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Completed the Mestrado integrado in Technological Physics Engineering in 2018/11/01 by Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Attends the Doutoramento in Engineering Physics on Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Published 6 articles in journals, including Nature Photonics. Has received 1 awards. Participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project. His work concerns the production of superradiant and coherent radiation from typical plasma physics setups.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Bernardo Farinha Malaca

Citation names

  • Malaca, Bernardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6718-4631-DB51
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0472-3500

Email addresses

  • bernardo.malaca@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/12/20
Concluded
 Engineering Physics (Doutoramento)
Major in Plasma Physics
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Spatiotemporal control of laser-plasma accelerators" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09/15 - 2018/11/01
Concluded
 Technological Physics Engineering (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Plasma Physics
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Machine learning controlled plasma based acceleration" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19/20
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - 2023/12/31 Spatiotemporal control of laser-plasma accelerators
PD/BD/150409/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
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
2023/02/01 - 2024/07/31 Sistema para optimização multi-paramétrica para fonte de raios-x compacta
2022.06871.PTDC
10.54499/2022.06871.PTDC
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/05/02 - 2024/05/01 Contribuição portuguesa para a experiência AWAKE no CERN
CERN/FIS-TEC/0034/2021
10.54499/CERN/FIS-TEC/0034/2021
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
2020/07/01 - 2023/03/31 Portuguese participation in AWAKE
CERN/FIS-TEC/0017/2019
10.54499/CERN/FIS-TEC/0017/2019
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
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Malaca, Bernardo; Miguel José Ferreira Pardal; Dillon Ramsey; Palastro, John; Jacob Pierce; Warren B. Mori; Ricardo Parreira de Azambuja Fonseca; Igor Andryiash; Jorge Miguel Ramos Domingues Ferreira Vieira. Corresponding author: Malaca, Bernardo. "Superradiance from superluminal nonlinear plasma wakefields". Paper presented in 48th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 2022.
  2. Malaca, Bernardo; Jorge Miguel Ramos Domingues Ferreira Vieira; Ricardo Parreira de Azambuja Fonseca. "Machine learning controlled laser wakefield acceleration simulations". Paper presented in 45th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, 2018.
Journal article
  1. Kale Weichman; K.G. Miller; B. Malaca; W.B. Mori; J.R. Pierce; D. Ramsey; J. Vieira; M. Vranic; J.P. Palastro. "Analytic pulse technique for computational electromagnetics". Computer Physics Communications 298 (2024): 109096-109096. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109096.
    10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109096
  2. B. Malaca; M. Pardal; D. Ramsey; J. R. Pierce; K. Weichman; I. A. Andriyash; W. B. Mori; et al. "Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator". Nature Photonics (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01311-z.
    10.1038/s41566-023-01311-z
  3. Jacob R. Pierce; John P. Palastro; Fei Li; Bernardo Malaca; Dillon Ramsey; Jorge Vieira; Kathleen Weichman; Warren B. Mori. "Arbitrarily structured laser pulses". Physical Review Research (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013085.
    10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013085
  4. D. Ramsey; A. Di Piazza; M. Formanek; P. Franke; D. H. Froula; B. Malaca; W. B. Mori; et al. "Exact solutions for the electromagnetic fields of a flying focus". Physical Review A (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.013513.
    10.1103/PhysRevA.107.013513
  5. Ramsey, D.; Malaca, B.; Di Piazza, A.; Formanek, M.; Franke, P.; Froula, D. H.; Pardal, M.; et al. "Nonlinear Thomson scattering with ponderomotive control". Physical Review E 105 6 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreve.105.065201.
    10.1103/physreve.105.065201
  6. Palastro, J. P.; Malaca, B.; Vieira, J.; Ramsey, D.; Simpson, T. T.; Franke, P.; Shaw, J. L.; Froula, D. H.. "Laser-plasma acceleration beyond wave breaking". Physics of Plasmas 28 1 (2021): 013109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0036627.
    Published • 10.1063/5.0036627
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/21 Coherence and superradiance from a plasma-based quasiparticle accelerator (invited) European Advanced Accelerator Conference
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (La Biodola, Isola d' Elba, Italy)
2022/11/07 Superradiance and temporal coherence in the non-linear blowout regime 20th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Brookhaven Accelerator Test Facility (United States)
2020/11/10 Superluminal plasma wakefield acceleration 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Remote (Remote, United States)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/09/27 - 2024/01/31 Plasma Physics and Technologies Engineering Physics (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/06/01 - 2023/08/31 Theoretical and computational work on methods for generating coherent betatron radiation from advanced particle accelerators. University of Rochester - Laboratory for Laser Energetics, United States
Distinctions

Award

2022 PPCF/EPS PhD Poster Prize
European Physical Society, France