Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Helena Pais
Citation names
- Pais, Helena; Pais, H.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6214-8F3D-E0D8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7247-1950
- Google Scholar ID
- DCNhSLgAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- K-8293-2014
- Scopus Author Id
- 35115367300
Email addresses
- hpais@uc.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Centro de Física da UC. Departamento de Física - Universidade de Coimbra - Rua Larga, 3004-516, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://cfisuc.fis.uc.pt/people.php?oid=5043442 (Professional)
- https://magstarmatter.com (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Nuclear Physics
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2013
Concluded
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PhD in Physics with concentration in Astrophysics (Doutoramento)
University of Tennessee, United States
"Three Dimensional Equation of State for Core-Collapse Supernova Matter" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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3.84 out of 4.0 (suma cum laude) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/10/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal | ||
2022/12/01 - 2023/09/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain |
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain | ||
2019/04/08 - 2022/11/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/01/14 - 2019/03/31 | Advanced Computing Training Program at UT Austin
7401/BMOB_B3-A/2019
Researcher
Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States
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Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência
Ongoing
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2014/04/01 - 2019/01/13 | Neutron star and core-collapse supernova matter
SFRH/BPD/95566/2013
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/07/31 - 2029/07/30 | XMatStar: Compact objects in the new multi-messenger era: exploring matter under extreme conditions
2022.03966.CEECIND/CP1714/CT0004
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/02/15 - 2024/08/14 | Exploring matter under extreme conditions: neutron stars in the multi-messenger era
2022.06460.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/04/08 - 2022/11/30 | SuperMagStar: exploring matter under extreme conditions
CEECIND/03092/2017/CP1460/CT0013
Principal investigator
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018/05/01 - 2021/12/31 | Magnetized neutron star matter: equation of state, properties, and structure of magnetars
PTDC/FIS-NUC/29912/2017
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra
UID/FIS/04564/2019
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/03/01 | Invited talk at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India |
(India)
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2024/02/28 | Invited talk at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa, India |
(India)
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2024/02/20 | Invited talk at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India |
(India)
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2023/09/25 | Invited speaker of the workshop Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields held at ECT*, Trento, Italy | Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields
ECT* (Trento, Italy)
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2023/06/26 | Invited speaker of the workshop Neutron Rich Matter on Heaven and Earth to be held at the Institute of Nuclear Theory (INT), University of Washington, Seattle, USA | Neutron Rich Matter on Heaven and Earth
INT Seattle (Seattle, United States)
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2022/09/26 | Invited speaker of the NuSym22, X International Symposium on Nuclear Symmetry Energy, held in Catania, Italy. | NuSym22
(Catania, Italy)
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2022/05/16 | Invited as a review speaker of the final International PHAROS Conference 2022 held at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. | PHAROS conference 2022
(Rome, Italy)
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2021/09 | Invited for a review talk on the “Nuclear dynamics and thermo- dynamics” session of the GANIL Colloque 2021 | GANIL Colloque 2021
GANIL (Autrans Meaudre en Vercors, France)
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2021/08/24 | Invited lecturer in the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2020 in 2021, held in Sinaia, Romania, with lecture The equation of state for warm stellar matter: light and heavy clusters. | Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2020 in 2021
(Sinaia, Romania)
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2019/12/04 | Invited talk at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA on "Light clusters and pasta phases in warm stellar matter" | Invited talk at Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
Kent State University (Kent, OH, United States)
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2019/09/12 | Light and heavy clusters in core-collapse supernava and neutron star mergers | ENAA 2019
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2019/09/04 | Invited talk at ECT* Workshop on "Light clusters and pasta phases in warm stellar matter" | Light clusters in nuclei and nuclear matter: Nuclear structure and decay, heavy ion collisions, and astrophysics ECT* Workshop
ECT* (Trento, Italy)
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2019/07/08 | Light and heavy clusters in warm stellar matter | Encontro Ciência 2019
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2019/04/17 | Invited as a discussion moderator | Investigating Crust of Neutron Stars (ICONS 2019)
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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2019/04/17 | Light and heavy clusters in warm stellar matter | ICONS: Investigating Crusts of Neutron Stars
