Estelina Lora da Silva (0519-590B-57FB)

Curriculum Vitae

Estelina Lora da Silva

Estelina Lora da Silva. Completed the Mestrado in Física in 2010/09/01 by Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Licenciatura in Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação in 2003/09/01 by Universidade de Aveiro, Licenciatura in Física in 2009/10/02 by Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia and Doctor of Philosophy in D. Phil. in 2018/11/22 by University of Bath. Is Researcher in Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Published 31 articles in journals. Has 2 section(s) of books. Has 3 patent(s) registered. Organized 13 event(s). Participated in 22 event(s). Supervised 1 PhD thesis(es) e co-supervised 1. Supervised 3 MSc dissertation(s) e co-supervised 1. Has received 3 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 7 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 4 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Physical Sciences. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC); Density Functional Theory (DFT); Ruddlesden-Popper; Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity; Dion-Jacobson; Novos Materiais; Propriedades à Escala Nanoscópica; Técnicas Nucleares Radioactivas Exóticas; Física Nuclear Fundamental Experimental; Infra-estrutura de Física do Estado Sólido Nuclear; New Materials; Nanoscopic Scale Properties; Diamond-Qubits; Nuclear Clocks; Multiferroic; Exotic Local Nuclear Radioactive Techniques; Unique Nuclear Solid State Physics Infrastructure; Micro-Nanotechnologies; Nanostructured materials; Advanced Materials; Advanced Manufacturing; Geosciences; Astronomy; Solar System; Space Weather; Physics of Quantum Materials and Technologies; Advanced Materials for Energy; New Materials/Processes for Health and Environment; Physics and Technology of Sensing; Geomagnetism; Earth core; inverse problem; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Estelina Lora da Silva

Citation names

Silva, Estelina
E. Lora da Silva

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0519-590B-57FB
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7093-3266

Addresses

Departamento de Fisica e Astronomica, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade do Porto, 4169-007, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
French	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2014/03/01 - 2018/11/22 Concluded	D. Phil. (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Bath, United Kingdom "Modelling Structural Phase Transitions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008/09/01 - 2010/09/01 Concluded	Física (Mestrado) Major in Modelacao e Simulacao Computacional Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal	17
2004/09/01 - 2009/10/02 Concluded	Física (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal	12
1999/09/01 - 2003/09/01 Concluded	Novas Tecnologias da Comunicação (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/02/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física de Materiais Avançados Nanotecnologia e Fotónica, Portugal
2020/01/01 - 2022/10/14	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal
2018/05/01 - 2019/12/31	Researcher (Research)	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
	Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2005/03/29 - 2008/08/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Portugal
1998/03/02 - 2005/03/28	Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Geociências, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Geociências, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/10/15 - 2018/03/14	Bolseiro de Investigacao UI/50025 project: I3N	Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2014/03/03 - 2016/09/03	PhD Research Fellowship from the EPRSC Programme Grant on Metastable Materials	University of Bath, United Kingdom
	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2012/11/15 - 2014/02/28	Bolseiro de Investigacao PTDC/CTE-GIX/119967/2010	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2012/10/31	Bolseiro de Investigacao PTDC/FIS/102722/2008	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018/05/01 - 2019/12/31	COmputational Modelling for EXtreme conditions (COMEX) H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 Researcher IDF - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain	European Commission Concluded
2014/03/03 - 2016/09/03	Applying Long-lived Metastable States with Switchable Functionality via Kinetic Control of Molecular Assembly - a Programme in Functional Materials EP/K004956/1 PhD Student Fellow University of Bath, United Kingdom	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Cancelled

