Guiomar Gaspar de Andrade Evans
1. Personal
Name: Guiomar Gaspar de Andrade Evans
Place and Date of Birth: Barreiro, January 31, 1966
Nationality: Portuguese
2. Academic Degrees
2006 PhD in Physics, Speciality of Electronics and Instrumentation, Faculdade de
Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
1996 Master in Materials Engineering, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
1991 Licence in Technological Physics, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
3.
Career
Since 2006
Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade de Lisboa
Since 2015
Member of Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute
Since 2007
Erasmus Coordinator, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade de Lisboa
Since 2006
Member of Grupo Português do Calorímetro Hádronico Tilecal,
ATLAS/LHC/CERN
Since 2012
Collaborator of Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de
Partículas
2006 - 2014
Member of Centro de Física da Matéria Condensada, Universidade de
Lisboa
2007 - 2009
Collaborator of Centro de Física Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa
2002 - 2007
Collaborator of UNINOVA - Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas
Tecnologias
1998 - 2006
Assistant, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de
Lisboa
1991 - 1998
Senior Engineer, Optoelectronics Department, EID - Empresa de
Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Electrónica, S.A.
1990
Intership at Optoelectronics Department, EID - Empresa de Investigação
e Desenvolvimento de Electrónica, S.A.
4. Academic Advising
a. PhD Degree
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Co-adviser of the student Michael Figueiredo for the PhD Degree in Eng.ª
Electrotécnica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa. Thesis work:”Reference-Free High-Speed CMOS Pipeline Analog-toDigital Converters”. Advisor: Prof. Doutor João Goes from the Department of
Electrical and Computer Eng., Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa. The work was initiated in May 2008 and presented in March
2012.
b. Master’s Degree
Adviser of the student José Domingos Resende Gomes Lopes Alves for the Master
Degree in Eng.ª Física, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Thesis
work: ”Interface Ethernet para um Testador de Sistemas Electrónicos no Tilecal”.
Co-Adviser: Prof. Doutor José Soares Augusto from the Physics Department,
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa. The work was initiated in May
and presented in December 2012.
• Co-adviser of the student Rui Pedro Rodrigues Caldeira for the Master Degree in
Eng.ª Física, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Thesis work:
”Controlling Superparamagnetic Particles with Dynamic Magnetic Fields
Generated by a Helmholtz-Coil System”. Advisor: Prof. Doutor Claus Fütterer
from the Leipzig University. The work was initiated in February and presented in
December 2010.
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c. Projects
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“Simulação de Geradores de Ruído Gaussiano e Teste Dinâmico de um ADC
Concorrencial”, student José Domingos Resende Gomes Lopes Alves, Physics
Department, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, February 2012.
“Pré-Amplificador de Baixo Ruído para Contadores Proporcionais Utilizados em
Espectroscopia de Mössbauer”, student José Domingos Resende Gomes Lopes
Alves, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 2010.
“Estudo de um Gerador de Sinais Adequado à Espectroscopia de Mössbauer”,
student Mafalda Madeira Pinto Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade de Lisboa, 2009.
“Unidade de Controlo e Gerador de Funções para Transdutor Mössbauer”, student
Ana Isabel Martinho Henriques Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências,
Universidade de Lisboa, 2008.
5. Main Scientific Areas of Research
1. Development and project of Gaussian and uniform noise generators to perform on-chip,
built-in self-test (BIST) and built-in self-calibration (BISC) of ADCs.
2. Implementation and testing of complex digital systems on reconfigurable circuits.
3. Study and measurements of the AC magnetic susceptibility at high temperatures and
low-temperature resistivity of magnetic materials.
6. Awards
2012 - Outstanding Young Author Award
The "IEEE Outstanding Young Author Award" honours a single article, exceptionally
meritorious, published in the previous three years (2009-2011), one (or several) researcher
(s) under the age of 30 years, in every magazine of the Society of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems (CASS). Article: “A Two-Stage Fully-Differential Inverter-based Self-Biased
CMOS Amplifier with High Efficiency”; M. Figueiredo, R. Santos-Tavares, E. Santin, J.
Ferreira, G. Evans and J. Goes. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I:
Regular Papers, pp. 1591-1603, Vol. 58, Nº 7, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2150910, June
2011.
1993 - Prémio de Inovação
Assigned by Associação Nacional de Industriais de Material Eléctrico e Electrónico, due
to the interest, novelty and usefulness of the work BRICORK – Broqueamento Inteligente
de Rolhas de Cortiça, presented in ENDIEL (Encontro Nacional para o Desenvolvimento
das Indústrias Eléctricas e Electrónicas).
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Patent
EP 1 473 836 B1 - Digital-Domain Self-Calibration and Built-in Self-Testing Techniques
for High-Speed Integrated A/D Converters Using White Gaussian Noise”, N. Paulino, M.
D. Ortigueira, M. Unterweissacher, G. Evans and J. Goes, European Patent Office, August
2, 2006.
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Projects (short list)
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EXPL/FIS-NAN/1395/2013 – Estudos em Física Biológica Baseados em
Microscopia com Retroacção em Força (“Biological physics studies based on Force
Feedback Microscopy”).
