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Published on Feb. 26, 2024, 11:44 a.m.
Bruna Lima, a student on the Master's Degree in Engineering Physics Technology (MEFT) at Tecnico's Physics Department, has been selected for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Scholarship Program of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which aims to help increase the number of women in the nuclear field. The students selected …
Published on Jan. 25, 2024, 11:25 a.m.
Imagine a beam of light that keeps its shape as it travels, like a solitary wave on water. Scientists from an international group, involving TU Wien, Harvard, Técnico Lisboa and Italian research institutes, have miniaturized soliton lasers into tiny chip-scale rings, with the potential to transform areas from environmental sensing …
Published on Jan. 8, 2024, 2:37 p.m.
The online version of Physics Department Newsletter #3 can be read here.
Published on Nov. 8, 2023, 3:13 p.m.
Six Technological Physics Engineering students from Técnico have been selected for the Gulbenkian New Talents program in the field of Physics. David Valverde, Afonso Santos, Estêvão Gomes, Inês Gonçalves, Leonor Gonçalves and Mariana Abreu (from left to right in the photo) will receive a scholarship that includes an immersive talent …
Published on Oct. 26, 2023, 5:56 p.m.
The online version of Physics Department Newsletter #2 can be read here.
Published on Oct. 26, 2023, 3:44 p.m.
Stanford University and the Elsevier publishing group have published an updated annual list of the 200,000 most cited scientists worldwide in 2022, representing the Top 2%. This list includes 14 researchers who in 2022 were active in the various research units linked to DF:CENTRA: Javier Rubio; José Sande Lemos; Masato …
Published on Oct. 23, 2023, 1:50 p.m.
Frederico Fiúza, researcher and professor of plasma physics at DF, was recently named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). This title was “created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through research and publications, or made innovative contributions in the application of physics to science …
Published on Oct. 19, 2023, 12:13 p.m.
An international team of researchers led by Bernardo Malaca (PhD student in the Lasers and Plasmas Group, Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion), under the guidance of Jorge Vieira (professor in the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico), has determined how collective movements can radiate as single particles. The …
Published on Oct. 4, 2023, 9:42 a.m.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for the discovery of attosecond pulses - 1e-18s. This new light source has revolutionized all measurements of ultrafast processes, making it possible to reach the time scale of electrodynamics in matter.Attosecond pulses obtained for …
Published on Sept. 21, 2023, 10:29 a.m.
The Physics Department welcomes the new LEFT students and wishes them success in this new adventure.
Published on Sept. 4, 2023, 2:34 p.m.
Project Plasma Surface Interaction (Data and Tools) COupled Modelling (PSI.COM) studies how to use plasmas to produce fertilizers !The project involves:- modelling and diagnostics of N2-H2 plasmas- the development and the consolidation of the LisbOn KInetics (LoKI) tool suite, including Machine Learning tools for sensitivity analysisYou can develop some of …
Published on June 19, 2023, 4:31 p.m.
In order to keep the Physics Department (FD) community informed, a newsletter will be sent out at the end of each term, highlighting the most relevant events of interest to our teachers, researchers and students. We invite the entire Physics Department community to contribute to disseminating the best of what …
Published on June 8, 2023, 3:37 p.m.
Uma equipa internacional de investigadores liderada por Marco Piccardo, professor no Departamento de Física do Instituto Superior Técnico, combinou óptica ultra-rápida e luz estruturada para criar uma nova família de feixes de luz chamados de "molas de luz". Essa descoberta tem aplicações potencialmente disruptivas em áreas como microscopia ultrarrápida, aceleração …
Published on July 12, 2022, 12:24 p.m.
For the first time, IUPAP has awarded a prize to a researcher affiliated with a Portuguese research institution. Marija Vranic was the distinguished researcher in the 2022 edition.Marija Vranic, a researcher at the Lasers and Plasmas Group (GoLP) of the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion (IPFN) and visiting professor …
Published on Feb. 24, 2022, 1:21 p.m.
Dr. Marina Vranic is the 2022 recipient of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for her significant impact on High-Performance Computing (HPC) in Europe. Dr. Vranic is a pioneer in extreme plasma simulation techniques, and is also extremely dedicated to increasing the visibility of women in physics and HPC - for …