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/08/01 - Current	Lattice Thermal-Conductivity of Sn2S3 at high-pressure 2023.10885.CPCA.A2 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física de Materiais Avançados Nanotecnologia e Fotónica, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/02/01 - 2029/01/31	Reaction mechanism of HYDROgen evolution CATalysed by low-dimensional systems (HYDROCAT) 2022.00082.CEECIND/CP1719/CT0001 10.54499/2022.00082.CEECIND/CP1719/CT0001 Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Laboratory of Physics for Materials and Emergent Technologies LA/P/0095/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0095/2020 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal Instituto Mediterraneo para a Agricultura Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Pólo Algarve, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Material¿s Research with Radioactive Isotopes and Nuclear Techniques at ISOLDE-CERN 2021 CERN/FIS-TEC/0003/2021 Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Química Vila Real, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2020/12/31	PORTUGAL AT ISOLDE : Materials and Nuclear Physics Research with Radioactive Isotopes and Techniques CERN/FIS-PAR/0005/2017 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication UID/CTM/50025/2019 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Instituto de Nanoestruturas Nanomodelação e Nanofabricação, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal UNINOVA Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centre for Earth and Space Research of the University of Coimbra UID/Multi/00611/2019 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação da Terra e do Espaço, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2012/03 - 2015/02	Quasi-geostrophic Approximation in Planetary Liquid Cores (QG-APLIC) PTDC/CTE-GIX/119967/2010 QG-APLIC	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/11/01 - 2027/12/31	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CHAIR of the University of Évora HPC2 Researcher Universidade de Évora, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2021/12/31	Lattice thermal conductivity of biased bilayer graphene systems CPCA/A2/7263/2020 Concurso de Projetos de Computação Avançada (FCT/CPCA/2020/01) Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional, Portugal	Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional Concluded
2020/09/01 - 2021/08/31	2D JAnus FERroic MATerials DECI-16 proposal JaFerMat HPC PRACE DECI-16 (Tier-1) Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe, Belgium	Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe Concluded
2021/01/01 - 2021/06/30	Perovskite Oxide Engineering gor Green Technology CPCA/A2/7087/2020 Projetos de Computação Avançada Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/11/01 - 2020/03/07	Pressure and Temperature induced effects of the Cmcm and Pnma phases of SnSe FI-2019-3-0033 Red Española de Supercomputación IDF - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain	Centro Nacional de Supercomputación Concluded
2019/10/27 - 2019/12/14	HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme HPC17R08HI Researcher Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Science with and for Society Concluded
2019/03/01 - 2019/07/07	COmputational Modelling under EXtreme conditions QCM-2019-1-0037 Other IDF - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain	Centro Nacional de Supercomputación Concluded
2018/11/01 - 2019/03/07	COmputational Modelling under EXtreme conditions QCM-2018-3-0032 Other IDF - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain	Centro Nacional de Supercomputación Concluded
2016/01/18 - 2017/01/17	Ferroelectric Relativistic Intrinsic Solar Cells DECI-13 Panel - 13DECI0313 FRISC Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe, Belgium	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	E. Lora da Silva; Sandra Galmarini; Lionel Maurizi; Mario Jorge Cesar dos Santos; Tao Yang; David J Cooke; Marco Molinari. "Solid State Chemistry: Computational Chemical Analysis for Materials Science". In Computational Techniques for Analytical Chemistry and Bioanalysis, 287-334. United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020. Published Estelina Lora da Silva; Sandra Galmarini; Lionel Maurizi; Mario Jorge Cesar dos Santos; Tao Yang; David J. Cooke; Marco Molinari. "Solid State Chemistry: Computational Chemical Analysis for Materials Science". 2020. 10.1039/9781788015882-00287
Conference poster	Cesário, António; Rocha-Rodrigues, Pedro; Moreira, R. P.; Prasannan, Neenu; Silva de Sousa, Pedro; Correia, João; E. Lora da Silva; et al. "Local Probing of Structural Phase Transitions in Naturally Layered Perovskite Oxides". Paper presented in ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2023, 2023. Silva de Sousa, Pedro; Cesário, António; Assali, L.V.C.; Rocha-Rodrigues, Pedro; E. Lora da Silva; Prasannan, Neenu; J.G. Correia; et al. "Ab-initio Study on CsNdNb2 O7 and CsLaNb2 O7 Dion-Jacobson Perovskites". Paper presented in ISOLDE Workshop and Users Meeting 2023, 2023. Moreira, R. P.; Silva, Estelina; Stroppa, Alessandro; Lucy V. Credidio Assali; Helena Maria Petrilli; João Guilheme Correia; Armandina M. L. Lopes; Joao Pedro Esteves De Araujo. "Density Functional Theory and Perturbed