MARCELO MARTINS WERNECK was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC) in 1975. He obtained his MSc from the Biomedical Engineering Program at COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1977. In 1978 he joined the Department of Electronics and Computing at UFRJ where he is currently Full Professor. His Ph.D. was obtained at the University of Sussex, UK, in 1985. He is currently coordinator of the Instrumentation and Photonics Laboratory of the Postgraduate Electrical Engineering Program at COPPE where he develops research in optical fiber sensors, instrumentation, and transducers. In 2014, he joined the Postgraduate Nanotechnology Engineering Program where he develops research in nanophotonics and nanobiosensors. His research is concentrated in the areas of Electrical Engineering, Oil & Gas, and Biotechnology.

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