Apresentação Pessoal

Main research field:

Plasma Physics, Low-temperature plasmas, Non-equilibrium kinetics, Electron Boltzmann equation, vibrational kinetics, modelling of RF, MW, DC, and pulsed plasma discharges; Afterglows; Power transfer to gas heating. 

Brief CV

Professor of Physics at FEUP since 2000 (tenure in 2006).

Academic Degrees: PhD in Physics, 2000 – Université de Paris XI, France, and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal; MSc in Physics, IST, 1996, Degree in Engineering Physics, IST, 1993.

Publications: Author of about 40 papers in peer-reviewed papers (half of them as first author); author of about 80 works presented in International Conferences, including ~20 invited talks.

Member of several International Scientific Committees (ISC):

-Chair of the ISC of ESCAMPIG (Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases) since 2016. ISC member since July 2012;

-SPPT (Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology) since July 2015;

-Member of the Steering Committee of the Plasma Thin Film International Union Meeting (PLATHINIUM) since July 2018;

-Conference on Plasma Physics, European Physical Society (EPS), member of the panel Low Temperature and Dusty Plasmas (LTDP), June 2014-July 2015. 

Other previous activities: 

Sabbatical leave at LPP (Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas), Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2013 and 2019

Sabbatical leave at LPTP (Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas), Ecole Polytechnique, France: 2006/2007

Erasmus student at LPGP (Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas), Université de Paris XI, 1993

Projects: Participation in several research and cooperation Projects, including four as PI (Pessoa, PICS/CNRS, GRICES/EGIDE, CRUP/CPU), one as Co-PI (FCT) and about ten as a team member (Europlanet-FP6,FCT,GRICES/ASCR, Pessoa).

Awards:

FEUP Award “Incentivo Científico” (to scientific merit) in 2009, 2011, 2016, 2017, and 2019

FEUP Award “Incentivo Pedagógico” (to educational merit): 2011, 2015, 2021 and 2023

Nomination for the FEUP Excellence Pedagogical Award in 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2022