Pedro Miguel Cruz was born in Ovar, Portugal in 1982. He received a M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (2008) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2012), both from Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
From Sept. 2006 to April 2007, he has worked at Portugal Telecom Inovacao as a trainee in a project of localization systems based in wireless devices. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher with the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes (IT) being involved in the characterization and modeling of nonlinear distortion in software defined radio and cognitive radio front ends, as well as, high-speed data converters (A/D & D/A).
He was a reviewer for IET Electronics Letters and IEEE TCAS-II and co-authored more than 20 international and national papers including book chapters, journals and conferences. He has been recognized with the 3rd place in the GAAS Association PhD Student Fellowship for EuMIC 2009.
