Hugo E. Hernández Figueroa

Hugo E. Hernández Figueroa received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1983. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the M.Sc. in informatics, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK, in 1992. After spending two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL, London, UK, he joined the UNICAMP, FEEC, as an Assistant Professor in 1995. He became Full Professor in 2005. He has been an Associate Editor (Nanophotonics) of the IEEE Photonics Journal since March 2011, and was an Associate Editor (Opto-Electronics/Integrated Optics) of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (January 2004 – December 2009). He is a Fellow of the OSA class 2011, was a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000, and also, the recipient of the Attilio Giarola’s Medal in 2013, for outstanding research achievements from the SBMO. He has acted as area coordinator of engineering at the Brazilian Agency FAPESP since 2014. Presently he is the Director of the National Institute of Science and Technology FOTONICOM. His main research topics are: integrated photonics, optical fibers, antennas, microwaves, and computational electromagnetics, applied to telecommunications and biosensing.

Lucas Heitzmann Gabrielli

Lucas H. Gabrielli joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP as Assistant Professor in 2013 after a postdoctoral position at the same institution. He completed his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 2012, his M.Sc. degree at UNICAMP in 2008, and he graduated Magna cum Laude in Electronics Engineering from ITA in 2006. His main research topics include advanced design of integrated optical devices for telecommunications, sensing and imaging. Prof. Lucas H. Gabrielli is also the Associate Director of CCS Nano, the micro- and nano-scale fabrication facility at UNICAMP.

Luciano Prado de Oliveira

Juliana de Novais Schianti

Juliana de Novais Schianti graduated in Physics at the Institute of Physics – USP. She received her masters degree in 2008, at the Polytechnic School (EP-USP) in the same university. In this period, she worked on a process for obtaining microfluidic devices on glass substrates. Afterwards, she earned her PhD degree in 2012 also at the Polytechnic School (EP-USP). In this time, she had the chance to work in partnership with the IPT, developing microfluidic devices in glass and ceramic substrates to synthetize micro and nanoparticles. During her doctoral studies, she also spent some time at the IMB-CNM, in Spain. In 2013, she still worked at IPT and in the year of 2014 she worked with the Physics Department at Harvard University. Her main interest topics are microfluidic devices for chemical processes, microfabrication techniques, surface materials properties, optical and chemical sensors.

Adriano da Silva Ferreira

Adriano da Silva Ferreira received the B.Sc. degree in information technology and the M.Sc. in electrical engineering from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Department of Communications, UNICAMP. His research interests include natural computing, electromagnetic simulators, and software engineering.

Alexandre Passos Freitas

Andrés Gil Molina

Andrés received his B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in 2010 and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Antioquia in 2014. He is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UNICAMP. His research interests include nonlinear optical effects in optical fibers and other waveguides, mainly nonlinear characterization methods, optical parametric amplification and wavelength conversion.

Claudio Mori Junior

Jhonattan Córdoba Ramirez

Received his B.Sc. in Software and Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Católica de Pereira, Colombia, in 2009. Received his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Area Telecommunications from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia in 2012. He is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Electrical Engineering School at University of Campinas, Brazil. His research interests include advanced optical communication devices, nonlinear optics, integrated photonics and bio-sensing (devices and applications).

Jorge Rufino Fernández Herrera

Ph.D. Candidate on the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP. He completed his M.Sc. at the same institution in 2015. His research topics include integrated optics for biosensings applications and coupling structures. He also has experience in radiopropagation models for TV signals.

José Angel Borda Hernández

José received his B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru and his M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He is currently a Ph.D. student in the same institution and his research topics includes optical communications and orbital angular momentum for communications and sensing applications.

Juan Pablo Pantoja Bastidas

Juan Pablo Pantoja Bastidas was born in Nariño, Colombia. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Cauca, Popayan, Colombia in 2012 and his M.Sc. degree in Electric and Computational Engineering at University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil 2016. Currently, he is doing his Ph.D. degree in Electric and Computational Engineering in State University of Campinas, Brazil. His research interests include Fiber Optical Communications, Radio Frequency and Microwaves, Antennas, and Computational Electromagnetism.

Juliana de Almeida Góes

Juliana de Almeida Góes received her B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA), France, in 2011; and her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, in 2012. She worked as an intern at Technicolor R&D, France, where she gathered experience with antennas and RF circuits. Later on, she took a position as product development engineer in the aeronautical industry, where she worked with aircraft communication, navigation and surveillance systems In 2016, she received her M.Eng. degree in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA). Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at FEEC/UNICAMP; and her research interests include synthetic aperture radar imaging and airborne radar systems.

Julián Leonel Pita Ruiz

Julián graduated from National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) in 2011 with a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista) in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics Group, where his research involves developing novel integrated photonic devices, including optical phased arrays, and coupling.

Laila Fabi Moreira

Laila F. Moreira received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Telecommunications from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUCCAMP) in 2013. She received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 2016. She is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at UNICAMP. Her research interests include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), airborne radar systems, RF circuit design and signal processing.

Luiz Ariovaldo Fabri Junior

Currently is a Ph.D. student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Unicamp, and received the M.Sc. in Technology and Innovation by the School of Technology of Unicamp (theme developed in the master's degree "The use of Arduino in the creation of kit of workshop of robotics of low cost for public schools"), specialist in Solidary Economy and Social Technology by the Institute of Geociências of Unicamp , is also a specialist in Computer Network Technologies by the Federal University of Lavras/UFLA, has Furukawa and Microsoft Certifications. Graduated in Computer Networks Administration from Centro Universitário Herminio Ometto/Uniararas.

Paloma E. da Silva Pellegrini

Paloma Pellegrini is about to complete her M.Sc. degree at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP. She received her B.Sc. degree in physics from the “Gleb Wataghin” Institute of Physics, also at UNICAMP in 2014. While an undergraduate, she acquired experience in working with special optical fibers and Bragg gratings. Currently, her main research topics include the design and characterization of new metamaterial structures in terahertz frequencies.

Valquíria Lima Bessa de Castro

Valquíria L. Bessa de Castro received her B.Sc. degree in Teleinformatics Engineering with emphasis in Telecommunications from Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Ceará, Brazil in 2015. She received her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil in 2017. She is now a Ph.D. student in the same university, where her research interests involves radar systems, low noise amplifiers and microwaves engineering using computational electromagnetics.

Yuri Hayashi Isayama

Yuri H. Isayama received his B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2011 from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at UNICAMP and, in 2014, he received his M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution. Currently, he is a Ph.D. Student in the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics Group (GEMAC) at FEEC/UNICAMP, where his research interests include integrated optics for communications and biosensing applications.

Arthur Zanatta da Costa

Arthur Zanatta da Costa received his basic education at São Bento School RJ, where his class obtained first place in the national exam (ENEM) in 2010. He attained the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP in 2016 with maximal honors. During this time, he developed research in theoretical computation and applied electromagnetic theory, depositing a patent on the latter subject. He is currently a M.Sc. student at the same school. His current interests are machine learning, data science, probabilistic programming and the dissemination of data driven approaches to do science.

Claudio Gurgel Pinheiro

Diogo de Azevêdo Motta

Diogo de Azevedo Motta received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from UNICAMP in 2014. He is a M.Sc. student in the School of Electrical and Computing Engineering also at UNICAMP. He worked as an intern in CPqD with characterization and design of silicon photonics chips for telecom applications. Since 2016 he has been working at BrPhotonics in the photonics integrated circuits division. He is interested in photonics applied to telecommunications in general.

Felício Harley Garcia de Castro

Felício received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology of Ceará (IFCE) in 2015. He is currently a M.Sc. student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His main areas of interest include antenna design, microwave engineering, signal processing, airborne radar systems and synthetic aperture radar imaging.

Francisco Teixeira Orlandini

Francisco T. Orlandini received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from UNICAMP in 2015. He is currently a M.Sc. student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering also at UNICAMP, and from 2015 to 2017 also worked as an engineering researcher at Simworx Engineering developing simulators for petroleum engineering. He is currently researching applications of the Finite Element Method in Computational Electromagnetics for waveguide analysis.

Gustavo Adolfo Palomino Marcelo

Leandro Andrade Couto Fonseca

Leandro received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from UFMG, Brazil, in 2016. Now he is pursuing his Masters Degree at Unicamp. During his undergraduate course he worked in several research projects at UFMG. As an intern he worked at ENACOM with R&D and at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles with EMC measurements. Also, he gathered experiences in microwave design working with the radar industry for a year. He is interested in computational electromagnetics, microwave theory/measurement/design, photonics, EMC, RFID and evolutionary optimization.

Paulo Eduardo Faria de Melo

Paulo E. F. Melo received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Unicamp in 2016. Currenly he is a M.Sc. student from Unicamp. He has two years of experience in electromagnetic simulation and layout for microwave and radiofrequency devices for radar systems. His main fields of reasearch are microwave and RF systems and devices, electrochemical biosensors, antenna sensor and flexible circuits.

Rafael Brito Sampaio

Rafael received his B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2015 from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at UNICAMP. He has gathered experience in electromagnetic simulation along the last couple of years. Currently, he is a M.Sc. student in the Applied and Computational Electromagnetics Group (GEMAC), where his research interests include RF devices design and measurements, such as antennas and amplifiers, and chipless RFID.

Ursula Fernanda Salazar Roggero

Ursula Salazar Roggero received her B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and Networks Engineering from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences in 2012 and is currently a M.Sc. student at Electrical Engineering School at University of Campinas, Brazil. Her research interests include electromagnetism applied to biomedicine, bio-sensing and rehabilitation engineering.

Pedro Luís A. Costa

Pedro started pursuing his B.Sc. degree at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas in 2015. His fields of interest are electronics and automation.

Claudia Milena Serpa Imbett

Claudia Milena Serpa Imbett received the B.Sc. degree in physical engineering from the National University of Colombia Medellin Campus, in 2003. She received the M.Sc. degree in Physics-Science, from the National University of Colombia Medellin Campus, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Pontifical Universidad Bolivariana Medellin Campus, in 2017. She spent three years from 2013 to 2016 as internship Ph.D. student in the Physics Institute and in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at Campinas University (UNICAMP). Presently, she is full professor in Pontifical Universidad Bolivariana Monteria-Campus, in Colombia, and acts as research collaborator in the LEMAC group in the FEEC at UNICAMP. Her main research topics are: integrated photonic, metamaterials, special optical fibers, and computational electromagnetism applied to the design of devices for optical communications and sensing.

Mateus Corato Zanarella

Mateus Corato Zanarella received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP in 2016 and is currently a M.Sc. student at the same institution. He is interested in electromagnetism in general and his current research topics include the use of Orbital Angular Momentum modes in optical fibers and integrated waveguides for telecommunication applications and the advanced engineering of electromagnetic fields characteristics.

Ruth Esther Rubio Noriega

Ruth E. Rubio Noriega received her B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the Antenor Orrego University, Trujillo, in 2009 and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Campinas State University, Campinas, Brazil, in 2012. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Campinas State University.