Jose Amaral

- Team and Product management - Transfer and qualify processes from R&D to full production release. - Improve process capability through process development. Develop, optimise or propose better wafer fabrication processes, recipes and techniques. - Quality support to the manufacturing teams to solve process issues and to develop design alternatives. - Tool and process owner for ion milling process (Veeco IBE). Etch of insulating oxide and metal materials.

Post-Doctoral researcher under the FET-FP7 project MAGNETRODES Main activities and responsibilities include: - Design, fabrication, assembly integration and test of needle-shaped probes carrying micron-sized, non-cooled magnetic sensors based on spin electronics - Perform In-vivo and ex vitro experiments and later extensive data analysis

Thesis: “Measuring Neuronal Activity with High Sensitivity Magnetoresistive Sensors" - Development of a novel experimental tool that comprises microfabricated thin film magnetoresistive sensors capable to detect neuronal magnetic fields on the pTesla range

Thesis: “System to measure Synaptic Current based on magnetoresistive sensors” - Design, fabrication and integration of a local field potential system to measure the magnetic field created by the synaptic currents using a magnetoresistive sensor