João Goes graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), in 1992. He obtained the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in ECE, respectively, in 1996 and 2000, from the (Technical) University of Lisbon and the ‘Habilitation' degree, in Electronics, in 2012 from the NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA). Since 1998 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) of the School of Sciences and Technology of NOVA where he is, since 2018, a Full Professor.
From 2012 till 2019 he was the President of DEEC, comprising 50 professors and over 1000 students. From 2012 to 2017, he was the Director of the Centre of Technology and Systems (CTS) at the Research Institute for New Technologies (UNINOVA), leading nearly 50 Senior Researchers with a PhD, over 70 collaborators and more than 90 PhD students. Since 2023 he is the Executive Director of UNINOVA Institute.
He has been elected a member of the Scientific Council of FCT NOVA for 12 years, and he has been elected a member of the General Council of NOVA, the top governing body the University, for the 2022-2026 term.
In 2003 he co-founded and served as CTO of ACACIA Semiconductor, a Portuguese engineering company specialized in high-performance analog front-end products and data-converters (now RENESAS Electronics Corp, TYO, JPY).
From 1997 until 1998 João was Project Manager at CHIPIDEA SA (now SYNOPSYS, NASDAQ SNPS). He was the first Engineer hired.
João Goes has supervised (concluded) 20 PhD and over 80 MSc Theses in analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems. His former PhD students are spread worldwide holding very important positions.
João Goes has published over 250 papers in international journals (50+) and IEEE leading conferences, he holds 4 international patents, and he is co-author of 9 books. He has published, for multiple times, in major IEEE flagship conferences, requiring silicon-proven integrated-circuits (ICs), with measured performance beyond the state-of-the-art (ISSCC, VLSI, CICC and ESSERC).
He has been taking the leadership, as Primary Investigator of more than 30 National, European, and international projects, as well as consultancy services, over the past 25 years. This represents, in total, an accumulated value of over 10 M€.
He was Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–II, for the period 2016-2023 and he is (2024-2027) AE of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–I. He was the Chairman of the IEEE CASS Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee, for the term 2013-2015.
Among several best-paper awards, he is co-author of the journal paper recipient (winner) of the 2012 IEEE CASS Outstanding Young Author Award.