Angular Correlation study of the AMnGe2O6 Clinopyroxene series". Paper presented in XXI B-MRS Meeting, 2023. Moreira, R. P.; Silva, Estelina; Stroppa, Alessandro; Lucy V. Credidio Assali; Helena Maria Petrilli; João Guilheme Correia; Armandina M. L. Lopes; Joao Pedro Esteves De Araujo. "Experimental and Computational Study Of the AMnGe2O6 (A=Be, Mg, Ca, Sr) Clinopyroxene Series". Paper presented in PISACMS 2023: Paris International School on Advanced Computational Materials Science, 2023. Cesário, António; Silva de Sousa, Pedro; Prasannan, Neenu; E. Lora da Silva; Rocha-Rodrigues, Pedro; Correia, João; Araújo, João; Armandina Maria Lima Lopes. "Combined Local Probe and Raman Study of Ca3(Mn,Ti)2O7 Perovskites". Paper presented in FÍSICA 2022 - 23a Conferência Nacional de Física e 32º Encontro Ibérico para o Ensino da Física, 2022. Silva de Sousa, Pedro; Cesário, António; Prasannan, Neenu; Silva, Estelina; Rocha-Rodrigues, Pedro; Correia, João; Araújo, João; Armandina Maria Lima Lopes. "Local probe studies and combined ab-initio calculations in CsNdNb2O7". Paper presented in FÍSICA 2022 - 23a Conferência Nacional de Física e 32º Encontro Ibérico para o Ensino da Física, 2022.
Journal article	Lin, Xidong; Li, Li; Lora da Silva, E.; Yang, Tao; Liu, Qingxia. "Emerging macromolecular brush-based materials for stabilizing lithium metal anodes". Materials Today 77 (2024): 19-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2024.05.008. 10.1016/j.mattod.2024.05.008 L. Scalise; A. Mokhles Gerami; E. Lora da Silva; L.F.D. Pereira; A.W. Carbonari. "Magnetic ground states and hyperfine interactions in YMnO3 using density functional theory". Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2024.172103. 10.1016/j.jmmm.2024.172103 M. C. B. Barbosa; E. Lora da Silva; P. Neenu Lekshmi; M. L. Marcondes; L. V. C. Assali; H. M. Petrilli; A. M. L. Lopes; J. P. Araújo. "Pressure-Induced Phase Transformations of Quasi-2D Sr3Hf2O7". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2023): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01596. 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01596 Bandiello, E.; Gallego-Parra, S.; Liang, A.; Sans, J.A.; Cuenca-Gotor, V.; Lora da Silva, E.; Vilaplana, R.; et al. "Structural, vibrational, and electronic behavior of two GaGeTe polytypes under compression". Materials Today Advances 19 (2023): 100403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2023.100403. Published • 10.1016/j.mtadv.2023.100403 Thomas Smith; Samuel Moxon; Joshua S Tse; Jonathan M Skelton; David J Cooke; Lisa J Gillie; E Lora da Silva; et al. "Structural dynamics of Schottky and Frenkel defects in CeO2: a density-functional theory study". Journal of Physics: Energy (2023): https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/acbb29. 10.1088/2515-7655/acbb29 Adeleh Mokhles Gerami; Juliana Heiniger-Schell; E. Lora da Silva; Messias S. Costa; Cleidilane S. Costa; João G. Monteiro; José J. Pires; et al. "Cd implantation in a-MoO3 : An atomic scale study". Physical Review Materials (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.033603. 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.033603 Estelina Lora da Silva; Mario C. Santos; Plácida Rodríguez-Hernández; Alfonso Muñoz; Francisco Javier Manjón. "Theoretical Study of Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Sb2S3, Bi2S3, and Sb2Se3". Crystals (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13030498. 10.3390/cryst13030498 R. Vilaplana; S. Gallego-Parra; E. Lora da Silva; D. Martínez-García; G. Delaizir; A. Muñoz; P. Rodríguez-Hernández; et al. "Experimental and theoretical study of ß-As2Te3 under hydrostatic pressure". Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2023): https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC03357G. 10.1039/D2TC03357G S. Gallego-Parra; E. Bandiello; A. Liang; E. Lora da Silva; P. Rodríguez-Hernández; A. Muñoz; S. Radescu; et al. "Layered topological semimetal GaGeTe: New polytype with non-centrosymmetric structure". Materials Today Advances (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100309. 10.1016/j.mtadv.2022.100309 Thomas Smith; Samuel Moxon; David J. Cooke; Lisa J. Gillie; Robert M. Harker; Mark T. Storr; Estelina Lora da Silva; Marco Molinari. "Structure and Properties of Cubic PuH2 and PuH3: A Density Functional Theory Study". Crystals (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12101499. 10.3390/cryst12101499 Samuel Moxon; Jonathan Skelton; Joshua S. Tse; Joseph Flitcroft; A. Togo; David J. Cooke; E. Lora da Silva; et al. "Structural dynamics of Schottky and Frenkel defects in ThO2: a density-functional theory study". J. Mater. Chem. A 10 (2022): 1861-1875. DOI: 10.1039/D1TA10072F. Open access • Published • 10.1039/D1TA10072F E. Lora da Silva; J. M. Skelton; P. Rodríguez-Hernández; A. Muñoz; M. C. Santos; D. Martínez-García; R. Vilaplana; F. J. Manjón. "A theoretical study of the Pnma and R3¯m phases of Sb2S3, Bi2S3, and Sb2Se3". Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022): https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TC01484J. 10.1039/D2TC01484J M.C. Santos; E. Lora da Silva; Tao Yang; A.M.L. Lopes; J.P. Araújo. "Strain-induced effects of topological deformed graphene". Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 540 (2021): 168429-168429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168429. 