About the Editor

João Goes graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), in 1992. He obtained the M. Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in ECE, in 1996 and 2000 respectively, from the Technical University of Lisbon, and the ‘Agregado’ degree (‘Habilitation’ degree) in Electronics, in 2012 from the Nova University of Lisbon (NOVA). He has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT) of NOVA, since April 1998 where he is currently an Associate Professor and, since July 2012, he is the Department Chair. Since 1998, he has been a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Technology and Systems (CTS) at UNINOVA and responsible for the Microelectronics Research Unit. In Nov. 2012 he also became the Director of CTS. In Sep. 2003 he co-founded and served, for 4 years, as the CTO (and Board member) of ACACIA Semiconductor SA, a Portuguese engineering company specialized in high-performance data converter and analog front-end products (acquired by Silicon and Software Systems, S3, in Oct. 2007). Since Nov. 2007 he lectures and performs his research with part-time consultancy for S3. From March 1997 until March 1998 he was Project Manager at Chipidea SA (now SYNOPSYS). From December 1993 to February 1997 he worked as a Senior Researcher at Integrated Circuits and Systems Group (GCSI) at IST doing research on data converters and analog filters. João Goes has supervised (graduated) 9 Ph.D. theses, 16 M. Sc. theses, and 9 graduation projects. He has published over 160 papers in international journals and leading IEEE conferences and he is co-author of 6 books. João Goes is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2009 (Member since 1995) and Member of the Circuits and Systems (CAS) and Solid-State Circuits (SSC) Societies. He was also the Chairman of the IEEE CAS Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee, ASPTC, (the largest within CASS) for the term 2014-2015. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, TCAS-II, for the term 2016-2017.