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Fabrizio Del Gaudio receives PhD in Engineering Physics
September 08 2020Last September 8, Dr. Fabrizio Del Gaudio received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled ‘Analytical and in silico modelling of collective plasma dynamics driven by QED phenomena’. His work was supervised by Dr. Thomas Grismayer (IST) and Prof. Luís O. Silva (IST), in the scope of the APPLAuSE PhD programme.
The thesis committee consisted of Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky (U. Colorado, Boulder, USA), Prof. Mattias Marklund (U. Gothenburg, Sweden), Prof. Jorge Vieira (IST), Dr Thomas Grismayer (IST) and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).
Congratulations Fabrizio!
André Lopes receives PhD in Engineering Physics
August 04 2020Last July 22, Dr. André Lopes received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled ‘Collective Thomson Scattering and Plasma Position Reflectometry systems for ITER and DEMO: Neutronics performance assessment and optimisation’. His work was supervised by Dr. Raul Luís (IST), Dr. Esben Klinkby (DTU) and Dr. Bruno Gonçalves (IST), in the scope of the APPLAuSE PhD programme.
The thesis committee consisted of Dr. José Pedro Vaz (IST), Dr. Rosaria Villari (ENEA), Dr. Carlos Silva (IST), Prof. Pedro Teles (FCUP), Dr. Esben Klinkby (DTU), and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).
André Lopes’ PhD thesis was awarded the maximum mark of “Pass with Distinction and Honour”
Congratulations André !
Hugo Hugon receives PhD in Engineering Physics
August 04 2020Last June 30, Dr. Hugo Hugon received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled ‘Beyond standard geometrical optics: Paraxial WKB treatment of lower-hybrid wave propagation in tokamaks’. His work was supervised by Prof. João Pedro Bizarro (IST) in the scope of the APPLAuSE PhD programme.
The thesis committee consisted of Dr. Yves Peysson (CEA), Dr. Hugo Terças (IST), Prof. Ricardo Galvão (USP), Dr. Paulo Rodrigues (IST), Prof. João Pedro Bizarro (IST), and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).
Congratulations Hugo !
Mario Galleti receives PhD in Engineering Physics
August 04 2020Last June 4, Dr. Mario Galletti received his PhD in Engineering Physics with a thesis entitled ‘High contrast front-end for a petawatt laser system designed for electron acceleration & High intensity laser-matter applications towards advanced compact particle accelerators’. His work was supervised by Prof. Gonçalo Figueira (IST) and Dr. Marco Galimberti (RAL, UK), in the scope of the APPLAuSE PhD programme.
The thesis committee consisted of Dr. Giancarlo Gatti (CLPU), Dr. Pedro Oliveira (RAL), Prof. Arie Zigler (Racah Institute of Physics), Dr. Nelson Lopes (IST), Prof. Gonçalo Figueira (IST), and Prof. Luís L. Alves (IST, President).
Mario Galletti’s PhD thesis was awarded the maximum mark of “Pass with Distinction and Honour”
Congratulations Mario !
Rolando Salinas receives PhD in Physics
August 04 2020Last May 18, Dr. Rolandio Salinas received his PhD in Physics with a thesis entitled ‘Molecular dynamics simulations of Rydberg and strongly correlated plasmas’. His work was supervised by Prof. José Tito de Mendonça (IST) and Dr. Gordon Robb (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland), in the scope of the APPLAuSE PhD programme.
The thesis committee consisted of Prof. Vasco Guerra (IST), Dr. João Rodrigues (Imperial College London), Dr. José António Rodrigues (UAlgarve), Dr. Hugo Terças (IST), Prof. José Tito de Mendonça (IST), and Dr. Vítor Rocha Vieira (IST, President).
Congratulations Rolando !