10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168429 E. Lora da Silva; A. Leonardo; Tao Yang; M. C. Santos; R. Vilaplana; S. Gallego-Parra; A. Bergara; F. J. Manjón. "ß-As2Te3 : Pressure-induced three-dimensional Dirac semimetal with ultralow room-pressure lattice thermal conductivity". Physical Review B (2021): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024103. 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024103 Estelina Lora da Silva; Adeleh Mokhles Gerami; P. Neenu Lekshmi; Michel L. Marcondes; Lucy V. C. Assali; Helena M. Petrilli; Joao Guilherme Correia; Armandina M. L. Lopes; João P. Araújo. "Group Theory Analysis to Study Phase Transitions of Quasi-2D Sr3Hf2O7". Nanomaterials 11 4 (2021): 897-897. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11040897. 10.3390/nano11040897 Bandiello, Enrico; Popescu, Catalin; da Silva, Estelina Lora; Sans, Juan Ángel; Errandonea, Daniel; Bettinelli, Marco. "PrVO4 under High Pressure: Effects on Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties". Inorganic Chemistry 59 24 (2020): 18325-18337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02933. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02933 Juan A. Sans; Rosario Vilaplana; E. Lora da Silva; Catalin Popescu; Vanesa P. Cuenca-Gotor; Adrián Andrada-Chacón; Javier Sánchez-Benitez; et al. "Characterization and Decomposition of the Natural van der Waals SnSb2Te4 under Compression". Inorganic Chemistry (2020): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01086. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01086 Ruo Xi Yang; Jonathan M. Skelton; Estelina L. da Silva; Jarvist M. Frost; Aron Walsh. "Assessment of dynamic structural instabilities across 24 cubic inorganic halide perovskites". The Journal of Chemical Physics (2020): https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5131575. 10.1063/1.5131575 André Luis de Jesus Pereira; David Santamaría-Pérez; Rosário Vilaplana; Daniel Errandonea; Catalin Popescu; Estelina Lora da Silva; Juan Angel Sans; et al. "Experimental and Theoretical Study of SbPO4 under Compression". Inorganic Chemistry (2020): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02268. 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02268 Vanesa Paula Cuenca-Gotor; Juan Ángel Sans; Oscar Gomis; Andres Mujica; Silvana Radescu; Alfonso Muñoz; Plácida Rodríguez-Hernández; et al. "Orpiment under compression: metavalent bonding at high pressure". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2020): https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CP06298J. 10.1039/C9CP06298J Silva, E.L.; Santos, M.C.; Skelton, J.M.; Yang, Tao; Santos, T.; Parker, S.C.; A.Walsh. "Electronic and Phonon Instabilities in Bilayer Graphene under Applied External Bias". Materials Today: Proceedings 20 (2020): 373-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.10.076. 10.1016/j.matpr.2019.10.076 Lauren E. Hatcher; Jonathan M. Skelton; Mark R. Warren; Clare Stubbs; E. Lora da Silva; Paul R. Raithby. "Monitoring photo-induced population dynamics in metastable linkage isomer crystals: a crystallographic kinetic study of [Pd(Bu4dien)NO2]BPh4". Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20 8 (2018): 5874-5886. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CP05422J. 10.1039/C7CP05422J E. Lora da Silva. "Bias Polarization Study of Steam Electrolysis by Composite Oxygen Electrode Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-d /BaCe0.4Zr0.4Y0.2O3-d". Applied Surface Science (2017): 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.02.080 E. Lora da Silva. "Spontaneous Octahedral Tilting in the Cubic Inorganic Cesium Halide Perovskites CsSnX3 and CsPbX3 (X= F, Cl, Br, I)". The journal of physical chemistry letters (2017): 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02423 E. Lora da Silva. "Electronic structure of interstitial hydrogen in lutetium oxide from DFT+U calculations and comparison study with µSR spectroscopy". Physical Review B (2016): 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014104 E. Lora da Silva. "Can core flows inferred from geomagnetic field models explain the Earth's dynamo?". Geophysical Journal International (2016): 10.1093/gji/ggv488 E. Lora da Silva. "Phase stability and transformations in the halide perovskite CsSnI3". Physical Review B (2015): https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.144107. 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.144107 E. Lora da Silva. "Electronic Excitations in Molecular Solids: Bridging Theory and Experiment". Faraday Discussions (2015): 10.1039/C4FD00168K E. Lora da Silva. "Hydrogen impurity in yttria: Ab initio and µ SR perspectives". Physical Review B (2012): 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.165211 E. Lora da Silva. "Electronic structure modification of si nanocrystals with f 4-tcnq". Physical Review B (2011): 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.125437 E. Lora da Silva. "Density-functional theory study of Au, Ag and Cu defects in germanium". Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (2008): 10.1016/j.mssp.2008.10.007
Thesis / Dissertation	"Modelling Structural Phase Transitions in Crystalline Solids". PhD, University of Bath, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.782143.

