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Hugo Filipe de Almeida Pires. Completed his Doctorate Degree in Physics in 2015/10/14 at Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and his Master Degree in Technological Physics Engineering in 2008/10/14 by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Worked as a posdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Optics and Photonics Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona - Spain, in the Attosecond Ultrafast Optics group (AUO) from 2014 to 2015. He is a Postdoc Researcher since 2016 and an Assistant Researcher since 2019 in Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear. He is an Invited Assistant Professor at IST's Physics Department since 2020, and was awarded the "Excellent Teacher" distinction at IST in 2020, 2022 and 2023. He published over 20 articles in journals, supervised four MSc theses, co-supervised one Ph.D. thesis and is supervising one PhD thesis presently. He works in the area of Exact Sciences with emphasis on Physical Sciences, namely on Optics. He acts as a reviewer for manuscripts for journals in the fields of lasers and photonics. The most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological output are parametric gain; OPCPA; high power lasers; mid-Infrared and ultrashort pulses.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Hugo Filipe de Almeida Pires

Citation names

  • Pires, H.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
321D-854E-C4AC
Education
Degree Classification
2015/10/14
Concluded
 Doctorate Degree in Physics (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Intense ultra-short laser pulse generation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with Merit
2003/09/22 - 2008/10/15
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Fisica Tecnologica (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Physics
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"OPCPA and new amplification techniques" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2003
Concluded
 Ciências naturais (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundaria Eng. Acacio Calazans Duarte , Portugal
 18/20
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/12 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2019/03/11 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2014/06/01 - 2015/12/18 Postdoc (Research) Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain
2005/06/01 - 2007/09/01 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/04/01 - 2014/05/31 Phd-student Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2008/11/13 Master thesis student Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019 - Current LASERLAB-EUROPE V
871124
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2017/08/01 - Current Laserlab Portugal
P2020-012224
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/09/01 - 2025/12/31 Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion
LA/P/0061/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0061/2020
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear
LA/P/0061/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0061/2020
UID/FIS/50010/2019
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015 - 2019 LASERLAB-EUROPE IV (H2020 Integrating Activity)
654148
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2013/03/31 OPCPA AT VULCAN 10PW AND AT L2I
SFRH/BD/45531/2008
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - LA 10 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/FIS/LA0010/2011
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

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

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/01/01 - 2011/06/30 High energy few-cycle laser pulses: extending the limits of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification
PTDC/FIS/71101/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Vaz, G.; Pires, H.; Hussain, M.; Williams, G. O.; Fajardo, M.; Figueira, G.. "Investigation of spectral broadening in different dispersion regimes and low-order harmonic generation in the mid-infrared". Qeubec, 2022.
    10.1364/up.2022.tu4a.24
  2. Pires, Hugo; João, Celso P.; Galletti, Mario; Hariton, Victor; Alves, Joana; Gomes, Nuno; Figueira, Gonçalo. "Few-cycle, CEP stable, high power mid-infrared laser system". Paper presented in Applications of Optics and Photonics 2019, 2019.
    10.1117/12.2526968
  3. Elu, U.; Baudisch, M.; Steinle, T.; Pires, H.; Tani, F.; Frosz, M.H.; Kottig, F.; et al. "Single-cycle, high-power, mid-IR optical parametric chirped amplifier". Paper presented in Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources 2018, 2018.
    10.1364/MICS.2018.MW1C.8
  4. Baudisch, M.; Elu, U.; Pires, H.; Tani, F.; Frosz, M.H.; Ko¨ttig, F.; Ermolov, A.; Russell, P.S.J.; Biegert, J.. "Single-cycle, 9.6-W, mid-IR pulses via soliton selfcompression from a 21-W OPCPA at 3.25 µm and 160 kHz". Paper presented in Advanced Solid State Lasers 2017, 2017.
    10.1364/ASSL.2017.AM4A.7
  5. Matthias Baudisch; Hugo Pires; Ugaitz Elu; Hideki Ishizuki; Takunori Taira; Jens Biegert. "44 µJ, 160 kHz, few-cycle mid-IR OPCPA with chirp reversal". Paper presented in CLEO: Science and Innovations 2016, 2016.
    10.1364/cleo_si.2016.stu3i.5
  6. Benjamin Wolter; Michael G. Pullen; Anh-Thu Le; Matthias Baudisch; Michele Sclafani; Hugo Pires; Michael Hemmer; et al. "Sub-Ångström Scale Imaging of Aligned Acetylene". Paper presented in CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2015, 2015.
    10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.fth4c.7
  7. Celso João; Hugo Pires; Gonçalo Figueira. "Hybrid diode-pumped Yb:CaF2/YAG laser system delivers 20 mJ pulses at 1050 nm for Nd:glass amplifier seeding". Paper presented in Advanced Solid State Lasers 2014, 2014.
    10.1364/assl.2014.am5a.45
  8. Gonçalo Figueira; Tayyab Imran; Celso P. João; Hugo Pires; Luís Cardoso; Manuel Filipe P. C. Martins Costa. "Generation of ultrabroadband energetic laser pulses by noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification". Paper presented in 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting and 11th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Applications, 2013.
    10.1117/12.2028303
  9. Celso João; Hugo Pires; Luís Cardoso; Tayyab Imran; Goncalo Figueira. "Dispersion compensation by two-stage compression of a millijoule Yb:CaF2 amplifier". Paper presented in Advanced Solid State Lasers 2013, 2013.
    10.1364/assl.2013.atu3a.11
  10. Pires, H.; Galimberti, M.; Figueira, G.; Pires, Hugo; Galimberti, Marco; Figueira, Gonçalo. "Numerical simulations for OPCPA crystals: YCOB performance and use in different regimes". Paper presented in International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, Braga, 2011.
    10.1117/12.894536
  11. Castanheira, Ana; Cardoso, Luís; Pires, Hugo; Figueira, Gonçalo; Castanheira, A.; Cardoso, L.; Pires, H.; Figueira, G.. "High dynamic range measurement of the pulse contrast in a Ti:sapphire/Nd:glass multiterawatt laser". Paper presented in International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics 2011, 2011.
    10.1117/12.894534
  12. Pires, Hugo; Cardoso, Luis; Wemans, Joa~o; Joa~o, Celso; Figueira, Gonc¸alo. "OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the non-linear crystal". Paper presented in 1st International Conference on Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI 2009), Brasov, 2010.
    Published • 10.1063/1.3426062
  13. Cardoso, L.; Figueira, G.; Pires, H.; Wemans, J.. "Experimental results on ultra-broadband OPCPA". Paper presented in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2007.
    10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386344
Conference poster
  1. Pires, H.. "YCOB-based, mJ-level, 20 fs OPCPA laser system". Paper presented in Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications 2019, 2019.
    10.1364/assl.2019.jtu3a.37
  2. Pires, Hugo; Galimberti, Marco; Figueira, Gonçalo. "OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the non-linear crystal". Paper presented in Ultrafast Optics, 2013.
  3. Pires, Hugo; Galimberti, Marco; Figueira, Gonçalo. "OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the nonlinear crystal". Paper presented in International conference on Ultra-intense Laser Interaction Science, 2011.
  4. Pires, H.; Divoky, M.; Hernandez-Gomez, C.; Galimberti, M.; Lyachev, A. ; Musgrave, I.. "Characterization of a 34 fs Broadband Laser Source at 900 nm". Paper presented in International Committee on Ultra Intense Lasers Conference, 2010.
  5. Pires, H.; Cardoso, L.; Wemans, J.; Joao, C.P.; Figueira, G.. "OPCPA modelling using YCOB as the nonlinear crystal". Paper presented in Ciência 2010, 2010.
  6. Pires, H.; Luis Cardoso; Joao Wemans; Goncalo Figueira. "OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the non-linear crystal". Paper presented in 1st International Conference on Light at Extreme Intensities (LEI 2009), 2010.
  7. Pires, H.; Cardoso, L.; Figueira, G.. "High peak and average power operation using yttrium calcium oxyborate: a numerical evaluation". Paper presented in Light at extreme intensities -Opportunities and technological issues of the extreme light infrastructure, 2009.
  8. Pires, H.; Cardoso, L.; Wemans, J.; Joao, C.P.; Figueira, G.. "High Efficiency Diode-Pumped Parametric Amplification of Optically Synchronized Pulses". Paper presented in International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers & High Power Lasers, 2008.
  9. Figueira, G.; Lopes, N.; Pires, H.; Fernandes, M; Wemans, J.; Cardoso, L.; Imran, T.; Cornet, N. "Focal Spot Improvement of a Chirped Pulse Amplification Laser by Using a Single Actuator Mechanical Deformable Mirror". Paper presented in International Symposium on Gas Flow and Chemical Lasers & High Power Lasers, 2008.
Journal article
  1. Gonçalo Vaz; Joana Alves; Victor Hariton; Celso P. João; João Marques; David Cristino; Hugo Gomes; et al. Corresponding author: Hugo Pires. "Multidisciplinary Laser Facility Driven by New-Generation High-Repetition Laser". Photonics (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/11/12/1157.
    10.3390/photonics11121157
  2. HUSSAIN, MUKHTAR; Antunes, André Mesquita; Vaz, Gonçalo; Alves, Joana; Pires, Hugo; Imran, Tayyab; Peres, Marco; et al. "Anisotropic below bandgap harmonic generation in $\beta$-gallium oxide". Optics Express (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.525696.
    Accepted • 10.1364/oe.525696
  3. Hugo Pires; Joana Alves; Victor Hariton; Mario Galletti; Celso João; Gonçalo Figueira. "Ultrabroadband OPA in YCOB with a sub-ps Pump Source". Photonics (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10030253.
    10.3390/photonics10030253
  4. Joana Alves; Hugo Pires; Celso P. João; Gonçalo Figueira. "Multi-mJ Scaling of 5-Optical Cycle, 3 µm OPCPA". Photonics 8 11 (2021): 503-503. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110503.
    10.3390/photonics8110503
  5. Mario Galletti; Pires, H.; Victor Hariton; Joana Alves; Pedro Oliveira; Marco Galimberti; Goncalo Figueira. "Ultra-broadband near-infrared NOPAs based on the nonlinear crystals BiBO and YCOB". High Power Laser Science and Engineering 8 (2020):
    Published • 10.1017/hpl.2020.27
  6. Hariton, Victor; João, Celso Paiva; Pires, Hugo; Galletti, Mario; Figueira, Gonçalo. "Thermal lens analysis in a diode-pumped 10 Hz 100 mJ Yb:YAG amplifier". High Power Laser Science and Engineering 8 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2020.11.
    Published • 10.1017/hpl.2020.11
  7. Galletti, Mario; Künzel, Swen; Alves, Joana; Hariton, Victor; Pires, Hugo; João, Celso Paiva; Figueira, Gonçalo; Dias, João Mendanha. "Direct refractive index retrieval from interferometry measurements". Review of Scientific Instruments 91 4 (2020): 045111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5129093.
    10.1063/1.5129093
  8. Hussain, M.; Pires, H.; Boutu, Willem; Franz, Dominik; Nicolas, Rana; Imran, Tayyab; Merdji, Hamed; Fajardo, Marta; G. O. Williams. "Controlling the non-linear optical properties of MgO by tailoring the electronic structure". Applied Physics B (2020):
    10.1007/s00340-020-7393-7
  9. Galletti, Mario; Pires, Hugo; Hariton, Victor; João, Celso Paiva; Künzel, Swen; Galimberti, Marco; Figueira, Gonçalo. "High efficiency second harmonic generation of nanojoule-level femtosecond pulses in the visible based on BiBO". High Power Laser Science and Engineering 7 (2019):
    10.1017/hpl.2018.72
  10. Imran, T.; Hussain, M.; Pires, H.; Joao, C.P.. "Pulse compression of white-light continuum generated at 1053 nm in bulk sapphire: An experimental study". Laser Physics Letters 15 11 (2018):
    10.1088/1612-202X/aadf60
  11. Jayanath Koliyadu; Swen Künzel; Thomas Wodzinski; Barbara Keitel; Joana Duarte; Gareth Williams; Celso João; et al. "Optimization and Characterization of High-Harmonic Generation for Probing Solid Density Plasmas". Photonics 4 2 (2017): 25-25.
    10.3390/photonics4020025
  12. Gonçalo Figueira; Joana Alves; João M. Dias; Marta Fajardo; Nuno Gomes; Victor Hariton; Tayyab Imran; et al. "Ultrashort pulse capability at the L2I high intensity laser facility". High Power Laser Science and Engineering 5 (2017):
    10.1017/hpl.2017.2
  13. Elu, U.; Baudisch, M.; Pires, H.; Tani, F.; Frosz, M.H.; Köttig, F.; Ermolov, A.; et al. "High average power and single-cycle pulses from a mid-IR optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier". Optica 4 9 (2017): 1024-1029.
    10.1364/OPTICA.4.001024
  14. Pullen, M.G.; Wolter, B.; Wang, X.; Tong, X.-M.; Sclafani, M.; Baudisch, M.; Pires, H.; et al. "Transition from nonsequential to sequential double ionization in many-electron systems". Physical Review A 96 3 (2017):
    10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033401
  15. M. G. Pullen; B. Wolter; A. -T. Le; M. Baudisch; M. Sclafani; H. Pires; C. D. Schröter; et al. "Influence of orbital symmetry on diffraction imaging with rescattering electron wave packets". Nature Communications 7 (2016): 11922-11922.
    10.1038/ncomms11922
  16. M Baudisch; H Pires; H Ishizuki; T Taira; M Hemmer; J Biegert. "Sub-4-optical-cycle, 340 MW peak power, high stability mid-IR source at 160 kHz". Journal of Optics 17 9 (2015): 094002-094002.
    10.1088/2040-8978/17/9/094002
  17. H. Pires; M. Baudisch; D. Sanchez; M. Hemmer; J. Biegert. "Ultrashort pulse generation in the mid-IR". Progress in Quantum Electronics 43 (2015): 1-30.
    10.1016/j.pquantelec.2015.07.001
  18. João CP; Pires H; Cardoso L; Imran T; Figueira G. "Dispersion compensation by two-stage stretching in a sub-400 fs, 1.2 mJ Yb:CaF2 amplifier.". (2014):
    10.1364/OE.22.010097
  19. Baudisch, M.; Hemmer, M.; Pires, H.; Biegert, J.; M. Baudisch; M. Hemmer; H. Pires; J. Biegert. "Performance of MgO:PPLN, KTA, and KNbO3 for mid-wave infrared broadband parametric amplification at high average power". Optics Letters 39 20 (2014): 5802-5805.
    10.1364/OL.39.005802
  20. Pires, H.; Galimberti, M.; Figueira, G.; Hugo Pires; Marco Galimberti; Gonçalo Figueira. "Numerical evaluation of ultrabroadband parametric amplification in YCOB". Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 31 11 (2014): 2608-2614.
    10.1364/JOSAB.31.002608
  21. Pires, H.; Cardoso, L.; Wemans, J.; João, C.; Figueira, G.. "OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the non-linear crystal". AIP Conference Proceedings 1228 (2010): 264-271.
    10.1063/1.3426062
  22. Cardoso, L.; Pires, H.; Figueira, G.. "Increased bandwidth optical parametric amplification of supercontinuum pulses with angular dispersion". Optics Letters 34 9 (2009): 1369-1371.
    10.1364/OL.34.001369
  23. Figueira, G.; Wemans, J.; Pires, H.; Lopes, N.; Cardoso, L.. "Single adjuster deformable mirror with four contact points for simultaneous correction of astigmatism and defocus". Optics Express 15 9 (2007): 5664-5673.
    10.1364/OE.15.005664
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/12 High Peak and average power near and mid-IR lasers via ultrafast OPCPA: Developments and multidisciplinary applications (plenary talk) Física 2024
SPF (Sociedade Portuguesa da Fisica) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/07/18 Multidisciplinary Applications for High Power Laser Pulses: an Update of the L2I Facility (keynote) AOP 2024 VI International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics
SPOF (Sociedade Portuguesa da Otica e Fotonica) (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/07/17 High peak and average power near and mid-IR lasers via ultrafast OPCPA. The Laboratory of Intense Lasers AOP 2024 VI International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics
SPOF (Sociedade Portuguesa da Otica e Fotonica) (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/07/20 High energy, high average power few optical cycle mid-IR laser system for fundamental physics and biomolecular science (Invited) 5th International Conference on Applications in Optics and Photonics (AOP)
Universidade do Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019 Few-cycle, CEP stable, high power mid-infrared laser system IV International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP 2019)
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/05/08 Ultrabroadband YCOB optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier III International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (2017)
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2014 Development of a ytterbium pumped ycob based broadband opcpa laser system International Commission for Optics (ICO)
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2014 Ultrabroadband noncollinear optical parametric amplification optimization in YCOB II International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics (AOP 2014)
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2013/07/22 Ultrabroadband noncolinear optical parametric amplification optimization in YCOB RIAO/OPTILAS
SPIE (Porto, Portugal)
2011/05/03 OPCPA modeling using YCOB as the nonlinear crystal International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics
SPIE (Braga, Portugal)
2011 Numerical simulations for OPCPA crystals: YCOB performance and use in different regimes International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics
(Braga, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Ultrafast Laser Science
Supervisor
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2024/12/09 Ultra-fast Lasers Towards TRIR Spectroscopy
Supervisor of João Marques
 Engenharia Fisica Técnológica (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2024/12/04 Nonlinear optics for Ultrashort High Intensity Pulse Amplification
Supervisor of David Cristino
 Engenharia Fisica Tecnologica (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2017/09/15 - 2023/09/19 Ultrafast mid-IR tunable laser sources
Co-supervisor of Joana Alves
 Nonlinear Optics (PhD)
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2020/11/16 - 2021/12/09 Characterization of ultrashort mid infrared laser pulses using frequency resolved optical gating
Supervisor
 Technical Physics Engineering (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2020/10/27 - 2021/12/07 Nonlinear optics with ultrashort mid-infrared laser pulses
Supervisor
 Technical Physics Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - 2024/09/20 Member of the local organizing committee for the ECLIM 2024 conference held in Lisbon (2024/09/16 - 2024/09/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Training School on Laser Applications for Biology and Biomolecular Systems
Workshop
 Training School on Laser Applications for Biology and Biomolecular Systems
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016 - Current JRA2 ILAT- Innovative Laser Technologies 2nd Meeting
Meeting
 JRA2 ILAT- Innovative Laser Technologies 2nd Meeting
LASERLAB-EUROPE, Germany
2024/07/14 - 2024/07/20 Lectured participants (MSc/PhD engineering and physics students) of the summer school on intense lasers and their applications, namely for nuclear fusion and laser-plasma interaction purposes.
