Rafael A. Nóbrega received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in scientific instrumentation from the Brazilian Center for Physical Research (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He has experience in the field of electronics instrumentation, working mainly in the following subjects signal processing, automation, data acquisition, transducers, and radiation detectors.