José Miguel da Silva Bergano

José Bergano

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	15-11-2011
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Scientific Area:	Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group:	Integrated Circuits – Av

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Address: IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 234 377 900
Fax: +351 234 377 901

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-9567

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 26-01-2016
MSc, Universidade de Aveiro, 01-01-2007
Licenciatura, Universidade de Aveiro, 01-01-2004

Expertise Topics

Estudo e desenvolvimento de Instrumentação para cîencias do espaço, remote sensing, radioastronomia.
Desenho e concepção de hardware para RF, microondas e electrónica digital
Especialista em sistemas reconfiguráveis (FPGA, VHDL, Verilog programming) e sistemas embebidos (Microchip, Nordic, Atmel).
Zigbee, BLE, GSM and GPS
C, C++ and JAVA programming
Project management

Affiliations

Instituto de Telecomunicações, 01-01-2005, Engineer

Academic Activities

Supervision of theses

1PhD Student

Space Debris Radar Data Processing Techniques, PhD Student, João Pandeirada, Expected conclusion 07-2024

1MSc Student

Analysis and Simulation of a Ground-based Radar for Space Debris Detection, MSc Student, Jason Earl Baptista Adams, Concluded 10-2018

Co-Supervision of theses

4MSc Student

EngageSKA Observation Portal, MSc Student, Domingos Nunes, Expected conclusion 12-2020
Usability front end for Radio Astronomy Scientific and Academic Applications, MSc Student, João Guerra, Expected conclusion 12-2020
Amplificadores de Baixo Ruído para Aplicações em Radioastronomia, MSc Student, Hélder Alexandre Machado Cardoso, Concluded 02-2015
Desenho de Amplificadores de Baixo Ruído para Radioastronomia, MSc Student, Clara Maria Apolinário Lucas da Silva, Concluded 12-2014

Publications

1Books

D. Barbosa, S. Anton, JPB Barraca, MB Bergano, A. C. Correia, D. Maia, V. Ribeiro, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020,
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7Books Chapters

D. Barbosa, S. Anton, MB Bergano, T. Boekholst, B. Coelho, A. C. Correia, D. Maia, V. Ribeiro, JA Adams, Radioastronomy and Space Science in Azores: Enhancing the Atlantic VLBI Infrastructure cluster ; I - Scientific opportunities, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, Domingos Barbosa, Sonia Antón, João Paulo Barraca, Miguel Bergano, Alexandre Correia, Dalmiro Maia, Valério Ribeiro, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
D. Barbosa, S. Anton, MB Bergano, T. Boekholst, B. Coelho, A. C. Correia, D. Maia, V. Ribeiro, JA Adams, Radioastronomy and Space Science in Azores: Enhancing the Atlantic VLBI Infrastructure cluster; II- Space synergies, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
B. Morgado, D. Maia, D. Barbosa, JPB Barraca, MB Bergano, D. Bartashevich, N. Silva, Virtualization technologies for the SKA data challenge: high availability and reproducibility requirements, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
L. Lucas, N. Silva, J. Esteves, D. Barbosa, D. Maia, JPB Barraca, MB Bergano, D.G. Gomes, SKA Slow Transients Pipeline Prototype and compute platforms: towards multi-messaging Big data pipelines, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
D. Barbosa, D. Maia, B. Morgado, H. Ribeiro, S. Anton, V. Ribeiro, A. C. Correia, M. Avillez, J. P. M. Martins, J. Barros, JJC Caeiro, MB Bergano, T. Boekholst, B. Coelho, JPB Barraca, D.G. Gomes, R. Aguiar, ENAbling Green E-science for SKA - Capacitation and Sustainability of Portuguese participation in the SKA with radioastronomy as an Innovation Open Living Lab, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
D. Barbosa, JPB Barraca, MB Bergano, D.G. Gomes, D. Maia, L. Seca, Power Monitoring and Control for Large Scale projects: SKA, a case study, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020
V. Ribeiro, A. Anjo, D. Barbosa, JPB Barraca, D.G. Gomes, MB Bergano, D. Maia, M. Bastos, N. Sillero, A. Teodoro, M. Cunha, J. A. G. Gonçalves, S. Anton, A. C. Correia, V. C. Cuambe, D. M. Machaieie, C. M. P. Paulo, J. Fernandes, N. P. Peixinho, T. B. Barata, V. Lagarto, DOPPLER: Development of PALOP Knowledge in Radio Astronomy, Chapter in, Portuguese SKA White Book, Domingos Barbosa, Sonia Antón, João Paulo Barraca, Miguel Bergano, Alexandre Correia, Dalmiro Maia, Valério Ribeiro, UA Editora – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 2020

