee Member, The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2019), March 2019, Bucharest, Romania;
  • International Program Committee Member, 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea, October 2018, Bari, Italy;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI’18), September 2018, Shanghai, China;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’18), September 2018, Bangalore, India;
  • International Program Committee Member, The 2018 IEEE International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2018), July 2018, Thessaloniki,
  • Greece;
  • International Program Committee Member, 1st ASRES International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Optimization (MAO – 2018), July 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Smart Cities Symposium (SCS’18), April 2018, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain;
  • International Program Committee Member, 22nd IMEKO TC4 Symposium and 20th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, September 2017, Iaşi, Romania;
  • Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI’17), September 2017, Karnataka, India;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, Third International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’17), September 2017, Karnataka, India;
  • International Advisory Committee and International Program Committee Member, IMEKO TC19 Symposium on Environmental Instrumentation and Measurements (EnvImeko), August 2017, Aguascalientes, Mexico;
  • International Program Committee Member, 2017 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium: “Measurement Science Challenges in Natural and Social Sciences”, July/August 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2017 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2017, Torino, Italy;
  • International Steering Committee Member, The 10th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2017), March 2017, Bucharest, Romania;
  • International Programme Committee Member, World Congress on Engineering and Applications – 2016 (WCEA – 2016), December, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, The Second International Symposium on Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (SET-CAS’16), September 2016, Jaipur, India;
  • Program Committee Member, 2016 International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2016), August 2016, Sinaia, Romania;
  • Honorary Committee Member, 2016 The 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2016), June 2016, Iasi, Romania;
  • Program Committee Member, 2015 International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2015), September 2015, Madrid, Spain;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (SET-CAS’15), August 2015, Kerala, India;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2015 International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA2015), May 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2015 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2015, Pisa, Italy;
  • International Steering Committee Member, IEEE “Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering” – ATEE 2015, May 2015, Bucharest, Romania;
  • International Steering Committee Member, The 9th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2015), March 2015, Bucharest, Romania;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (IEEE SPICES 2015), February 2015, Kozhikode, India;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurements and Applications – ICSIMA, November 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  • International Programme Committee Member, 2014 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium, September 2014, Madeira, Portugal;
  • Scientific Committee Member, The 6th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering (ACME 2014), June 2014, Iasi, Romania;
  • Co-chair, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications – MeMeA, June 2014, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Program Committee Member, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (IEEE INISTA 2014), June 2014, Arberobello, Italy;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2014 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2014, Montevideo, Uruguay;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’14), February 2014, Castelldefels-Barcelona, Spain;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications, November 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  • National Committee, IMEKO Symposium on Temperature and Thermal Measurements in Industry and Science (TEMPMEKO 2013), October 2013, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environment for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2013), July 2013, Milan, Italy;
  • General Co-chair, 4th IMEKO TC19 Symposium on Environmental Instrumentation and Measurements “Protecting Environment, Climate Changes and Pollution Control”, June 2013, Lecce, Italy;
  • International Steering Committee Member, The 8th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2013), May 2013, Bucharest;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2013 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2013, The Depot, Minneapolis, MN, USA;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’13), March 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia;
  • Program Committee Member, 2012 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (IEEE EPE2012), October 2012, Iasi, Romania;
  • International Programme Committee Member, XX IMEKO World Congress, September 2012, Busan, Republic of Korea;
  • Scientific Committee Member, The 5th International Conference on Advanced Concepts on Mechanical Engineering, June 2012, Iasi, Romania;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2012, Graz, Austria;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’12), March 2012, Chemnitz, Germany;
  • Organising Committee, Joint IMEKO TC11 TC19 TC20 International Symposia Metrological Infrastructure Environmental and Energy Measurements, International Symposium of Energy Agencies of Mediterranean Countries, Mediterranean Industry of the Sun, June 2011, Dubrovnik Riviera, Cavtat, Croatia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2011, Binjang, Hangzhou, China;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 8th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’11), March 2011, Sousse, Tunisia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, VECIMS 2010, September 2010, Taranto, Italy;
  • International Programme Committee Member, 17th Symposium IMEKO TC 4 – Measurement of Electrical Quantities, 15th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, 3rd Symposium IMEKO TC 19 – Environmental Measurements, “Instrumentation for the Information and Communication Technology Era”, September 2010, Kosice, Slovakia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 7th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’10), June 2010, Amman, Jordan;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2010 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2010, Austin, Texas, USA;
  • XIX IMEKO World Congress General Chairman, September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2009, Singapore;
  • Program Committee Member, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, March-April 2009, Nashville, TN, USA;
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE 6th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, March 2009, Djerba, Tunisia;
  • International Conference on Metrology of Environmental, Food and Nutritional Measurements MEFNM 2008 Co-Chairman, September 2008, Budapest, Hungary;
  • International Program Committee Member, TC1-TC7 IMEKO Joint Symposium on “Man, Science & Measurement”, September 2008, Annecy, France;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2008, Victoria, Canada;
  • International Program Committee Member, First International Symposium on Environmental Testing Engineering (ETE’ 2007), November 2007, Brussels, Belgium;
  • International Programme Committee Chairman, 1st IMEKO TC19 Symposium, September 2007, Iasi, Romania;
  • Program Committee Member, IEEE Fourth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’07), March 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensors 2006, October 2006, Daegu, South Korea;
  • International Programme Committee Member, IMEKO XVIII World Congress Metrology, Metrology for a Sustainable Development, September 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensors 2005, October/November 2005, Irvine, California, USA;
  • International Program Committee Member, IMEKO TC1 and TC7 Symposium on Metrology and Measurement Applications in the Era of Internet Working, September 2005, Ilmenau, Germany;
  • International Program Committee Member, VII Conference on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology, AMCTM 2005, June 2005, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensors 2004, October 2004, Wien, Austria;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensors 2003, October 2003, Toronto, Canada;
  • Technical Programme Committee Member, The Eurosensors XVII Conference, September 2003, Guimarães, Portugal;
  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensors 2002, June 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA;
  • National Organizing Committee Member, 11th International Symposium on Trends in Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation and the 6th Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, IMEKO TC-4, September 2001, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Special Session WP6 – ADC Testing, International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS´98) Organizer (with Prof. António Cruz Serra), September 1998, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Committee Member, 9th EAEEIE International Conference on Education in Electrical and Information Engineering -Enhancement of Education in Electrical and Information Engineering Through Industry Co-Operation and Research, May 1998, Lisbon, Portugal.

