Thales Marques Corrêa da Silva (9F11-DE1A-78A0)

Curriculum Vitae

Thales Marques Corrêa da Silva

Thales Silva concluiu o Doutoramento em Doutorado em Física em 2016 pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Mestrado em Mestrado em Física em 2012 pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e Bacharelado em Física em 2010 pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Atualmente, é investigador de pós doutorado no Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa. Tem interesse em Física de Plasmas, em particular plasmas não-colisionais (dinâmica de Vlasov, teoria cinética, instabilidades), astrofísica no laboratório (fontes de radiação coerente, amplificação de campos magnéticos), interação de lasers e plasmas, aceleradores baseados em plasmas, simulações de plasmas (incluindo o uso de computadores de alto desempenho). Publicações selecionadas: T. Silva et al., Stable Positron Acceleration in Thin, Warm, Hollow Plasma Channels, Phys. Rev. Lett., 127, 104801 (2021) R. Zgadzaj, T. Silva et al., Dissipation of electron-beam-driven plasma wakes,” Nat. Comms, 11, 4753 (2020) T. Silva et al., Weibel instability beyond bi-Maxwellian anisotropy, Phys. Rev. E, 104, 035201 (2021) T. Silva et al., Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions, Phys. Rev. Res, 2, 023080 (2020) T. Silva and J. Vieira, Positron acceleration in plasma waves driven by non-neutral fireball beams, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams, 26, 091301 (2023)

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Thales Marques Corrêa da Silva

Citation names

Silva, Thales

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9F11-DE1A-78A0
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3061-6792
Google Scholar ID: XNdaFd8AAAAJ

Email addresses

thales.silva@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Fluids and Plasma Physics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016 Concluded	Doutorado em Física (Doutoramento) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Física, Brazil "Um estudo sobre feixes intensos e não-contínuos de partículas carregadas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012 Concluded	Mestrado em Física (Mestrado) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Física, Brazil "Interação onda-partícula em plasmas magnetizados com propagação da onda em ângulos arbitrários: uma abordagem via mapas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	n/a
2010 Concluded	Bacharelado em Física (Bacharelato) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Instituto de Física, Brazil "Análise da estabilidade do diodo Pierce com efeitos térmicos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	1º

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/07/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
	Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017 - 2024	Investigador / bolseiro de pós doutorado	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	Multi-parametric optimisation framework for compact x-ray imaging sources 2022.06871.PTDC Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023 - Current	Extreme Plasma micoinstabilities: the relativistic maser in plasma astrophysics and in the laboratory 2022.02230.PTDC Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017/03/01 - 2019/10/31	Proposal for a Horizon 2020 Design Study on the “European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications“ (EuPRAXIA) 653782 Researcher	European Commission

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021 - Current	Electron and positron acceleration in self- generated, thin, warm hollow plasma channels E-337 Principal investigator SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas, Portugal
2023/11 - 2024/10	Extreme Plasmas and their Kinetic Instabilities EHPC-REG-2023R02-080 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2023/12 - 2024/02	Benchmark of the CUDA implementation of OSIRIS EHPC-BEN-2023B12-026 Principal investigator
2022/11 - 2024/02	Extreme acceleration and radiation in plasma accelerators EHPC-REG-2022R02-240 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2023/06 - 2023/08	Testing the scalability of the particle-in-cell code OSIRIS on LUMI-C EHPC-BEN-2023B06-028 Principal investigator

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

P. J. Bilbao; R. J. Ewart; F. Assunçao; T. Silva; L. O. Silva. "Ring momentum distributions as a general feature of Vlasov dynamics in the synchrotron dominated regime". Physics of Plasmas (2024): https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0206813.
10.1063/5.0206813
Thales Silva; Jorge Vieira. "Positron acceleration in plasma waves driven by non-neutral fireball beams". Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2023): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.091301.
10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.26.091301
T. Silva; B. Afeyan; L. O. Silva. "Weibel instability beyond bi-Maxwellian anisotropy". Physical Review E (2021): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.035201.
10.1103/PhysRevE.104.035201
T. Silva; L. D. Amorim; M. C. Downer; M. J. Hogan; V. Yakimenko; R. Zgadzaj; J. Vieira. "Stable Positron Acceleration in Thin, Warm, Hollow Plasma Channels". Physical Review Letters (2021): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.104801.
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.104801
Rafal Zgadzaj; T. Silva; V. K. Khudyakov; A. Sosedkin; J. Allen; S. Gessner; Zhengyan Li; et al. "Dissipation of electron-beam-driven plasma wakes". Nature Communications (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18490-w.
10.1038/s41467-020-18490-w
T Silva; F Massimo; J Vieira. "Summary of WG6: Theory and simulations". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1596 (2020): 012051-012051. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1596%2F1%2F012051.
10.1088/1742-6596/1596/1/012051
T. Silva; K. Schoeffler; J. Vieira; M. Hoshino; R. A. Fonseca; L. O. Silva. "Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions". Physical Review Research (2020): https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023080.
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023080
T Silva; A Helm; J Vieira; R Fonseca; L O Silva. "On the use of the envelope model for down-ramp injection in laser-plasma accelerators". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (2020): https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab5298.
10.1088/1361-6587/ab5298
R. W. Assmann et al. "EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report". The European Physical Journal Special Topics 229 24 (2020): 3675-4284. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8.
10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8
Nghiem, P.A.P.; Assmann, R.; Beck, A.; Chancé, A.; Chiadroni, E.; Cros, B.; Ferrario, M.; et al. "Toward a plasma-based accelerator at high beam energy with high beam charge and high beam quality". Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23 3 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082874365&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.031301
M. K. Weikum et al. "Status of the Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA conceptual design study". Journal of Physics: Conference Series (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1350/1/012059.
10.1088/1742-6596/1350/1/012059
P.A.P. Nghiem, et al. "Eupraxia, A Step Toward A Plasma-Wakefield Based Accelerator With High Beam Quality". Journal of Physics: Conference Series (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1350/1/012068.
10.1088/1742-6596/1350/1/012068
M. K. Weikum et al. "EuPRAXIA - a compact, cost-efficient particle and radiation source". 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5127692.
10.1063/1.5127692
P A Walker; P D Alesini; A S Alexandrova; M P Anania; N E Andreev; I Andriyash; A Aschikhin; et al. "Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA design study". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 874 (2017): 012029-012029. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F874%2F1%2F012029.
10.1088/1742-6596/874/1/012029
Thales M. Corrêa da Silva; Felipe B. Rizzato; Renato Pakter; Yan Levin. "Nonlinear stability in the transport of intense bunched beams". Physics of Plasmas 23 11 (2016): 113102-113102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4967708.
10.1063/1.4967708
Thales M. Corrêa da Silva; Renato Pakter; Felipe B. Rizzato; Yan Levin. "Halo formation and emittance growth in the transport of spherically symmetric mismatched bunched beams". Physics of Plasmas 22 2 (2015): 023102-023102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907198.
10.1063/1.4907198
Da Silva, T.M.C.; Pakter, R.; Rizzato, F.B.; De Sousa, M.C.; Caldas, I.L.; Steffens, F.M.; T. M. Corrêa da Silva; et al. "Chaotic particle heating due to an obliquely propagating wave in a magnetized plasma". Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 88 1 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880248717&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
10.1103/PhysRevE.88.013101

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/07/04	The electron cyclotron maser instability in laser-ionized plasmas	49th European Physical Soci- ety Conference on Plasma Physics, (Bordéus, France)
2021/11/10	Plasma waves driven by non-neutral fireball beams with applications to positron acceleration	63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics American Physical Society (Pittsburgh, PA, United States)
2021/03/24	The Weibel instability beyond bi-Maxwellian anisotropy	16th Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop (Virtual)
2020/11/10	Stable positron acceleration in thin, warm hollow plasma channels	62th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (Virtual)
2019/10/31	Stable positron acceleration in self-generated quasi-hollow channels	FACET-II Science Workshop 2019 (Menlo Park, CA, United States)
2019/10/21	The Weibel instability beyond the scaling expected for bi-Maxwellian distribution functions	61th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States)
2019/10/16	Stable positron acceleration in self-generated quasi-hollow channels	2019 ATF Science Planning Workshop (Upton, NY, United States)
2019/09/18	Stable positron acceleration in self-generated quasi-hollow channels	4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy)
2019/07/11	Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions	46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (Milão, Italy)
2019/05/09	Stable positron acceleration in self-generated hollow channels	Laser-Plasma Accelerator Workshop (Split, Croatia)
2019/02/27	Optimization of the density downramp scheme for the LWFA injector	EuPRAXIA Retreat in the Alps – Cutting Edge Research near the Top of Germany (Grainau, Germany)
2018/11/22	Update on the plasma density down-ramp scheme for the LWFA injector	EuPRAXIA Yearly Meeting 2018 and 4th Collaboration Week (Frascati, Italy)
2018/11/08	Anisotropic heating and magnetic field generation due to Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions	60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (Portland, OR, United States)
2018/06/22	LWFA parameter scan for EuPRAXIA using OSIRIS	Laserlab JRA LEPP Meeting (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11/23	Plasma density and laser spot size parameter scan for the laser wakefield injector	EuPRAXIA Yearly Meeting 2017 and 2nd Collaboration Week (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06/21	Plasma density parameter scan for the laser wakefield injector using OSIRIS	1st EuPRAXIA Collaboration Week (Hamburgo, Germany)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Plasma accelerator for unstable particles Co-supervisor of Chiara Badiali	Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2023 - Current	Plasma Instabilities and the quest for exotic distributions, and their (in)stabilities Co-supervisor of Manuel Ratola	Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2022 - 2023	The quest for exotic distributions and their (in)stabilities Co-supervisor of Gabriel do Carmo Rouxinol	Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/06/01 - 2023/03/10	Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop (2023/03/06 - 2023/03/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/09/01 - 2022/05/27	High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics 2022 (HEDLA 2022) (2022/05/23 - 2022/05/27) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017/03/01 - 2017/09/08	Extremely High-Intensity Laser Physics 2017 (ExHILP 2017) (2017/09/05 - 2017/09/08) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2019/03/11 - 2019/03/22	Participation in the "CERN Accelerator School - High gradient wakefield accelerators" Other	CERN Accelerator School - High gradient wakefield accelerators
2018/07/18 - 2018/07/20	Participation in the mini-course "An introduction to turbulence in magnetized plasmas" Other	An introduction to turbulence in magnetized plasmas
2018/06/25 - 2018/06/25	Participation in the "Mini-workshop on strong field physics: from laser to QCD" Workshop	Mini-workshop on strong field physics: from laser to QCD

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023 - Current	EuroCC 2 Portugal	Part of the competence center of Universidade de Lisboa
2021 - 2022	EuroCC Portugal	Part of the competence center of Universidade de Lisboa

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023	Revisor de projeto para "Agence nationale de la recherche" (França)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - 2024/01/31	Descobertas da Física Moderna	(Licenciatura)	Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2023/11/30	Descobertas da Física Moderna	(Licenciatura)	Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/11/30	Descobertas da Física Moderna	(Licenciatura)	Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Physica Scripta
2023 - Current	Journal of Plasma Physics
2023 - Current	Science Advances
2022 - