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Unit of INESC PORTO, being responsible for several national and European research
contracts. His current research interests include hybrid sol-gel–based waveguides, optical
photosensitivity, Bragg gratings, electric-field poling, optical switching, and integrated
optical sensors.
António A. M. P. Leite graduated in electrical engineering from the University
of Porto, Portugal, in 1973. In 1979 he was awarded a Ph.D. from University College
London, Department of Electronic and Electric Engineering, for research in holographic
optical elements. Appointed associate professor at the Department of Physics, University
of Porto, in 1979, he has been involved since then in projects on optical communication,
fiber sensors, and integrated optic devices in lithium niobate, III-V semiconductors,
polymers, and glass. His current interests are in the field of integrated optics (glass and
polymer devices, electro-optic and rare-earth doped devices), fiber sensors, and sensor
networks.
Paulo J. Moreira graduated in physics and applied mathematics and then concluded
a Masters course in optoelectronics and lasers in the Physics Department of the University
of Porto. He is currently a Ph.D. student working in the field of hybrid sol-gel for the
development of integrated optic applications. His interests include microfabrication and
nanotechnologies.
Miguel Melo was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1976. He graduated in optoelectronics
and lasers from the University of Porto in 2001. He is now working as a researcher in the
Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit of INESC Porto. He is currently an M.Sc
student in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
Thomas E. A. Schmidt was born on December 11, 1975, in Wolfach, Germany. In
2002 he received his B.Sc. degree in Microsystems Technology from the University of
Applied Sciences in Zweibruecken, Germany. Thereafter, he worked on position determination
using miniaturized ultrasonic transducers at the University of Applied Sciences in
Zweibruecken. In 2003 he joined the optoelectronics group at INESC Porto, where he is
currently involved in developing thermo-optical switches using hybrid sol-gel technology.
His research interests include microfabrication processes and MEMS.
Daniel Alexandre received a degree in electrical engineering (1999) from the University
of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and an M.Sc in optoelectronics and lasers (2003)
from the University of Porto, Portugal. He is a teaching assistant at the University of
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro and since 2002 he has been developing research in the Optoelectronics
and Electronics Systems Unit of INESC PORTO. He is currently a Ph.D.
student working in the field of laser direct writing for the development of integrated optic
applications. His interests include microfabrication, laser direct writing, and integrated
optical devices.
Roland Muenzner graduated in physics from the University of Tuebingen, Germany,
in 1996, where he also obtained his doctorate in physics in 2001. Since the beginning of
2001 he has worked for Alcatel Research & Innovation at Stuttgart, Germany. There the
focus of his research activities from 2001 to 2003 has been on passive integrated optical
components, which has since switched to broadband wireless access systems.
J. Stewart Aitchison received a B.Sc. (with first class honors) and a Ph.D. from the
Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., in 1984 and 1987 respectively.
His dissertation research was on optical bistability in semiconductor waveguides.
From 1988 to 1990 he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore, Red
Bank, New Jersey. His research interests were in high nonlinearity glasses and spatial
optical solitons. He then joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,
University of Glasgow, in 1990, and was promoted to a personal chair as professor of