National or Mainly Regional

  • Organizing Commission Member, 7º Encontro Nacional da SPMET, Medições para os Transportes, Lisbon, November 2017;
  • Organizing Commission Member, CONFMET2016, November 2016, Évora, Portugal;
  • Technical Committee Member, 10ª Conferência de Telecomunicações (Conftele 2015), May 2015, Aveiro, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 6º Encontro Nacional da SPMET, Luz, Visão e IMAGEM – Medição e Inovação, Lisbon, March 2015;
  • Organizing Commission Member, CONFMET2014, June 2014, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Technical Committee Member, 9ª Conferência de Telecomunicações (Conftele 2013), May 2013, Castelo Branco, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 5º Encontro Nacional da SPMET, Medir para a Segurança, November 2012, Coimbra, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 4º Encontro Nacional da SPMET, Metrologia Suporte da Competitividade na Indústria, Oeiras, November 2011;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 3ª Conferência Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Metrologia CONFMET2010, November 2010, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 3º Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Metrologia, October 2008, Porto, Portugal;
  • Scientific Commission Member, Encontro Nacional sobre Instrumentação Científica e Metrologia Aplicadas à Engenharia Civil, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, November 2007, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 2ª Conferência Nacional Metrologia e Inovação, October 2007, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal;
  • Technical Committee Member, 6ª Conferência de Telecomunicações (Conftele 2007), May 2007, Peniche, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 2º Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Metrologia, November 2006, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, 1º Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Metrologia, November 2004, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Scientific Commission Member, Conferência Científica Tecnologia de Engenharia (CCTE 2002), May 2002, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • Organizing Commission Member, Congresso Nacional da Qualidade 2000, June 2000, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • International Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE’99), November 1999, Iasi, Romania;
  • Research/Project Evaluation