Workshop
 Plasmasurf 2024
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2022/07/10 - 2022/07/15 Lectured participants (BSc/MSc engineering and physics students) of the summer school on intense lasers and their applications, namely for nuclear fusion and laser-plasma interaction purposes.
Workshop
 Plasmasurf 2022
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2018/09/05 - 2018/09/07 Lecturer in laser training focused scientific training "Ação de Formação em Lasers" for high school teachers.
Other
 Ação de Formação em Lasers
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Transformation Guide for Teaching Assistants (of STEM students)
Workshop
 Teaching STEM students - Transformation Guide for Teaching Assistants 1st Ed
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/05/22 Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy: instrumentation and application to the study of carrier dynamics in graphene
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tânia Raquel Mendes Ribeiro (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Portugal
2024/11/29 All-glass metasurfaces for ultra high-power lasers
(Thesis) Arguer
 Maria Beatriz Canudo Morgado da Silva Oliveira (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2022/11/30 Production of single-cycle laser pulses through nonlinear pulse compression
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Mariana Da Cunha e Silva (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2025/04/01 - Current IPFN's Electoral committee has as its roles: receiving and verifying application for presidency of IPFN, constituting the electoral roll calls, the setting up and testing of the electronic voting system, and supervising and validation of the election process and results
Member
 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2022/02/15 - Current GoLP_IN is the internship program of GoLP open to all student of IST. Internships consist on the participation over a semester in topics that GoLP researchers submit to calls. The program takes place every semester, has a selection committee, an Onboarding day with soft-skills, and ECTS certification if criteria are met. As coordinator of this program, I am a permanent member of the selection committee, oversee the topic submission and dissemination, and ensure certification eligibility.
Coordinator
 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 8.75/9) Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental (Licenciatura) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Taught Practical/Problem classes in the course "Optica e Lasers" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 8.94/9). Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Física Experimental Avançada II" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 8.75/9) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 8.62/9) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Taught Practical/Problem classes in the course "Optica e Lasers" as Invited Assistant Professor. (Student evaluation: 8.88/9) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 9/9) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Taught Practical/Problem classes in the course "Optica e Lasers" as Invited Assistant Professor. (Student evaluation: 8.75 /9) Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Taught Practical/Problem classes in the course "Electromagnetismo e Optica" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 8.31/9) Electromagnetism and Optics (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Taught Practical/Problem classes in the course "Optica e Lasers" as Invited Assistant Professor. (Student evaluation: 8.62 /9) Optica e Lasers (Mestrado) Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2020/10/08 - 2020/12/10 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental" as Invited Assistant Professor (Student evaluation: 9/9) Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/02/18 - 2019/05/28 Taught Practical/Problem solving classes in the course "Electromagnetismo e Optica" as a Collaborative Professor "Docente Colaborador" (Student evaluation: 8.38/9) Electromagnetismo e Optica Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/09/28 - 2018/11/09 Taught Laboratorial classes in the course "Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental" as a Collaborative Professor "Docente Colaborador" (Student evaluation: 9/9) Laboratório de Introdução à Física Experimental (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 Excelency in teaching
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2020 Excelency in teaching
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Article highlighted on the cover/front page of MDPI Photonics
MDPI AG, Switzerland
2003 Participation on the IPHO 03
IPHO - International Physics Olimpics, Poland