Intellectual property

Patent

JOSÉ CLAUDINO DE PINHO CARDOSO; ELIANA DO CARMO LIMA CORREIA; E. Lora da Silva; Tiago André César Dos Santos; Mario Jorge Cesar dos Santos. 2022. "COMBUSTÃO E PIRÓLISE DE BIOMASSA ASSISTIDA POR RADIAÇÃO ELETROMAGNÉTICA". Portugal.
Granted/Issued
Mario Jorge Cesar dos Santos; E. Lora da Silva; Tiago André César Dos Santos; João Pedro Pinto; Marco Molinari; Tao Yang. 2020. "Reduction of toxic gases through catalysis effects of tobacco burning". China.
Allowed
Cesar dos Santos, Mario Jorge; E. Lora da Silva; Tiago André César Dos Santos; João Pedro Pinto; Molinari, Marco; YANG, TAO. 2020. "Reduction of toxic gases through catalysis effects of tobacco burning, PCT Patent". China.
Allowed

Other

Other output

Assessment of Dynamic Structural Instabilities Across 24 Cubic Inorganic Halide Perovskites. 2019. Ruo Xi Yang; Jonathan Skelton; E Lora Da Silva; Jarvist Moore Frost; Aron Walsh. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9976868.
10.26434/chemrxiv.9976868
Assessment of Dynamic Structural Instabilities Across 24 Cubic Inorganic Halide Perovskites. 2019. Ruo Xi Yang; Jonathan Skelton; E Lora Da Silva; Jarvist Moore Frost; Aron Walsh. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9976868.v1.
10.26434/chemrxiv.9976868.v1
Orpiment under compression: metavalent bonding at high pressure. 2019. E. Lora da Silva.
Characterization and decomposition of the natural van der Waals heterostructure SnSb2Te4 under compression. 2019. E. Lora da Silva.
Theoretical study of phase transitions in Sb2S3, Bi2S3 and Sb2Se3 under compression. 2019. E. Lora da Silva.
Electronic and Phonon Instabilities in Bilayer Graphene under Applied External Bias. 2018. E. Lora da Silva.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/05/07	Pressure and Strain-Induced Phase Transitions: Tailoring the Properties of Materials to Desired Application	64th Session Quantum Agora Departamento de Física e Astornomia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07/27	3D Dynamical Properties on a 2D Material	20th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 12th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2023) University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/07/05	Pressure-induced phase transitions of ABO3 perovskite systems	Café com Física Departamento de Física Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/06/22	Materials Under Pressure: Tuning the Properties for Energy Applications	Workshop – Project Meeting H2INNOVATE - NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000076 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/05/25	Pressure and Strain-Induced Phase Transitions	DFT@PT Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/01/09	Thermodynamic, dynamical and electronic properties of low-dimensional carbon-based materials	1º Encontro Anual da Cátedra High Performance Computing HPC Chair, Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2021/09/30	Palestra sobre o projeto de Computação Avançada a decorrer na plataforma Oblivion	Encontro RNCA 2021 Rede Nacional de Computação Avançada (RNCA) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/09/05	FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS OF ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENTS IN RUDDLESDEN–POPPER PEROVSKITES: A TOOL TO IDENTIFY TRANSITION PATHWAYS	3rd International Conference on Hyperfine Interactions and their Applications (HYPERFINE 2021) National Institute for Materials Physics (Brasov, Romania)
2021/06/17	Density Functional Theory: Modelling and Simulation of Periodic and Finite-Sized Systems	Quantum Agora The QM@PT Seminar and Discussion Series (Porto, Portugal)
2021/05/16	Group Theory Analysis to Study Phase Transitions of Sr3Hf2O7	ISAF 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) (Sydney, Australia)
2021/01/07	ß-As2Te3: Pressure-Induced 3D Dirac Semi-Metal	International Manufacturing Forum Series 2021 (“The Universal Printer”) CDRSP - Centro para o Desenvolvimento Rápido e Sustentado do Produto (Marinha Grande, Portugal)
2020/12/07	Strain-Induced Effects of Topological Deformed Graphene	JEMS 2020 - Joint European Magnetic Symposia European Magnetism Association (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/02/26	Pressure Induced Phase-Transition of ß-As2Te3	Café com Física Departamento de Fisica, FCTUC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/09/05	Pressure-induced phase transitions in Sb2S3, Bi2S3 and Sb2Se3	57th European High Pressure Research Group Meeting on High Pressure Science and Technology (EHPRG2019) (Prague, Czech Republic)
2019/07/10	Strain-Induced Effects of Topological Deformed Graphene	47th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (Paris, France)
2019/07/02	Theoretical study of phase transitions in Sb2S3, Bi2S3 and Sb2Se3 under compression	ICAMM Conference – International Conference on Advanced Materials Modelling (Rennes, France)
2019/06/06	Grafeno: el Carbono Perfecto, #LasCharlasDelGrel	Las Charlas de Grel Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
2019/04/14	Effects of Geometric Deformation in Graphene: Dirac Oscillator	Materiais2019 Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/06/01	Modelling Approaches to Characterise Ferroelectric Rashba Materials	Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain)
