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Ana Sofia Sousa earned her Master's in Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa in 2024 and is currently a research fellow at the same institution, working with ion beam modification, analysis and characterisation of wide-bandgap semiconductors. She is also coordinating the AfterSchool Online project at TreeTree2 and the treasurer for the Lisbon Young Minds.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Sofia Camões de Sousa

Citation names

  • Sousa, Ana Sofia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2D10-CF00-D200
ORCID iD
0009-0005-4018-8479

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 961266266 (Personal)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/03/17 - 2025/09/16
Ongoing
Diploma de Formação Avançada em Metodologias e Técnicas de Investigação Científica (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/09 - 2024/12
Concluded
Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Optimizing Gallium Oxide Thin Films for Electro-Optical Applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
19
2023/06/12 - 2023/07/31
Concluded
Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas (Outros)
Instituto CRIAP, Portugal
5 - Aproveitamento Excelente
2019/09 - 2022/07
Concluded
Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
18
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/07 - 2021/09 Research Trainee (Research) Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2025/02 - Current Coordenadora do AfterSchool Online TreeTree2, Portugal
2024/10 - 2024/12 Coordenadora do Alpha TreeTree2, Portugal
2024/02 - 2024/12 Developer no projeto GPT4CTEM TreeTree2, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/01 Coordenadora de Operações do AfterSchool Online TreeTree2, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/03/17 - 2025/09/16 ReMade-at-ARI
BL34/2025
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Horizon Europe
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30 IPFN Science Summer Camp 2022/IPFN
BL168/2022-IST-ID
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Governo da República Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior

Contract

Designation Funders
2025/03 - 2025/12 Ion beam processing of Ga2O3
2022.05329.PTDC
Researcher
INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Sousa, Ana Sofia; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Tiago T. Robalo; Rodrigues, Mário; Luís F. Santos ; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana Sofia. "Study of RF-sputtered Ga2O3 Thin Films for DUV Photodetectors". Paper presented in WOCSDICE - EXMATEC 2025, 2025.
  2. Freitas, Inês; Sousa, Ana Sofia; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Costa, Ângelo Rafael Granadeiro; Madureira, Joana; Cabo Verde, Sandra; Karla Ivankovic Nizic; et al. Corresponding author: Freitas, Inês. "Formation and modification of Ag and Au nanoparticles created by ion implantation in Ga2O3 thin films". Paper presented in WOCSDICE - EXMATEC 2025, 2025.
  3. Sousa, Ana Sofia; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Reinhard Schwarz; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana Sofia. "Effect of Ion Implantation on the Opto-Electronic Properties of Ga2O3 Thin Films". Paper presented in REI22, 2025.
  4. Cardoso Pedro, Miguel; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Sousa, Ana Sofia; Alves, Luís; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Cardoso Pedro, Miguel. "High responsivity and persistent photoconductivity in UV photodetectors obtained by ion-beam-assisted exfoliation of ß-Ga2O3". Paper presented in REI22, 2025.
  5. Freitas, Inês; Sousa, Ana Sofia; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Costa, Ângelo Rafael Granadeiro; Madureira, Joana; Cabo Verde, Sandra; Karla Ivankovic Nizic; et al. Corresponding author: Freitas, Inês. "Formation and modification of Ag and Au nanoparticles created by ion implantation in Ga2O3 thin films". Paper presented in REI22, 2025.
  6. Sousa, Ana S.; Luís F. Santos ; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana S.. "Optical Study of Gallium Oxide Thin Films Deposited by RF-Sputtering". Paper presented in AOP 2024, 2024.
  7. Gonçalves, Inês S; Freitas, Inês; Sousa, Ana; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Ferreira, Beatriz; Meirinho, Rui; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. "Ag and Au plasmonic nanoparticles formed in ß-Ga2O3 thin films by ion implantation". Paper presented in IWGO 2024, 2024.
  8. Sousa, Ana S.; Verheij, Dirkjan; Luís F. Santos ; Freitas, Susana C.; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana S.. "Radio-Frequency Magnetron Sputtering and Annealing of Ga2O3 Thin Films". Paper presented in IBMM-2022, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Sousa, Ana Sofia; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Tiago T. Robalo; Mario S Rodrigues; Luís F. Santos ; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana Sofia. "Effect of Annealing on Al Diffusion and its Impact on the Properties of Ga2O3 Thin Films Deposited on c-Plane Sapphire by RF Sputtering". physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters (2025): https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.202500053.
    10.1002/pssr.202500053
Preprint
  1. Sousa, Ana S.; Magalhães Esteves, Duarte ; Tiago T. Robalo; Mario S Rodrigues; Luís F. Santos ; Lorenz, Katharina; Peres, Marco. Corresponding author: Sousa, Ana S.. "Effect of Annealing on Al Diffusion and its Impact on the Properties of Ga2O3 Thin Films Deposited on c-plane Sapphire by RF Sputtering". 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.12823.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Optimizing Gallium Oxide Thin Films for Electro-Optical Applications". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2024. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/meft21/dissertacao/2254153455763503.