Editorial Boards

  • Special issue “Smart Wearable Sensors and Systems for Healthcare Monitoring”, Sensors, MDPI AG, Switzerland, 2021. Pedro Silva Girão, Octavian Postolache (Editors);
  • Metrology, (ISSN xxxx-3792), MDPI, Switzerland, since 2020;
  • Sensor Networks, Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220), MDPI, Switzerland, since 2019;
  • Special issue “Advanced Sensing Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Biomedical Applications”, Sensors, MDPI AG, Switzerland, 2019. Pedro Silva Girão, Octavian Postolache, Sergio Rapuano (Editors);
  • Special issue “Assistive Devices and Sensors”, Sensors, MDPI AG, Switzerland, 2019. Pedro Silva Girão, Octavian Postolache, Edward Sazonov (Editors);
  • IEEE I&M Video Tutorials Associate Editor, 2019;
  • Special issue “Tactile Sensors and Applications”, Sensors, MDPI AG, Switzerland, 2018. Pedro Silva Girão, Pedro Pinto Ramos, Perla Maiolino (Editors);
  • IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Associate Editor, 2018-2020;
  • Special issue “Intelligent Sensing Technologies for Nondestructive Evaluation”, Sensors, MDPI AG, Switzerland, 2017. Seunghee Park, Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, Octavian Postolache, Pedro Silva Girão (Editors);
  • International Journal of Electronics, Communications, and Measurement Engineering (IJECME), former International Journal on Measurement Technologies and Instrumentation Engineering (IJMTIE), IRMA International, Associate Editor, since 2011;
  • Buletinul Institutului Politehnic din Iasi (Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi), since 2010;
  • International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), ISSN: 0974-696X, Serials Publications, India, since January 2009;
  • Sensors & Transducers Journal and Magazine, since July 2007;
  • Measurement, Elsevier, from November 2006 to 2017;
  • Transactions on Systems, Signals and Devices (TSSD), SHAKER-VERLAG (ISSN 1861-5252, Germany), November 2005;

Reviewer – Publications

  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, since January 2018;
  • Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, since January 2018;
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A, since January 2018;
  • IRBM – Innovation and Research in BioMedical Engineering, Elsevier, since 2017;
  • Early Human Development, Elsevier, since 2017;
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Elsevier, since 2016;
  • Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, since 2016;
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, AIP, since 2016;
  • Scientific Research and Essays, Academic Journals, since 2016;
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier, since 2016;
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier, since September 2015;
  • Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, IOP Press, since January 2015;
  • Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical, Elsevier, since November 2014;
  • Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE C: Computers & Electronics, since October 2014;
  • Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India), Series B, Springer, since May 2014;
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, since April 2014;
  • Machines, ISSN 2075-1702, MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland, since November 2013;
  • Journal of Environmental Informatics, ISSN 1726-2135, International Society for Environmental Information Sciences, since April 2013;
  • Instrumentation Science & Technology (Taylor & Francis), 1073-9149 (Print), 1525-6030 (Online), since December 2012;
  • Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9), MDPI Publishing, Basel, Switzerland, since September 2012;
  • Herald Journal of Environmental and Health Science, since July 2012;
  • IEEE Sensors Journal, since May 2012;
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters, since May 2012;
  • Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, since May 2012;
  • Optics and Laser Technology, Elsevier, since June 2010;
  • International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), ISSN: 2279-0764, Serials Publications, India, since January 2009;
  • Sensors and Actuators, B, Elsevier, since 2008;
  • Sensors & Transducers Journal, ISSN: 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479 since July 2006;
  • Measurement, Elsevier, since November 2005;
  • Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology VII, Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2005;
  • IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, since 1997;
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, since 1997;
  • Caderno do CEFAT, 1996-2000.