2016/07/08	Chiral symmetry breaking on graphene-like materials	Computational Approaches to Sciences & Engineering (CASE-2016) CICECO & I3N Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2016/07/07	Modelling Approaches to Characterize Ferroelectric Materials: Case Study of the Prototypical GeTe	Computational Approaches to Sciences & Engineering (CASE-2016) CICECO & I3N Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2016/06/07	Phase Stability of the Halide Perovskite CsSnI3	The 13th ETSF Young Researchers' Meeting King's College of London (London, United Kingdom)
2015/06/25	Ab initio studies of lattice dynamics and phase transitions of materials	Computational Approaches to Materials Design (CAMD 2015) CICECO (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012/03/25	Hydrogen impurity in Y2O3: an Ab initio and \muSR perspective	DPG Spring Meeting (Berlim, Germany)
2009/07/20	Ab Initio study of Cu-H complexes in Germanium	25th International conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-25) (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2008/12/10	Zn, Cu and Ni metal impurities in Ge	AIMPRO'08 (Nantes, France)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - Current	Theoretically probing the structural and electronic properties of Pr-based crystals for energy applications Supervisor	MSc in Physics (Master) Universidade do Porto Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Portugal
2023/11/01 - Current	Study of the magnetic and vibrational properties of NdFeO3 Supervisor	Física (MAP-FIS) (PhD) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/01/01 - 2024/12/31	Design of Ruddlesden Popper layered structures for efficient energy materials Co-supervisor	Física (PhD) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2024/07/05	Ab-initio modeling of carbon-based minerals Supervisor	Mestrado em Astronomia e Astrofísica (Master) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física de Materiais Avançados Nanotecnologia e Fotónica, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/16	Combined Local Probe and Ab-initio Study of Dion-Jacobson Systems Co-supervisor	Mestrado em Física (Master) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física de Materiais Avançados Nanotecnologia e Fotónica, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/02	Ab Initio Study of Hf-based Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites Supervisor	Física (Master) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Física dos Materiais-Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/07/24 - 2024/07/26	21st International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 13th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2024) (2024/07/24 - 2024/07/26) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024/02/14 - 2024/02/15	Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP) and Applications (2024/02/14 - 2024/02/15) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CHAIR and HPC CENTRE , Portugal
2023/11/27 - 2023/11/28	Quantum Espresso : Applications for Material Sciences and Chemistry (2023/11/27 - 2023/11/28) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CHAIR and HPC CENTRE , Portugal
2023/07/26 - 2023/07/28	20th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials 12th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2023) (2023/07/26 - 2023/07/28) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/03/24 - 2023/03/24	Electronic Structure Software with Gaussian Based Basis-sets (2023/03/24 - 2023/03/24) Workshop (Co-organisor)	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE - UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA, Portugal
2023/02/06 - 2023/02/07	Scientific organization and programme chair of the Vienna Ab-Initio Simulation Package (VASP) Ecosystem (https://indico.hpc.uevora.pt/event/39/) (2023/02/06 - 2023/02/07) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE - UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA, Portugal
2022/07/27 - 2022/07/29	19th Edition ANM 2022 19th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 11th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2022), 27-29 July, Aveiro, Portugal (2022) (2022/07/27 - 2022/07/29) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/07/22 - 2021/07/24	17th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 10th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2021), 22-24 July, Aveiro, Portugal (2021) (2021/07/22 - 2021/07/24) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/07/18 - 2018/07/20	11th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 5rd International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2018), 18-20 July, Aveiro, Portugal (2018) (2018/07/18 - 2018/07/20) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/07/19 - 2017/07/21	9th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 3rd International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2017), 19-21 July, Aveiro, Portugal (2017), including programme chair of the Graphene Materials session and the Magnetic Materials and Spintronics session (2017/07/19 - 2017/07/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/07/25 - 2016/07/26	Ferroelectric Semiconductors for Energy Conversion (FEC-2016), 26 July 2016, Bath, UK (2016/07/25 - 2016/07/26) Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2014/10/08 - 2014/10/08	South West Computational Chemistry Meeting 2014 (SWCC'14), 8 October 2014, Bath, UK (2014/10/08 - 2014/10/08) Meeting (Co-organisor)	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2014/07/16 - 2014/07/16	Materials Information, Characterisation and Exploration (MICE-UK) Summer Workshop, 16 July 2014, Bath, UK (2014/07/16 - 2014/07/16) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	University of Bath, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/11/14 - 2022/11/17	Efficient materials modelling on HPC with Quantum Espresso, Yambo and BigDFT @ENCCS, MAX CoE Workshop	Efficient Materials Modeling workshop RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
