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Pedro Viegas completed the MSc in Physics Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Portugal, in 2015. He then earned his PhD degree in École Polytechnique and Université Paris-Saclay, France, in 2018. During his PhD, Pedro developed and used a 2D fluid model for helium plasma jets. His work focused on characterization of helium plasma jets through numerical simulations and comparisons with experiments. The first ever quantitative comparisons between simulations and experiments have been obtained, with excellent agreement, improving the confidence of the community in key physical quantities in plasma jet systems. This work provided a total of 9 peer-reviewed papers, including a topical review. After his PhD, Pedro worked as postdoctoral researcher at DIFFER, The Netherlands, the leading institute in research in renewable fuels, for 2 years, and at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, for 1 year. Besides plasma jets, Pedro became engaged with energy research and specialized in modelling plasmas for sustainable electrochemical conversion. His work allowed to develop a new and faster numerical method for simulation of vibrational kinetics, and to gain insights into the contraction dynamics of the relevant plasmas, that can be crucial for reactor optimization. In March 2022, Pedro started working at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal, developing expertise also in modelling plasma-surface interactions. He won the Junior Researcher Scientific Employment Stimulus competition of the portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, and thus is now a Researcher with increasing engagement in teaching, student supervision and the development of new projects on plasma electrochemical conversion. Pedro's trajectory is marked by international mobility, collaborations with different groups and a strong willingness for comparison and complementarity between simulations and experiments.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Arsénio Nunes Aleixo Viegas
Date of birth
1991/11/11
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Viegas, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6916-820A-BAA0
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3820-3300
Google Scholar ID
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Researcher Id
AAJ-4399-2021
Scopus Author Id
57189596698

Email addresses

  • pedroarsenioviegas@gmail.com (Professional)

Addresses

  • Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Fluids and Plasma Physics
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Molecular Physics
  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Chemical Physics
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Physical Chemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/10 - 2018/12
Concluded
 Plasma physics (Docteur)
Major in Modelling and simulation
Université Paris-Saclay, France

École Polytechnique, France

Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, France
"Electric field characterization of atmospheric pressure Helium plasma jets through numerical simulations and comparisons with experiments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously approved
2017/10 - 2017/10
Concluded
 International school on low-temperature plasma physics : Basics and applications (Diploma de especialização)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2017/10 - 2017/10
Concluded
 Master class on plasma surface interactions (Diploma de especialização)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
2016/03 - 2016/03
Concluded
 Open MP (Diploma de especialização)
Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique, France
2016/02 - 2016/02
Concluded
 MPI (Diploma de especialização)
Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique, France
2015/11 - 2015/11
Concluded
 Advanced Fortran (Diploma de especialização)
Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique, France
2015/11 - 2015/11
Concluded
 Initiation to modelling and simulation of cold plasmas (Diploma de especialização)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
2009/09 - 2015/06
Concluded
 Physics Engineering (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
"Ionization in atmospheric-pressure helium plasma jets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2015/06
Concluded
 Diplôme d’études en langue française (DELF) B2 (Outros)
Fondation Alliance Française, France
2008/12
Concluded
 Certificate in Advanced English (Outros)
British Council Portugal, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/06/15 - Current Researcher (Research) Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2023/06/15 Postdoc (Research) Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2021/01 - 2022/07 Postdoc (Research) Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic
Masarykova univerzita Prírodovedecká fakulta, Czech Republic
2018/10 - 2020/11 Postdoc (Research) DIFFER, Netherlands
DIFFER, Netherlands
2015/10 - 2018/09 Researcher (Research) École Polytechnique, France
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, France
2014/09 - 2015/09 Research Trainee (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2014/03 - 2014/07 Research Trainee (Research) CentraleSupélec, France
Laboratoire Energétique Moléculaire et Macroscopique Combustion, France

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/09 - 2026/08 CANMILK - Carbon Neutral Milk
101069491
Researcher
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
 European Union
Ongoing
2025/01/01 - 2026/06/30 Synergy between plasmas and separation membranes for sustainable CO2 conversion
2023.15276.PEX
10.54499/2023.15276.PEX
Principal investigator
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, France
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/02 - 2025/08 PARADiSE - the Plasma Road to Solar Fuels
PTDC/FIS-PLA/1616/2021
Post-doc
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10 - 2020/11 European H2020 project KEROGREEN: Production of Sustainable aircraft grade Kerosene from water and air powered by Renewable Electricity, through the splitting of CO2, syngas formation and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
763909
Post-doc
DIFFER, Netherlands
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Science with and for Society
Concluded
2018/10 - 2020/11 Power-to-Gas: Enhancing the conversion and energy-efficiency of electrically-driven dissociation of CO2 for fuel synthesis by synergistic integration of plasmolysis, electrolysis and membrane separation
15325
Post-doc
DIFFER, Netherlands
 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Viegas, Pedro; Afonso, José; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco. "Atomic oxygen surface recombination in glow discharge plasmas". Paper presented in 76th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), Ann Arbor, 2023.
    Published
  2. Viegas, Pedro; Afonso, José; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco. "Surface kinetics of oxygen species in glow discharge plasmas". Paper presented in TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON VACUUM, ELECTRON AND ION TECHNOLOGIES, Sozopol, 2023.
    Published
  3. Guerra, Vasco; Afonso, José; Jorge Silveira; Ana Sofia Morillo Candas; Vialetto, Luca; Viegas, Pedro. "PLASMA-SURFACE INTERACTIONS IN OXYGEN-CONTAINING PLASMAS". Paper presented in Plathinium, Antibes, 2023.
    Published
  4. Afonso, José; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco; Viegas, Pedro. "Plasma-induced reversible surface modification and its impact on oxygen heterogeneous recombination". Paper presented in The plasma road to sustainable chemical conversion workshop, Funchal, 2023.
    Published
  5. Viegas, Pedro; Afonso, José; Jorge Silveira; Ana Sofia Morillo Candas; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco. "Atomic wall recombination in oxygen-containing plasmas". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Egmond aan Zee, 2023.
    Published
  6. Viegas, Pedro; Afonso, José; Jorge Silveira; Ana Sofia Morillo Candas; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco. "Atomic wall recombination in oxygen-containing plasmas". Paper presented in Vácuo, Lisboa, 2023.
    Published
  7. Margherita Altin; Viegas, Pedro; Luca Vialetto; Alex van de Steeg; Savino Longo; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Paola Diomede. "The energy cost of N2 dissociation in a microwave discharge: combining modelling and experiments". Paper presented in 75th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), Sendai, 2022.
    Published
  8. Viegas, Pedro; Dmitry Voloshin; C Dias, Tiago; FROMENTIN, Chloé; Silva, Tiago; Alexander Chukalovsky; Yuri Mankelevich; Tatyana Rakhimova; Guerra, Vasco. "Benchmarking between fluid and global models for low-pressure oxygen DC glow discharges". Paper presented in 75th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), Sendai, 2022.
    Published
  9. Luca Vialetto; Alex van de Steeg; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Paola Diomede; Viegas, Pedro. "Modelling chemistry and transport in contracted microwave discharges for CO2 conversion". Paper presented in The XXV Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG), Paris, 2022.
    Published
  10. Margherita Altin; Viegas, Pedro; Luca Vialetto; Alex van de Steeg; Savino Longo; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Paola Diomede. "Integrating the Fokker-Planck approach to vibrational kinetics in a self-consistent N2 plasma global model". Paper presented in The XXV Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG), Paris, 2022.
  11. Luca Vialetto; Viegas, Pedro; Alex van de Steeg; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Savino Longo; Jan van Dijk; Paola Diomede. "Insight into chemistry and transport in CO2 microwave discharges through comparisons between simulations and experiments". Paper presented in European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on Plasma Physics, 2022.
    Published
  12. Luca Vialetto; Alex van de Steeg; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Paola Diomede; Viegas, Pedro. "Modelling chemistry and transport in microwave plasma discharges for CO2 conversion". Paper presented in RIVA 2022 - XII Iberian Vaccuum Conference, Braga, 2022.
  13. Margherita Altin; Pedro Viegas; Luca Vialetto; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Integrating the Fokker-Planck approach to vibrational kinetics in a self-consistent N2 plasma chemistry model". Paper presented in Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2021) Meeting of the American Physical Society, 2021.
  14. Luca Vialetto; Pedro Viegas; Alex van de Steeg; Gerard J. J. van Rooij; Savino Longo; Jan van Dijk; Paola Diomede. "Insight into chemistry and transport in CO2 microwave discharges through comparisons between simulations and experiments". Paper presented in Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2021) Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
    Published
  15. Anne Bourdon; Pedro Viegas; Zdenek Bonaventura. "Recent advances in modeling low-temperature kHz atmospheric pressure plasma jets and their interactions with surfaces". Paper presented in Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2021) Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
  16. Alex van de Steeg; Luca Vialetto; Pedro Viegas; Ana F. Silva; Ashley J. Hughes; Omar Biondo; Paola Diomede; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Gerard J. J. van Rooij. "Thermalization between electrons and heavy species in CO2 microwave plasmas revealed by Thomson scattering". Paper presented in Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2021) Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
    Published
  17. Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Zdenek Bonaventura; Ana Sobota; Olivier Guaitella; Anne Bourdon. "Effect of jet polarity on charging of a dielectric target: simulations and experiments". Paper presented in Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC 2021) Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), 2021.
    Published
  18. Pedro Viegas; Abraham J. Wolf; Peeters, Floran Johan Joseph; Luca Vialetto; Tim Righart; Pieter-Willem C. Groen; Waldo A. Bongers; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Paola Diomede. "Insight into contraction dynamics of microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion: modeling and experiments". Paper presented in 47th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics 2021, 2021.
    Published
  19. Pedro Viegas; Floran J. J. Peeters; Abraham J. Wolf; Alex van de Steeg; Luca Vialetto; Pieter-Willem C. Groen; Waldo A. Bongers; et al. "Spatially-resolving Discharge Parameters in Microwave Plasmas for CO2 Conversion from Atomic Oxygen Emission". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Virtual Conference, 2020.
    Published
  20. Floran Peeters; Gonçalo Raposo; Juehan Gao; Alex van de Steeg; Pedro Viegas; Luca Vialetto; Elizabeth Mercer; et al. "Evaluating chemical kinetic schemes for a CO2 microwave reactor: Using the afterglow with forethought". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Virtual Conference, 2020.
  21. Alex van de Steeg; Pedro Viegas; Floran Peeters; Ana Sovelas da Silva; Paola Diomede; Richard van de Sanden; Gerard van Rooij. "Transport and chemistry in CO2 microwave plasma unravelled by in-situ laser scattering". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Virtual Conference, 2020.
  22. Luca Vialetto; Pedro Viegas; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Fast and accurate simulations of electrons in CO2 using Monte Carlo Flux". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Virtual Conference, 2020.
  23. Anne Bourdon; Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Marlous Hofmans; Olivier van Rooij; Adam Obrusnik; Bart L M Klarenaar; et al. "Characterization of plasma jets interacting with dielectric and metallic targets: comparison between simulations and experiments". Paper presented in 73rd Annual Gaseous Electronics Virtual Conference, 2020.
  24. Luca Vialetto; Pedro Viegas; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Monte Carlo Flux simulations of electrons in CO2". Paper presented in Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases, 2020.
  25. Anne Bourdon; Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Marlous Hofmans; Zdenek Bonaventura; Ana Sobota; Olivier Guaitella. "Dynamical charging of a dielectric surface exposed to a plasma jet: quantitative comparison between experiments and simulations". Paper presented in 72nd Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2019.
    Published
  26. Pedro Viegas; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Self-consistent Fokker-Planck approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 2019.
    Published
  27. Anne Bourdon; Pedro Viegas; Zdenek Bonaventura. "Modeling of low-temperature plasma jets at atmospheric pressure". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 2019.
    Published
  28. Savino Longo; Pedro Viegas; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Paola Diomede. "A diffusion approach to vibrational kinetics of molecules in plasma". Paper presented in European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 2019.
    Published
  29. Pedro Viegas; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Self-consistent diffusion approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics". Paper presented in International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, 2019.
    Published
  30. Anne Bourdon; Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Marlous Hofmans; Ana Sobota; Adam Obrusník; Zdenek Bonaventura; Olivier Guaitella. "Electric field characterization of a plasma-target interaction at atmospheric pressure: modelling and experiments". Paper presented in 71st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2018.
    Published
  31. Xavier Damany; Pedro Viegas; Jean-Michel Pouvesle; Sébastien Dozias; Anne Bourdon; Eric Robert. "Determination of charge density in an atmospheric pressure plasma jet through electric field measurements and simulations". Paper presented in International Conference on Plasma Medicine, 2018.
    Published
  32. Pedro Viegas; Adam Obrusník; Zdenek Bonaventura; Anne Bourdon. "Electric field rebound on He plasma jets with positive and negative polarities on metal and dielectric targets". Paper presented in 70th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2017.
    Published
  33. Pedro Viegas; Xavier Damany; Sylvain Iséni; Jean-Michel Pouvesle; Eric Robert; Anne Bourdon. "Numerical and experimental study on the dynamics of a µs helium plasma gun with various amounts of O2 admixture". Paper presented in 69th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2016.
    Published
  34. Anne Bourdon; Thibault Darny; Eric Robert; François Péchereau; Pedro Viegas; Jean-Michel Pouvesle. "Experimental and numerical study on the dynamics of a µs helium plasma gun discharge with various amounts of N2 admixture". Paper presented in 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2015.
  35. Thibault Darny; Eric Robert; François Péchereau; Pedro Viegas; Sébastien Dozias; Anne Bourdon; Jean-Michel Pouvesle. "Experimental and numerical study of modulation of ionization front propagation velocity in µs helium plasma gun discharge with nitrogen admixture". Paper presented in International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, 2015.
    Published
  36. Anne Bourdon; François Péchereau; Jaroslav Jansky; Pedro Viegas; Zdenek Bonaventura. "Dynamics and structure of atmospheric pressure discharges in capillary tubes". Paper presented in International Colloquium on Plasma Processes, 2015.
    Published
  37. Anne Bourdon; François Péchereau; Pedro Viegas. "Influence of the amount of N2 admixture on the dynamics of atmospheric pressure helium discharges in capillary tubes". Paper presented in 67th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2014.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Jorge Silveira; Ana Sofia Morillo Candas; Guerra, Vasco; Viegas, Pedro. "Atomic wall recombination in oxygen-containing plasmas". Paper presented in The plasma road to sustainable chemical conversion workshop, 2023.
  2. Viegas, Pedro; Jorge Silveira; José Afonso; Ana Sofia Morillo Candas; Luca Vialetto; Guerra, Vasco. "Atomic oxygen interaction with surface materials in oxygen-containing plasmas". Paper presented in 75th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), 2022.
  3. Pedro Viegas; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Self-consistent Fokker-Planck approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics". Paper presented in 31st NNV-Symposium on Plasma Physics and Radiation Technology, 2019.
  4. Pedro Viegas; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Self-consistent diffusion approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics". Paper presented in Workshop on the Exploration of Low-Temperature Plasma Physics, 2018.
  5. Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Marlous Hofmans; Adam Obrusník; Petr Bílek; Zdenek Bonaventura; Ana Sobota; Olivier Guaitella; Anne Bourdon. "Modelling and experimental investigation of plasma-target interaction at atmospheric pressure through electric field characterization". Paper presented in Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, 2018.
  6. Pedro Viegas; Anne Bourdon. "Numerical study on the dynamics of He plasma jets with N2 or O2 admixtures". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 2017.
  7. Pedro Viegas; Xavier Damany; Sylvain Iséni; Jean-Michel Pouvesle; Eric Robert; Anne Bourdon. "Numerical and experimental study on the dynamics of a µs helium plasma gun with various amounts of O2 or N2 admixture". Paper presented in International Conference on Plasma Medicine, 2016.
  8. Pedro Viegas; Luís L. Alves; François Péchereau; Anne Bourdon; Vasco Guerra. "Kinetics of atmospheric-pressure discharges in helium mixtures with nitrogen and oxygen". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 2015.
  9. Adriana Annusova; Philipe Coche; Pedro Viegas; Luís L. Alves; Vasco Guerra. "Discussion on using the approach of a Maxwellian electron energy distribution function from low to moderate pressures in a global kinetic model for pure O2 discharges". Paper presented in International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, 2015.
  10. Pedro Viegas; Anne Bourdon; Luís L. Alves; Vasco Guerra. "Electron kinetics in atmospheric-pressure discharges of helium mixtures with N2 and O2". Paper presented in European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 2015.
  11. Luís L. Alves; Luís Sombreireiro; Pedro Viegas; Vasco Guerra. "Updating the IST-Lisbon electron cross-sections for nitrogen". Paper presented in 66th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, 2013.
Journal article
  1. Pedro Viegas; Jorge Silveira; Tiago Cunha Dias; Olivier Guaitella; Ana Sofía Morillo Candás; Vasco Guerra. "Surface recombination in Pyrex in oxygen DC glow discharges: mesoscopic modelling and comparison with experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ad4055.
    10.1088/1361-6595/ad4055
  2. M Altin; P Viegas; L Vialetto; G J van Rooij; P Diomede. "Spatio-temporal analysis of power deposition and vibrational excitation in pulsed N2 microwave discharges from 1D fluid modelling and experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ad3848.
    10.1088/1361-6595/ad3848
  3. Afonso, José; Vialetto, Luca; Guerra, Vasco; Viegas, Pedro. "Plasma-induced reversible surface modification and its impact on oxygen heterogeneous recombination". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 57 4 (2023): 04LT01. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad039b.
    Published • 10.1088/1361-6463/ad039b
  4. Viegas, Pedro; Dias, Tiago Cunha; Fromentin, Chloé; Chukalovsky, Alexander; Mankelevich, Yuri; Proshina, Olga; Rakhimova, Tatyana; Guerra, Vasco; Voloshin, Dmitry. "Comparison between 1D radial and 0D global models for low-pressure oxygen DC glow discharges". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 32 2 (2023): 024002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/acbb9c.
    Open access • Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/acbb9c
  5. Altin, Margherita; Vialetto, Luca; Longo, Savino; Viegas, Pedro; Diomede, Paola. "A Modified Fokker–Planck Approach for a Complete Description of Vibrational Kinetics in a N2 Plasma Chemistry Model". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 127 1 (2022): 261-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06042.
    Published • 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06042
  6. Altin, M; Viegas, Pedro; Vialetto, L; van de Steeg, A W; Longo, S; van Rooij, G J; Diomede, P. "Energy partitioning in N2 microwave discharges: integrated Fokker–Planck approach to vibrational kinetics and comparison with experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 31 10 (2022): 104003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac93af.
    Open access • 10.1088/1361-6595/ac93af
  7. Vialetto, L; van de Steeg, A W; Viegas, Pedro; Longo, S; van Rooij, G J; van de Sanden, M C M; van Dijk, J; Diomede, P. "Charged particle kinetics and gas heating in CO2 microwave plasma contraction: comparisons of simulations and experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 31 5 (2022): 055005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac56c5.
    Open access • Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/ac56c5
  8. Viegas, Pedro; Slikboer, Elmar; Bonaventura, Zdenek; Guaitella, Olivier; Sobota, Ana; Bourdon, Anne. "Physics of plasma jets and interaction with surfaces: review on modelling and experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 31 5 (2022): 053001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac61a9.
    Open access • Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/ac61a9
  9. Alex van de Steeg; Luca Vialetto; Ana Filipa Sovelas da Silva; Pedro Viegas; Paola Diomede; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Gerard J. J. van Rooij. "The Chemical Origins of Plasma Contraction and Thermalization in CO2 Microwave Discharges". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13 (2022): 1203-1208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03731.
    Published • 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03731
  10. Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Zdenek Bonaventura; Enric Garcia-Caurel; Olivier Guaitella; Ana Sobota; Anne Bourdon. "Quantification of surface charging memory effect in ionization wave dynamics". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04914-8.
    10.1038/s41598-022-04914-8
  11. Alex van de Steeg; Pedro Viegas; Ana Silva; Tom Butterworth; Alexander van Bavel; Joost Smits; Paola Diomede; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Gerard van Rooij. "Redefining the Microwave Plasma-Mediated CO2 Reduction Efficiency Limit: The Role of O–CO2 Association". ACS Energy Letters 6 8 (2021): 2876-2881. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01206.
    Published • 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01206
  12. P Viegas; L Vialetto; A W van de Steeg; A J Wolf; W A Bongers; G J van Rooij; M C M van de Sanden; P Diomede; F J J Peeters. "Resolving discharge parameters from atomic oxygen emission". Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac04bd.
    10.1088/1361-6595/ac04bd
  13. Luca Vialetto; Pedro Viegas; Savino Longo; Paola Diomede. "Benchmarking of Monte Carlo flux simulations of electrons in CO2". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 29 11 (2020): 115006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/abbac3.
    Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/abbac3
  14. Pedro Viegas; Luca Vialetto; Abraham J. Wolf; Floran J. J. Peeters; Pieter-Willem C. Groen; Tim W. H. Righart; Waldo A. Bongers; Mauritius C. M. van de Sanden; Paola Diomede. "Insight into contraction dynamics of microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion from plasma chemistry modelling". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 29 10 (2020): 105014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/abb41c.
    Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/abb41c
  15. Pedro Viegas; Marlous Hofmans; Olivier van Rooij; Adam Obrusník; Bart L. M. Klarenaar; Zdenek Bonaventura; Olivier Guaitella; Ana Sobota; Anne Bourdon. "Interaction of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet with grounded and floating metallic targets: simulations and experiments". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 29 9 (2020): 095011-095011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/aba7ec.
    Open access • 10.1088/1361-6595/aba7ec
  16. Marlous Hofmans; Pedro Viegas; Olivier van Rooij; Bart Klarenaar; Olivier Guaitella; Anne Bourdon; Ana Sobota. "Characterization of a kHz atmospheric pressure plasma jet: comparison of discharge propagation parameters in experiments and simulations without target". Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab6d49.
    10.1088/1361-6595/ab6d49
  17. Pedro Viegas; Anne Bourdon. "Numerical Study of Jet–Target Interaction: Influence of Dielectric Permittivity on the Electric Field Experienced by the Target". Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 40 3 (2019): 661-683. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11090-019-10033-6.
    Published • 10.1007/s11090-019-10033-6
  18. Elmar Slikboer; Pedro Viegas; Zdenek Bonaventura; Enric Garcia-Caurel; Ana Sobota; Anne Bourdon; Olivier Guaitella. "Experimental and numerical investigation of the transient charging of a dielectric surface exposed to a plasma jet". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 28 9 (2019): 095016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab3c27.
    10.1088/1361-6595/ab3c27
  19. Viegas, Pedro; van de Sanden, Mauritius C. M.; Longo, Savino; Diomede, Paola. "Validation of the Fokker–Planck Approach to Vibrational Kinetics in CO2 Plasma". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123 37 (2019): 22823-22831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06576.
    10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06576
  20. Pedro Viegas; Elmar Slikboer; Adam Obrusník; Zdenek Bonaventura; Ana Sobota; Enric Garcia-Caurel; Olivier Guaitella; Anne Bourdon. "Investigation of a plasma–target interaction through electric field characterization examining surface and volume charge contributions: modeling and experiment". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 27 9 (2018): 094002-094002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/aadcc0.
    10.1088/1361-6595/aadcc0
  21. Pedro Viegas; François Péchereau; Anne Bourdon. "Numerical study on the time evolutions of the electric field in helium plasma jets with positive and negative polarities". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 27 2 (2018): 025007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/aaa7d4.
    Published • 10.1088/1361-6595/aaa7d4
  22. Anne Bourdon; Thibault Darny; François Péchereau; Jean-Michel Pouvesle; Pedro Viegas; Sylvain Iséni; Eric Robert. "Numerical and experimental study of the dynamics of aµs helium plasma gun discharge with various amounts of N2 admixture". Plasma Sources Science and Technology 25 3 (2016): 035002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-0252/25/3/035002.
    Published • 10.1088/0963-0252/25/3/035002
Online resource
  1. Pedro Viegas; Marlous Hofmans; Olivier van Rooij; Adam Obrusník; Bart Klarenaar; Zdenek Bonaventura; Olivier Guaitella; Ana Sobota; Anne Bourdon. Corrigendum: Interaction of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet with grounded and floating metallic targets: simulations and experiments (2020 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 29 095011). 2021. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/ac381d.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Viegas, Pedro. "Electric field characterization of atmospheric pressure Helium plasma jets through numerical simulations and comparisons with experiments". PhD, Université Paris-Saclay, 2018. https://www.theses.fr/2018SACLX061/abes.
  2. Viegas, Pedro. "Ionization in atmospheric-pressure Helium plasma jets". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2015. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/844820067124858/dissertacao.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/12 Atomic oxygen surface recombination in glow discharge plasmas 76th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, United States)
2023/09/20 Surface kinetics of oxygen species in glow discharge plasmas (Invited) TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON VACUUM, ELECTRON AND ION TECHNOLOGIES
(Sozopol, Bulgaria)
2023/09/05 Plasma induced reversible surface modification and its impact on oxygen heterogeneous recombination PARADiSE workshop
Universidade da Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
2023/06/30 Atomic wall recombination in oxygen-containing plasmas Vácuo
SOPORVAC (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/06 Benchmarking between 1D radial model and global model for low pressure oxygen glow discharges 75th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC)
(Sendai, Japan)
2022/07/21 Modelling chemistry and transport in contracted microwave discharges for CO 2 conversion The XXV Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG)
(Paris, France)
2022/07/12 Physics of plasma jets and interaction with surfaces: modelling and experiments (Invited) Online Low Temperature Plasma (OLTP) seminar
2022/05/16 Modelling chemistry and transport in microwave plasma discharges for CO2 conversion RIVA 2022 - XII Iberian Vaccuum Conference
(Braga, Portugal)
2021/10 Effect of jet polarity on charging of a dielectric target: simulations and experiments (Invited) 74th Gaseous Electronics Conference 2021 (GEC 2021)
(Huntsville, Alabama, United States)
2021/06 Insight into contraction dynamics of microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion: modeling and experiments (Invited) European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics
(Sitges, Spain)
2020/10 Spatially-resolving discharge parameters in microwave plasmas for CO2 conversion from atomic Oxygen emission Gaseous Electronics Conference
(San Diego, California, United States)
2019/07 Self-consistent Fokker-Planck approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases
(Sapporo, Japan)
2019/06 Self-consistent diffusion approach to CO2 vibrational kinetics International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry
(Napoli, Italy)
2019/03/20 Modelling the vibrational kinetics of CO2 through the Fokker-Planck approach Seminar of N-PRiME group of IPFN
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11 Electric field rebound on He plasma jets with positive and negative polarities on metal and dielectric targets Gaseous Electronics Conference
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)
2016/10 Numerical and experimental study on the dynamics of a µs helium plasma gun with various amounts of O2 admixture Gaseous Electronics Conference
(Bocchum, Germany)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01 - Current Modelling plasma-membrane interactions
Supervisor of Bianca Kolling
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/12 - Current Modelling atomic surface recombination in CO2 plasmas
Supervisor of André Filipe
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020/10 - Current Modelling non-equilibrium plasmas for nitrogen fixation
Co-supervisor of Margherita Altin
 Plasma Physics, Circular Engineering (PhD)
Universiteit Maastricht Faculty of Science and Engineering, Netherlands
2022/03/01 - 2023/12/15 Modelling atomic surface recombination in oxygen-containing plasmas
Supervisor of Jorge Silveira
 Mestrado em Engenharia Aeroespacial (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/06/30 Plasma-surface interactions with membranes for electrochemical conversion
Supervisor of José Afonso
 Mestrado em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2023/06/30 Modelling oxygen ion transport in membranes for plasma-electrolysis systems
Supervisor of Inês Santos
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Química (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/03/01 - 2022/07/31 Numerical studies of the vibrational distribution function of CO in plasmas for CO2 conversion
Supervisor of Gonçalo Cardoso
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/03 - 2022/07 Atomic oxygen recombination at low pressures
Supervisor of José Afonso
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018/10 - 2021/11 Modelling of plasmas for CO2 conversion: electron kinetics, chemistry and transport
Co-supervisor of Luca Vialetto
 Plasma physics (PhD)
DIFFER, Netherlands
2020/07 - 2021/06 Implementation of the Heat Equation in a plasma model for CO2 conversion
Supervisor of Luciano Baldassi
 BSc Hons Science (Degree)
DIFFER, Netherlands

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/01 - 2023/09 The plasma road to sustainable chemical conversion workshop (2023/09/03 - 2033/09/05)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019/10 - 2019/12 Modelling workshop: all about the electron Boltzmann equation (2019/12/02 - 2019/12/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 DIFFER, Netherlands
2016/03 - 2016/10 Participation of Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas in the science festival of École Polytechnique (2016/10/07 - 2016/10/08)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 École Polytechnique, France

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/09/21 - 2023/09/21 Chairman of VEIT session
Conference
 TWENTY-THIRD INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON VACUUM, ELECTRON AND ION TECHNOLOGIES
2023/09/04 - 2023/09/04 Chairman of PARADiSE workshop session
Workshop
 The plasma road to sustainable chemical conversion workshop
2020/10 - 2020/10 Chairman of GEC session Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Characterization
Conference
 Gaseous Electronics Conference

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/12 Plasma-surface interactions in plasmas for CO2 conversion
Supervisor
 Jorge Silveira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/11/08 Monte Carlo Algorithms for Low-Temperature Plasmas
(Thesis) Arguer
 Tiago Cunha Dias (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2020/06 - 2020/06 Selection committee of PhD candidates for “PhD position: Modelling non-equilibrium plasmas for nitrogen fixation at Maastricht University”
Member
 Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Referee for Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics; Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion; Scientific Reports, a Nature Research journal; Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics; Plasma Sources Science and Technology; Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing; Plasma Science and Technology; Plasma Processes and Ploymers; Journal of Applied Physics; Physica Scripta; The European Physical Journal D.

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - 2024/01/31 Low-Temperature Plasmas MSc in Physics Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/05/01 - 2023/07/31 Thermodynamics Physics Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11/21 - 2023/01/31 Low-Temperature Plasmas Mestrado em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/11 - 2022/11 Kinetic Theory Plasma Science and Technology (Diploma de especialização) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2021/09 - 2022/02 Introduction to Plasma Physics (Licenciatura) Masarykova univerzita Prírodovedecká fakulta, Czech Republic
2017/08/20 - 2017/08/26 Workshop in numerical simulation at the Plasapar international plasma summer school for BSc and MSc students (Diploma de especialização)

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021/01 - 2023/07 BSc and MSc theses evaluator at MUNI
Evaluator
 Masarykova univerzita Prírodovedecká fakulta, Czech Republic

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/09/05 - Current CoffeeBreakDown Plasma jets and model validation

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/01/01 - Current Open Plasma Science EPIsciences
Distinctions

Award

2023 Outstanding Reviewer
IOP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, United Kingdom
2022 Outstanding Reviewer
IOP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom

Plasma Science and Technology, United Kingdom
2022 Outstanding Reviewer
IOP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom

Plasma Sources Science and Technology, United Kingdom
2021 Trusted Reviewer
Institute of Physics, United Kingdom