CERN/FP/123595/2011 – Colaboração na experiência ATLAS do CERN.
CERN/FP/116396/2010 - Colaboração na Migração dos Sistemas Electrónicos de
Rectaguarda do Tilecal/ATLAS/LHC para as Especificações do SLHC.
PTDC/FIS/102270/2008 – Nitretos Magnéticos Nano-Estruturados.
CERN/FP/83515/2008 – Sistemas de Informação e Aquisição de Dados para
ATLAS.
SECA (POCTI/ESE/47061/2002) – Conversor A/D Concorrencial de Video,
Auto-Calibrado, de Baixa Potência e de Baixa Tensão de Alimentação com Função
de Auto-Teste.
ADOPT (PCTI/1999/ESE/33311) – Optimização de conversores A/D
concorrenciais.
INNOVA (Esprit 21017) - High Performance Telemeasure and Telecontrol Station
with Image and Sound Capabilities.
TOPAZ (EUCLID CEPA 8: RTP 8.1) – Affordable Lightweight Thermal
Imaging Systems.
Publications (short list)
1. Book
Reference-Free CMOS Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters, Michael Figueiredo, João
Goes and Guiomar Evans, ISBN 978-1-4614-3466-5, ACSP - Analog Circuits and Signal
Processing Series, Springer, 2013.
2. International Journals
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“Stability and Magnetic Properties of Cobalt Nitrides”, M. B. Lourenço, M. D.
Carvalho, P. Fonseca, T. Gasche, G. Evans, M. Godinho and, M. M. Cruz, Journal
of Alloys and Compounds, pp. 176-182, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.05.048,
2014.
• “A Reference-Free 7-bit 500 MS/s Pipeline ADC Using Current-Mode Reference
Shifting and Quantizers with Built-in Thresholds", M. Figueiredo, E. Santin, N.
Paulino, G. Evans and, J. Goes, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
Journal (Springer), pp. 53-65, Vol. 74, DOI: 10.1007/s10470-013-0030-1,
February 2013.
• “A Two-Stage Fully-Differential Inverter-based Self-Biased CMOS Amplifier with
High Efficiency”; M. Figueiredo, R. Santos-Tavares, E. Santin, J. Ferreira, G.
Evans and, J. Goes. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I: Regular
Papers, pp. 1591-1603, Vol, 58, Nº 7, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2150910, July
2011.
• “Magnetic and transport properties of transition-metal implanted ZnO single
crystals”; R. P. Borges, B. Ribeiro, A. R. G. Costa, C. Silva, R. C. da Silva, G.
Evans, A. P. Gonçalves, M. M. Cruz, M. Godinho and, U. Wahl; The European
Physical Journal B, Vol. 79, pp. 185-195, DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2010-10512-3,
January 2011.
• “Low-voltage low-power broadband CMOS analogue circuit for white Gaussian
noise generation”; G. Evans, J. Goes and, N. Paulino, JOLPE - Journal of Low
Power Electronics, American Scientific Publishers, pp. 1-9, Vol. 2, N° 2, August
2006.
3. International Conferences
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“A Digital Pseudorandom Uniform Noise Generator for ADC Built-In Self-Test”,
J. Alves and, G. Evans, DTIS 2015 – Design & Technology of Integrated Systems
in Nanoscale Era, Naples, Italy, April 2015.
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“Three Channel G-Link Transmitter Emulation in FPGA for the ATLAS Tile Muon
Digitizer Board”, J. Alves, A. Gomes, G. Evans and, J. Soares Augusto, REC 2015
- VIII Jornadas sobre Sistemas Reconfiguráveis, pp. 47-52, ISBN: ISBN: 978-98998875-2-7, Porto, Portugal, February 2015.
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“ADC Built-in-Self-Test Based on a Pseudorandom Uniform Noise Generator”, G.
Evans, DCIS 2014 – XXIX Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated
Systems, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/DCIS.2014.7035596, Madrid, Spain, November
2014.
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“Emulation in FPGA of G-Link Chip-set of Tile Calorimeter Electronic System”,
J. Alves, G. Evans, J. S. Augusto and, J. Silva, CETC 2013 - Conference on
Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Lisbon, Portugal, December
2013.
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“Two-Stage Fully-Differential Inverter-based Self-Biased CMOS Amplifier with
High Efficiency”; M. Figueiredo, E. Santin, J. Goes, R. Santos-Tavares and, G.
Evans; ISCAS 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
pp. 2828-2831, DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5536985, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5308-5,
Paris, France, June 2010.
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“New Simple Digital Self-Calibration Algorithm for Pipeline ADCs using the
Internal Thermal Noise”; M. Figueiredo, N. Paulino, G. Evans and, J. Goes, ISCAS
2008 - 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 232-235,
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541397, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1683-7, Seattle, USA,
May 2008.
“On-chip built-in self-test of video-rate ADCs using Gaussian noise”; G. Evans, J.
Goes and, N. Paulino, ISCAS 2005 - 2005 IEEE International Symposium on
Circuits and Systems, Vol. I, pp. 796-799, IDS Number: BCZ06, ISSN: 0277-674X,
ISBN: 0-7803-8834-8, Kobe, Japan, May 2005.
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