Other

Software
  1. Charlie James Paxman; Sousa, Ana S.; Raúl Varela Ferrando; Andi Messingschlager; Adrien Matta; Jérémie Dudouet. "EUROLABS Advanced Training: Open Science 2024 -- Fork Bandits analytical code". 2025.
    10.5281/ZENODO.14604956
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/19 ß-Ga2O3 nanomembrane devices obtained by ion-beam-assisted exfoliation WOCSDICE - EXMATEC 2025
(Cádiz, Spain)
2025/06/10 Enhancing Optical and Electrical Properties of Ga2O3 by Ion Implantation: From Optically Active Centers to Plasmonic Nanostructures REI22
(Madrid, Spain)
2024/09/04 Gallium Oxide Thin Films Deposited by RF-Sputtering for Electro-Optical Applications CMD31
(Braga, Portugal)
2024/07/19 Modifying Optical Properties of ß-Ga2O3 by Ion Implantation and Irradiation AOP 2024
(Aveiro, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/10/12 - Current Young Minds' Movie Night 4th edition: an outreach event in Physics directed at a general audience, consisting in the screening of a movie and followed by a talk by a Physicist on the topic. (2024/10/12) Young Minds Lisbon, Portugal
2024/09/04 - Current Round table "Bridging the Gap: Young Physicists in Industry and Research", in the context of the CMD31 conference (2024/09/04)
Round table (Member of the Organising Committee)
Young Minds Lisbon, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/06/16 - 2025/06/20 WOCSDICE - EXMATEC: 48th Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits held in Europe and 19th Expert Evaluation and Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Technologies.
Conference
WOCSDICE - EXMATEC 2025
2025/06/08 - 2025/06/13 REI22 is an international conference dedicated to research relating to radiation effects in insulators and non-metallic materials.
Conference
REI22
2025/06/04 - 2025/06/06 13th EPS Young Minds Leadership Meeting
Meeting
Young Minds Leadership Meeting
Young Minds Lisbon, Portugal
2024/11/24 - 2024/11/29 The goal of the Advanced Training course is to convey basic principles of Open Science and the F.A.I.R. principles, as well as to demonstrate commonly used tools to apply them successfully.
Workshop
EURO-LABS Advanced Training: Open Science and Data Management
2024/09/01 - 2024/09/06 CMD31 (General Conference of the Condensed Matter) is an international conference covering all aspects of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Physics, including both hard and soft condensed matter physics, liquid physics, biophysics, materials science, quantum physics, low temperature physics, strongly correlated materials, semiconductor physics, magnetism, superconductivity, surface and interface physics, electronic, optical, structural, and mechanical properties of materials, acoustics, disordered media, applications of materials, among others.
Conference
CMD31
Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2024/07/16 - 2024/07/19 The 6th International Conference on Application of Optics and Photonics aims to discuss the recent progress and to establish a view on the future of all fields of optics and photonics.
Conference
AOP 2024
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/07/10 - 2022/07/15 The 22nd International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials (IBMM) gathers scientists from all over the world to exchange ideas, share new knowledge and future trends of ion beam technologies on different topics related to modification by ion beams with relevant applications in advanced materials, nanotechnology, nuclear materials, information and communication technologies.
Conference
IBMM-2022
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/01/01 - Current Portuguese Physical Society Member
2024/01/01 - Current Young Minds Lisboa Treasurer

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/01/27 - 2025/01/31 Beamtime at the Laboratory for Ion Beam Interactions as part of the "Plasmonic Nanoparticle Formation in Ga2O3 Thin Films by Ion Implantation" proposal, funded by the ReMade-at-ARI project. Institut Ruder Boskovic Zavod za fizicku kemiju, Croatia
Distinctions

Award

2025 IMEYMAT student prize for the best poster contribution at WOCSDICE-EXMATEC 2025
2024 Academic Excellence Diploma 2023/2024
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 Academic Merit Diploma 2022/2023
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 Academic Excellence Diploma 2021/2022
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 Academic Merit Diploma 2020/2021
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020 Academic Merit Diploma 2019/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 Best High School Student of the Valongo School Group