2022/11/09 - 2022/11/11	Advanced Quantum ESPRESSO tutorial: Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response Workshop	Hubbard and Koopmans functionals from linear response École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2022/01/15 - 2022/02/19	Introduction to Julia in Digital Sciences and Humanities Workshop	Introduction to Julia in Digital Sciences and Humanities HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CHAIR and HPC CENTRE , Portugal
2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10	Beginner's Introduction to Data Handling in Digital Humanities Workshop	Beginner's Introduction to Data Handling in Digital Humanities HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CHAIR and HPC CENTRE , Portugal
2021/02/23 - 2021/02/25	Poster presentation "Group Theory Analysis to Study Phase Transitions of Sr3Hf2O7" Workshop	20th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual , Spain
2020/12/07 - 2020/12/11	Poster presentation "Strain-Induced Effects of Topological Deformed Graphene" Conference	Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS)
2020/11/26 - 2020/11/27	Poster presentation "Theoretical study of the phase transformations of Sr3Hf2O7" Workshop	Isolde Workshop and Users Meeting 2020 European Organization for Nuclear Research Department of Theoretical Physics, Switzerland
2019/09/02 - 2019/09/06	Workshop 'Abinit School on Ground State, Linear Response Properties and Dynamics' Workshop	Abinit School on Ground State, Linear Response Properties and Dynamics Ceske vysoke uceni technicke v Praze, Czech Republic
2019/07/22 - 2019/07/26	CURSO DE VERANO:MATERIA A ALTA PRESIÓN / MATTER AT HIGH PRESSURE Workshop	MATERIA A ALTA PRESIÓN / MATTER AT HIGH PRESSURE Fundación General de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2019/03/06 - 2019/03/06	Speaker in the discussion table “Internationalization and mobility in the research career” Round table	Internationalization and mobility in the research career Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual , Spain
2018/09/17 - 2018/09/19	Poster presentation "Theoretical Study of As2Se3 Under Compression" Workshop	15th USPEX Workshop (15th Lyakhov Shcool) Skolkovskij institut nauki i tehnologij, Russia
2018/09/02 - 2018/09/07	Poster presentation "Theoretical Study of As2Se3 Under Compression" Conference	56th European High Pressure Research Group Meeting (EHPRG2018) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/07/18 - 2018/07/20	Poster presentation "Theoretical Study of Sb2Se3, Sb2S3 and Bi2Se3 Under Compression" Conference	11th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 5th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2018) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/07/18 - 2018/07/20	Poster presentation "Ab-Initio Study of the Structural, Electronic and Phonon properties of Pr2O2SO4" Conference	11th International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and 5th International Conference on Advanced Graphene Materials (ANM2018) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/10/30 - 2017/11/03	Poster presentation "Modelling Structural Phase Transitions" Seminar	Seminar on "ab inito electronic structure theory for solids in the 21st century" Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung, Germany
2017/05/22 - 2017/05/27	Poster presentation "Molecular dynamics modelling of carbon fullerene" Meeting	PLUMED Meeting 2017 Scuola Internazionale di Trieste, Italy
2016/08/29 - 2016/09/02	Poster presentation "Modelling Metastable Materials" Other	Paris International School on Advanced Computational Materials Science (PISACMS2016) Sorbonne Université UFR de Physique, France
2015/06/28 - 2015/07/03	Poster presentation "Ferroelectric Instabilities in the High-Temperature Phases of the Halide Perovskite CsSnI3" Exhibition	13th European Meeting on Ferroelectricity (EMF 2015) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2014/07/31 - 2014/08/08	Poster presentation "Insights into Metastable Materials from Quantum Mechanics. Case Study of CsSnI3" Workshop	HoW exciting! Hands-on Workshop on Excitations in Solids 2014 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2014/06/05 - 2014/06/05	Poster presentation "M4: A Programme in Metastable Materials" Symposium	3rd HPC Symposium University of Bath, United Kingdom
2011/07/12 - 2011/07/21	Poster presentation "Hydrogen Impurity in Y2O3: Ab-Initio Study by Semi-local and Hybrid Functional" Workshop	Hands-on Tutorial Workshop 2011 on Ab Initio Molecular Simulations Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
2010/01/02 - 2010/01/15	Poster presentation "Electron Properties of Doped Silicon Nanocrystals" Workshop	Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications 4th International Workshop and School Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual , Spain

