Daniel Costa receives PhD in Engineering Physics

Daniel Costa receives PhD in Engineering Physics

February 28 2024

On 28 February 2024, Dr. Daniel Costa received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled 'Dynamics of the inboard and outboard density profile at ASDEX Upgrade'. His work was supervised by Dr. Carlos Silva (IST).

The thesis committee consisted of Dr. Garrard Conway (IPP, Germany), Dr Elisabeth Wolfrum (IPP, Germany), Dr. Bruno Gonçalves (IST), Dr. Carlos Silva (IST) and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).

Congratulations Daniel !

Mariana Moreira receives PhD in Engineering Physics

Mariana Moreira receives PhD in Engineering Physics

January 25 2024

On 23 January 2024, Dr. Mariana Moreira received her PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled 'Properties of the hosing and self-modulation instabilities of long particle beams in overdense plasma'. Her work was supervised by Prof. Jorge Vieira (IST), Dr. Patric Muggli (CERN) and Dr. Bernhard Holzer (CERN).

The thesis committee consisted of Prof. Robert Bingham (Univ. Strathclyde, UK), Prof. Alexander Pukhov (Univ. Dusseldorf, Germany), Dr. Nelson Lopes (IST), Prof. Jorge Vieira (IST) and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).

Congratulations Mariana !

André Torres receives PhD in Engineering Physics

André Torres receives PhD in Engineering Physics

December 05 2023

On 5 December 2023, Dr. André Torres received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled 'Design and commissioning of the magnetic diagnostics system for COMPASS-U'. His work was supervised by Prof. Horácio Fernandes (IST), Prof. Bernardo Carvalho (IST) and Dr. Doctor Aleš Havránek (IPP Prague).

The thesis committee consisted of Dr. Martin Hron (IPP-Prague, Czech Republic), Dr. Pedro Assis (IST), Dr. Manuel García-Muñoz (Univ. Sevilla, Spain), Prof. Horácio Fernandes (IST) and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).

Congratulations André !

Ricardo Galvão: Doctor Honoris Causa and IST Distinguished Lecture

Ricardo Galvão: Doctor Honoris Causa and IST Distinguished Lecture

November 27 2023

Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão is a prominent Brazilian scientist, academic and scientific leader, with a strong link to Universidade de Lisboa (UL), through Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN).

At the proposal of IST, the UL will award the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to professor Ricardo Galvão in recognition of his outstanding academic, scientific and professional contributions, which have been highly recognized worldwide, and his collaboration with Técnico since Portugal entered the path to Nuclear Fusion.
The Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony will take place at Salão Nobre of IST, on December 4, 2023, at 10am
More details and program here

Ricardo Galvão will also deliver the IST Distinguished Lecture “Current Brazilian Environmental Policy for the Amazon Rainforest”. This is an event supported by the Scientific Area of Plasmas Physics, Lasers and Nuclear Fusion.
The IST Distinguished Lecture will take place at Abreu Faro auditorium, on December 4, 2023, at 3pm
More details here


Ricardo Galvão, current president of Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), is a full professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo and holds a PhD from MIT. He has occupied major positions within the Brazilian research organisations, in particular director of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and president of the Brazilian Physical Society. Before that, together with Ivan Nascimento, he led the team that designed and built the TBR-1, the first tokamak in Brazil and Latin America, and later on took the EPFL’s TCA to Brazil, a medium-sized tokamak currently being explored at the Institute of Physics.

As a man of causes, he has always played a civic and social role, helping, for example, to consolidate the Union of Physicists from Portuguese-Speaking Countries (UFPLP), he was a candidate for the Brazilian Congress and he was part of the scientists’ movement “Movimento dos Cientistas Engajados”.

Tiago Dias receives PhD in Engineering Physics

Tiago Dias receives PhD in Engineering Physics

November 09 2023

On 9 November 2023, Dr. Tiago Dias received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled 'Monte Carlo Algorithms for Low-Temperature Plasmas'. His work was supervised by Prof. Vasco Guerra (IST), Dr. Milan Simek (IPP Prague) and Dr. Olivier Guaitella (LPP France).

The thesis committee consisted of Dr. Zdenek Bonaventura (Masarik University, Czech Republic), Dr. Pedro Viegas (IST), Dr. Sasha Dujko (IPB, Serbia), Prof. Vasco Guerra (IST) and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).

Congratulations Tiago !