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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2018/12/11 | Invited talk at WTPLF 2018 on "Light and heavy clusters in warm stellar matter" | Invited talk at Women in Nuclear and Hadron Theoretical Physics
INFN Genova (Genova, Italy)
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2018/09 | Invited talk at PHAROS WG1+WG2 Meeting on "Light and heavy clusters in warm stellar matter" | Invited talk at PHAROS WG1+WG2 Meeting
CFisUC (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2018/06/12 | Invited talk at IWND 2018 on "Light and heavy clusters in warm stellar matter" | Invited talk at International Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics in heavy-ion reactions
(Huzhou, China)
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2018/04/20 | Invited talk at GANIL on "The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state" | Invited talk at GANIL
GANIL (Caen, France)
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2018/01/24 | Invited talk at the Physics Department UT Knoxville on "The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state" | Invited talk at the Physics Department UT Knoxville
Physics Department UT Knoxville (Knxoville, TN, United States)
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2017/12/21 | Invited talk at the Department of Physics Univ Zagreb on "The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state" | Invited talk at the Department of Physics Univ Zagreb
Department of Physics Univ Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)
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2017/06/21 | Invited talk at the Physics Department of Qufu University, China, on "The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state" | Invited talk at the Physics Department of Qufu University, China
Qufu University (Qufu, China)
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2017/05/12 | The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state | Terceiro Encontrinho sobre Física de Hadrons
(Florianópolis, Brazil)
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2017/03 | The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state | Annual NewCompStar Conference
CAMK (Warsaw, Poland)
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2016/10 | The crust-core transition and the stellar matter equation of state | Nuclear Physics, Compact Stars, and Compact Star Mergers 2016 (NPCSM 2016) long-term Workshop
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyoto, Japan)
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2015/06 | Pasta phases in core-collapse supernova matter | Annual NewCompStar Conference 2015
(Budapest, Hungary)
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2015/03 | Pasta phases in core-collapse supernova matter | XIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics (XIII Hadron Physics)
(Angra dos Reis, Brazil)
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2014/12 | Core-collapse supernova matter: light clusters, pasta phases and phase transitions | Workshop on Nuclear Equation of State for Compact Stars and Supernovae (NEOS2014)
FIAS (Frankfurt, Germany)
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2014/09 | Core-collapse supernova matter: light clusters, pasta phases and phase transitions | Workshop on Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram IV
(Prerow, Germany)
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2014/03 | Nuclear pasta phase in core-collapse supernova matter | NewCompStar 2014 Conference
(Florence, Italy)
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2011/05 | New results on 3D EoS for SN and NS simulations: the phase transition between inner crust and core of NS | Annual CompStar Conference 2011
(Catania, Italy)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2021/10/01 - Current | The equation of state for compact objects: exploring the effect of strong magnetic fields in the inner crust of
neutron stars
Supervisor
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PhD (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal
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2020/09 - 2021/10 | MSc Thesis on sub-saturation EoS for nuclear matter
Co-supervisor
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MSc in Physics (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2017/09 - 2019/10 | Neutron Star Crust: Effects of Rotation and Strong Magnetic Fields
Co-supervisor
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MSc in Physics (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2013/09 - 2017/12 | The clusterization of nuclear matter in a neutron star under strong magnetic fields
Co-supervisor
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PhD in Physics (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020/01 - 2021/07 | Coordinator of the weekly neutron stars group meeting at CFisUC (2020/01)
Meeting (Other)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal |
2018/09 - 2018/09 | Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the PHAROS WG1+WG2 Meeting 2018 (2018/09 - 2018/09)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal |
2016/09 - 2016/09 | Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the NewCompStar School 2016 (2016/09 - 2016/09)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Física, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2019/10/14 - 2019/11/14 | Scientific Mission sponsored by LPC-Caen, France
Other
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Scientific Mission |
2019/05/01 - 2019/05/31 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) at LPC-Caen, France, sponsored by PHAROS COST Action CA16214
Other
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Scientific Mission |
2018/09 - 2018/09 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) grant at FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany sponsored by PHAROS COST Action CA16214
