CFUM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of Centro De Física
Ana Rita Mota is a physics and chemistry teacher in middle
and high schools. She obtained her PhD in physics education from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Porto, Portugal, where she worked under the supervision of João Lopes dos Santos. In the academic year of 2015-2016, she was post-doc researcher in Physics Education Mazur's Group, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. In Harvard, she was teaching assistant of the courses Energy within Environmental Constraints and Applied Physics.
Ana Rita Mota is a member of Centro de Física do Porto since 2013, where she remains as a post-doc researcher in PER (Physics Education Research). Her research is devoted to developing and testing a dynamical and versatile inquiry-based method in a collaborative context: the Lab Stations model. Most recently, she has been studying the role of metacognition in learning and teaching of physics.
Job Titles:
- Member of Centro De Física
A.S. Rodrigues received his PhD from the University of Arizona, USA, in 1996. Since 1987 he is a staff member at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University.
A.S Rodrigues is a member of Centro de Física do Porto since 1994. He has participated in several national research projects, and has ongoing collaboration with several scientists abroad.
Job Titles:
- Staff Member at the Physics
Eduardo V. Castro is a he is a staff member at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Faculty of Sciences of University Porto (UP). After his PhD, obtained from UP in 2008, he was a visiting post-doc at MPI-PKS in Dresden, and a Juan de la Cierva post-doc at ICMM-CSIC in Madrid. In 2012 he joined IST at University of Lisbon as an Assistant Professor, and moved to UP in 2018. He is also an associate member at CSRC - Computational Science Research Center in Beijing, China since 2012.
E. V. Castro is the author of 40 scientific articles which has been cited over 2300 times. He has a background in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, with focus on phenomenological descriptions of 2D systems. Since 2007 he has been involved in several research projects in the field of 2D materials, funded either by Portuguese or Spanish agencies. He is currently supervising 2 MSc students, 3 PhD students, and is coordinating an Individual Marie-Curie fellowship.
F. Francisco received his PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa in 2014 with a thesis about Trajectory Anomalies in Interplanetary Spacecraft. He received the Springer Theses Prize for his doctoral thesis. In 2018 he was awarded the Zeldovich Medal from COSPAR and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2017 he is a post-doctoral fellow with a project on emerging opportunities in small satellites for earth observation and fundamental physics.
Job Titles:
- Member of Centro De Física
L. M. Martelo received his PhD in Physics in 2000 from University of Évora (Portugal), under the supervision of Professor José Carmelo, in collaboration with University of Fribourg (Switzerland) under supervision of Professor Dionys Baeriswyl. Currently, he is a staf member at the Physics Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP).
L. M. Martelo is a member of Centro de Física do Porto since 2009. He has participated in research projects from FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) and from Swiss National Foundation (Switzerland) and, currently, he is a participant in a national project from FCT.
Job Titles:
- Member of Centro De Física
M.S. Costa received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1998, where he worked under the supervision of Professor Malcolm Perry from the General Relativity group at DAMTP. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University (1998-2000) and at École Normale Superieure in Paris (2000-02). Since 2002 he is a staff member at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University.
M.S Costa is a member of Centro de Física do Porto since 2002. He has been the PI of several national research projects, of partnership projects with CERN, of European funded projects (RTN and IRSES) and, presently, of a Simons Foundation project. In 2004 M.S. Costa was awarded the Gulbenkian Science Prize for his work on String Cosmology.
Job Titles:
- Department of Physics, University of Murcia, Spain
Job Titles:
- Indicador / Researcher Indicator
Shailesh Lal received his PhD in 2013 from Harish-Chandra Research Institute in India, under the supervision of Rajesh Gopakumar. Subsequently he worked at ICTS-TIFR (2012-2013), Seoul National University (201-2015) and LPTHE, University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (2015-2017) as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2017 he joined the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University as a postdoctoral Fellow.
Shailesh Lal was awarded the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission from 2015 to 2017 at the LPTHE.
S. Nemati received her PhD from the University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran in 2017, where she worked under the supervision of Professor Saeed Mahdavifar from the University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran. Since April 2017 she works as a post-doctoral fellow at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of Porto University.
Sourav Sarkar completed his PhD at the Institute of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Staudacher. He has joined the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto as a post-doc in September 2018, as a member of the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap. He works on Conformal Field Theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Centro De Física
T. Cadez obtained his PhD from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2013, working in the Department of Theoretical Physics (F1) at Jozef Stefan Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Anton Ramsak. He then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Slovenia (2013-14) and at Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China, shared with the The Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto (CF-UM-UP) (since 2014).
T. Cadez is a member of The Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto (CF-UM-UP) since 2014. In 2017 he was PI of a one year project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.