João Pedro Conde received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1989. Between 1989 and 1990 he was an IBM post-doctoral fellow at Yorktown Heights. Since 1990 he has been at the Instituto Superior Técnico, the engineering school of the Universidade de Lisboa, where he is presently a full professor and president of the Department of Bioengineering. He is co-responsible for the Thin Film MEMS and BioMEMS research group and a director of INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies. His current research interests include novel thin film devices such as thin film silicon MEMS and optical sensors, integrated lab-on-chip microfluidic biosensing microsystems, and cell-chips for biomedical applications.