6Papers in Journals

MB Bergano, A. Bridger, Y. Gupta, S. Choudhuri, M. DiCarlo, G. Roux, S. Natarajan, R. Smareglia, M. Patil, D. Barbosa, L. Van den Heever, JPB Barraca, SKA telescope manager: a status update, SPIE Photonics, Devices, and Systems, Vol. 10707, No. 03, pp. 1 - 20, July, 2018,
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I. S. V. Ferreira, C. T. Tello, MB Bergano, T. V. Villela, D. Barbosa, G. F. S. Smoot, A C-band broadband ortho-mode transducer for radioastronomy polarimetry, SpringerPlus, Vol. 5, No. 2069, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2016,
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MB Bergano, A. Rocha, L. Cupido, D. Barbosa, T. V. Villela, J. Boas, G. Rocha, G. F. S. Smoot, A high performance cost‑effective digital complex correlator for an X‑band polarimetry survey, SpringerPlus, Vol. 5, No. 487, pp. 1 - 14, April, 2016,
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MB Bergano, F. F. Fernandes, L. Cupido, D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, I. S. V. Ferreira, B. Grossan, G. F. S. Smoot, Digital Complex Correlator for a C-band Polarimetry survey, Experimental Astronomy, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 23 - 37, February, 2011 | BibTex
MB Bergano, Channel Equalization in Digital Transmission, Intrnl. Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2, pp. 89 - 96, August, 2009 | BibTex
MB Bergano, The Polarized synchrotron with GEM, Proceedings of Scince, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 1 - 10, April, 2007,
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4Papers in Conferences

JPB Barraca, B. Morgado, D. Maia, MB Bergano, D. Bartashevich, M. DiCarlo, M. Canzari, M. Dolci, R. Smareglia, Very large scale high performance computing and instrument management for high availability systems through the use of virtualization at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy, Texas, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2018,
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MB Bergano, D. Barbosa, Design, Environmental and Sustainability Constraints of new African Observatories: The example of the Mozambique Radio Astronomy Observatory, IEEE Africon Conference Mauritius, Port Louis, Mauritius, Vol., pp. -, November, 2013 | BibTex
MB Bergano, D. Barbosa, A. Rocha, L. Cupido, A 5 GHz LNA for a radio-astronomy experiment, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, March, 2011 | BibTex
MB Bergano, L. Cupido, D. Barbosa, R. Fonseca, D. Santos, Design of an IF Section for a Galactic Emission Mapping experiment, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 69 - 72, April, 2007 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects3

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DOPPLER	Development of PALOP Knowledge in Radio Astronomy	FCT, Aga Khan Development Network	28-08-2018	27-08-2020
EyeInTheSky	Utilização de Balões de Alta-Altitude para Apoio à Decisão em Operações de Combate a Incêndios Rurais	FCT	01-01-2020	31-12-2022
SST 2020	Space Surveillance and Tracking 2020	EU/H2020, Ministério da Defesa	26-05-2020	31-12-2021

Closed Projects4

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
BIOSTIRLING-4SKA	A COST EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR A NEW GENERATION OF SOLAR DISH-STIRLING PLANTS BASED ON STORAGE AND HYBRIDIZATION	EC/FP7	01-03-2013	01-03-2015
ENGAGE SKA	ENAbling Green E-science for SKA - Capacitation and Sustainability of Portuguese participation in the SKA with radioastronomy as an Innovation Open Living Lab	FCT/POCI, P2020	01-05-2017	29-04-2020
GEM	Galactic Emission Mapping	FCT/POCI	01-01-2005	31-12-2007
PANORAMA	PANORAMA - Plataforma Rádio	PT Inovação	01-01-2009	01-06-2011

Other Scientific Achievements

1Miscellaneous

D. Barbosa, JPB Barraca, D.G. Gomes, MB Bergano, B. Coelho, D. Maia, B. Morgado, JJC Caeiro, João Martins Martins, A. C. Correia, T. Boekholst, V. Ribeiro, WHITE PAPER : A Portuguese SKA Data Challenge, National Delegate, Requested by FCT for RNCA, 01-09-2019

Other Contributions

4Refereeing Journals

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
2016, 1 review(s);
IET Circuits, Devices and Systems
2019, 1 review(s);
The Journal of Engineering
2020, 1 review(s);
IET Electronics Letters
2020, 1 review(s);

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