Raul Morais

Raul Morais dos Santos is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Engineering Department – School of Sciences and Technology of the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real – Portugal (https://www.utad.pt). Academic degrees: Habilitation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UTAD in 2009; PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (specialty microelectronics) at the UTAD in 2004; MSc in Industrial Eletronics at the University of Minho in 1998; Graduation in Electrical Engineering (branch of Electronics, Instrumentation and Computer Science) at the UTAD in 1993. Area of expertise: sensors and sensor interfaces in CMOS microelectronics, energy harvesting techniques to power small and unattended electronic devices, wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things in the context of agriculture/precision viticulture. Another area of interest is in the field of biomedical implantable devices, especially in biotelemetry systems regarding vibration microgenerators to produce electric energy inside smart prosthesis. Current R&D Centre: Senior Researcher for the Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) and Collaborator for the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC). Projects: Member of 11 research projects, 4 of them international. UTAD Coordinator of the PRR Agenda Mobilizadora Vine & Wine and Coordinator of the POCTEP/INTERREG VA project “SIAPD - Sistema Integrado transregional de apoio ao combate de pragas e doenças na agricultura”. Authorship: More than 100 Scopus-indexed papers (h-index: 24). Past & ongoing supervision: 13 PhD, 50 MSc and 60 scholarships.