João L. Rebola was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 29, 1976. He received the degree of “Licenciatura” in electrical engineering in Telecommunications and Computers, in 2000, from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon Technical University, Portugal.

He is presently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, and his main present research interests include optical filtering and performance evaluation in DWDM systems.