Reviewer – Conferences

  • The 12th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2021), March 2021, Bucharest, Romania;
  • 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’19), December, 2019, Trivandrum, Kerala, India;
  • The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2019), March 2019, Bucharest, Romania;
  • International Conference on Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI’18), September 2018, Shanghai, China;
  • XXII IMEKO World Congress, September 2018, Belfast, Great Britain;
  • Smart Cities Symposium (SCS’18), April 2018, University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain;
  • 2017 Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium: “Measurement Science Challenges in Natural and Social Sciences”, July/August 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
  • 2017 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2017, Torino, Italy;
  • The 10th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE 2017), March 2017, Bucharest, Romania;
  • 2016 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE), October 20, 2016, Iasi, Romania;
  • International Symposium on Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (SET-CAS’16), September 2016, Jaipur, India;
  • Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA’16), September 21‐24, 2016, Jaipur, India;
  • 21st IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 19th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC), September 2016, Budapest, Hungary;
  • 2016 International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA´16), August 2016, Sinaia, Romania;
  • 2016 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2016, Taipei, Taiwan;
  • IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications – MeMeA, May 2016, Benevento, Italy; |
  • International Symposium on Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (SET-CAS’15), August 2015, Kerala, India;
  • 2015 International Conference on Smart Sensors and Application (ICSSA2015), May 2015, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia;
  • The 9th International Symposium on Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering (ATEE), May 2015, Bucharest, Romania;
  • 2015 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2015, Pisa, Italy;
  • IEEE SPICES 2015, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems, February 2015, Kerala, India;
  • 2014 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2014, Montevideo, Uruguay;
  • 11h International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’14), February 2014, Casteldefells, Spain;
  • 2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA 2013), November 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
  • 2013 International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS 2013), 25-27 September, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany;
  • 19th IMEKO TC-4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities, 17th TC-4 Workshop IWADC on ADC and DAC Modeling and Testing, Barcelona, Spain, 18-19, July 2013;
  • 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environment for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2013), July 2013, Milan, Italy;
  • 2013 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2013, Minneapolis, USA;
  • XX IMEKO World Congress, September 2012, Busan, Republic of Korea;
  • 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2012, Graz, Austria;
  • 9th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’12), March 2012, Chemnitz, Germany;
  • 2011 IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC, May 2011, Binjang, Hangzhou, China;
  • 8th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD’11), March 2011, Sousse, Tunisia;
  • 17th Symposium IMEKO TC 4 – Measurement of Electrical Quantities, 15th International Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, 3rd Symposium IMEKO TC 19 – Environmental Measurements, “Instrumentation for the Information and Communication Technology Era”, Kosice, Slovakia, September 8 – 10, 2010;
  • 2010 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2010, Austin, Texas, USA;
  • XIX IMEKO World Congress, September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • 2009 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2009, Singapore;
  • 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Virtual Environments, March-April 2009, Nashville, TN, USA;
  • International Conference on Metrology of Environmental, Food and Nutritional Measurements MEFNM 2008, September 2008, Budapest, Hungary;
  • 2008 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, May 2008, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada;
  • 1st IMEKO TC19 Symposium, Iasi, Romania, September 2007;
  • Conftele 2007, May 2007, Peniche, Portugal;
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference 2007, May 2007, Warsaw, Poland;
  • IEEE Sensors 2006, October 2006, Daegu, South Korea;
  • IMEKO XVIII World Congress, September 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
  • IEEE Sensors 2005, October/November 2005, Irvine, CA, USA;
  • 14th TC4 Symposium of IMEKO, September 2005, Gdynia, Poland;
  • IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference 2005, May 2005, Ottawa, Canada;
  • Conftele 2005, April 2005, Tomar, Portugal;
  • IEEE Sensors 2004, October 2004, Wien, Austria;
  • IEEE Sensors 2003, October 2003, Toronto, Canada;
  • Eurosensors XVII, September 2003, Guimarães, Portugal;
  • XVII IMEKO World Congress, June 2003, Dubrovnik, Croatia;
  • Conftele 2003, June 2003, Aveiro, Portugal;
  • The First IEEE International Conference on Sensors, IEEE Sensors 2002, June 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA;
  • Conferência Científica Tecnologia de Engenharia – O Saber do Passado, O Desafio do Futuro – (CCTE 2002), May 2002, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • 11th International Symposium on Trends in Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation and the 6th Workshop on ADC Modelling and Testing, IMEKO TC-4, September 2001, Lisbon, Portugal;
  • 5th International Workshop on “ADC Modelling and Testing”, IWADC’2000, September 2000, Wien, Austria;

Projects/Institutions

  • Project Peer Reviewer of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, 2020-2022;
  • Member of the Expert Panel: Engineering and Technology (Panel E), in the ‘Research Assessment Exercise in Latvia’, October-November 2020;
  • IT internal projects evaluation, 2019:
    • DeToxSTM – Denoise Toolbox for Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Images (FCT – 60 000€)
    • QuNet – Quantum Telecommunication Networks (IT – 58 400€)
    • RAPID – RF IC Design Automation (IT – 60 000€)
    • uFlexBatt – Batteryless energy supply system based on flexible organic photovoltaic cells (IT – 52 420€)
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), expert evaluator, 2016;
  • Expert for Horizon 2020 Advisory Groups, European Commission, 2013;
  • Evaluator, as an expert on Electrical Engineering, of the Strategic Project “Doctorate in Universities of Excellence – Research Assessment and Support for Scientific Publishing”, coordinated by The Romanian National University Research Council and by the Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding, Romania, September 2011;
  • European Commission External Expert for Evaluation and Assessment of Proposals and Projects in FP7, 2007 – 2013;
  • Agência de Inovação (AdI), SA, independent expert, since November 2003;
  • European Commission External Expert for Evaluation and Assessment of Proposals and Projects in FP5 RTD Programmes, 1998 – 2002;
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