Other
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Scientific Mission
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
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2018/04 - 2018/04 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) grant at LPC-Caen, France, sponsored by PHAROS COST Action CA16214
Other
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Scientific Mission
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen, France
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2017/09 - 2017/10 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) grant at FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany, sponsored by NewCompStar COST Action MP1304
Other
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Scientific Mission
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
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2017/04/01 - 2017/05/31 | Scientific Mission at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, funded by FCT within post-doctoral fellowship
Other
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Scientific Mission |
2016/03 - 2016/04 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) grant at LPC-Caen, France, sponsored by NewCompStar COST Action MP1304
Other
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Scientific Mission
Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Caen, France
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2015/10 - 2015/11 | Short Term Scientifc Mission (STSM) grant at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, sponsored by NewCompStar COST Action MP1304
Other
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Scientific Mission
GSI - Gesellschaft für Schweißtechnik International mbH, Germany
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2015/03/01 - 2015/05/31 | Scientific Mission at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, funded by FCT within post-doctoral fellowship
Other
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Scientific Mission |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2021 | Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Diagram Under Extreme Conditions
(Thesis) Arguer
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Renan Câmara Pereira (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2019/10/02 | Neutron Star Crust: Effects of Rotation and Strong Magnetic Fields
Supervisor
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Ivo Arcanjo Jorge Bene Sengo (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2021/02 - Current | SKA Pulsars Science Working Group | Associate member |
2018 - Current | COST Action CA16214 PHAROS | Member |
2013 - 2017 | COST Action MP1304 NewCompStar | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2019/11/22 - 2022/01 | Estrelas compactas (Compact stars) (Co-instructor) - Course for PhD students, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra | Estrelas compactas (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
2010/01 - 2013/05 | Astronomy Labs | Ast (Bachelor) | University of Tennessee, United States |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2024/01 - Current | Member of the Physics and Mathematics Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced Computing Projects - 4th Edition - A2 Access
Project.
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2024/01 - Current | Member of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced Computing Projects - 4th Edition
- A2 Access Project
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2023/01 - 2023/02 | Member of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced Computing Projects - 3rd Edition
- A2 Access Project
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2023/01 - 2023/02 | Member of the Physics and Mathematics Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced Computing Projects - 3rd Edition - A2 Access
Project.
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2021/09 - 2022/02 | Member of the Physics and Mathematics Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced
Computing Projects - 2nd Edition - A2 Access Project.
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | |
2021/09 - 2022/02 | Member of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Scientific Panel of the FCT Call on Advanced
Computing Projects - 2nd Edition - A2 Access Project
Evaluator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2020/07/27 | Short Article about the Phys. Rev. Lett. paper "Low-density in-medium effects on light clusters from heavy-ion data" that was out on the portuguese media | UC: https://www.uc.pt/fctuc/viewer/article?key=a-cea9a7c7cc |
2017 | Short Article on the nuclear pasta phase within the NewCompStar COST Action | NewCompStar COST Action Outreach forum: https://compstar.uni-frankfurt.de/outreach/short-articles/the-nuclear-pasta-phase/ |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021 - Current | Invited as Guest Editor for the Symmetry Special Issue "Equation of State of Nuclear Matter with Correlations and Cluster Formation" (2073-8994) | |
2021 - Current | Invited as Lead Guest Editor for the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Research Topic on Hyperonic Stars and the Nuclear Symmetry Energy (2296-987X) | |
2020/01 - Current | Referee for International Journal of Modern Physics E (0218-3013) | World Scientific |
2020 - Current | Referee for Physical Review Letters (1079-7114) | American Physical Society |
2020 - Current | Referee for Physical Review C (1089-490X) | American Physical Society |
2020 - Current | Referee for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1365-8711) | Oxford University Press |
2020 - Current | Referee for Physica Scripta (1402-4896) | IOP Publishing |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2018/06 - 2018/09 | Co-orientation of Tiago Custódio and Alexandre Falcão in their Bachelor summer internship | Tiago Custódio and Alexandre Falcão |