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/03/20	Density Functional Theory Investigation of Novel Carbon Nanostructures Obtained from C60 Polymerization (Thesis) Arguer	Jorge Diogo Marues LAranjeira (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/05/18	Layered Transition Metal Oxides: Magnetic Properties and Excitations (Thesis) Arguer	Mikel Arruabarrena Larrarte (PhD) Universidad del País Vasco - Campus Gipuzkoa, Spain
2022/12/02	Ab Initio Study of Hf-based Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites Supervisor	Maria Carolina de Barros Barbosa (Master) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/12/26 - Current	Dalton Transactions	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2021/12/20 - Current	Physical Review Applied	APS Physics
2021/06/01 - Current	Physical Review Letters	APS Physics
2020/05/01 - Current	Physical Review B	APS Physics
2020/04/01 - Current	Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letetrs	Wiley-VCH (Berlin, DE)
2019/09/07 - Current	Physical Review Research	APS Physics
2018/05/15 - Current	Physical Review Materials	APS Physics

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/05/01 - 2024/05/31	Física do Estado Sólido	Mestrado Química (Mestrado)	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Portugal
2024/02/02 - 2024/05/31	Laboratório de Física I	Licenicatura Física (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2024/02/03	Radiobiologia e Biofísica	Física Médica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2023/02/08 - 2023/05/31	Laboratório de Física I	Física (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/12/16	Biofísica	Física Médica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/03/07 - 2021/07/02	Laboratório de Física I	(Licenciatura)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2021/03/01 - 2021/07/02	Física do Estado Sólido	(Mestrado)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2018/11/27 - 2018/11/28	Physics of Sensors Lab Course (Computational modelling of crystalline structures)	(Postgraduate Certificate)	IDF - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
2015/03/01 - 2016/06/30	Computational Chemistry (Fortran 90)	Chemistry (Postgraduate Certificate)	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2015/03/01 - 2016/06/30	Computational Chemistry Lab course (molecular modelling)	Chemistry (Bachelor)	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2014/10/01 - 2015/06/30	Computational Chemistry Lab. Course (molecular modelling)	Chemistry (Bachelor)	University of Bath, United Kingdom
2014/03/01 - 2015/06/30	Computational Chemistry (Fortran 90)	Chemistry (Postgraduate Certificate)	University of Bath, United Kingdom

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2023/06/16 - 2023/12/31	Invited as Expert and Rapporteur to evaluate proposals submitted to the M-ERA.NET 2023 call Evaluator	Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria	Horizon 2020
2022/10/19 - 2022/11/29	Invited as Expert and Rapporteur to evaluate proposals submitted to the call HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-02 Specialist	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium	European Research Executive Agency
2021/11/05 - 2022/02/28	Invited as Expert to evaluate proposals submitted to the call HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 Specialist	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium	European Research Executive Agency

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/06/01 - Current	Invited Scientific Reviewer for the PRACE Tier-1 DECI 17th proposals (scientific area Materials Science)	Partnership for Advanced Computing In Europe, Belgium

Distinctions

Award

2019	PROVIT! - Internal procedure for selection of technologies Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018	PROTOTRANSFER – II Market-oriented Prototypes Contest, within the framework of INESPO III Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Other distinction

2016

Seal of Excellence: certificate delivered by the European Commission, as the institution managing Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020, for the project proposal 740514, COMEX

EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium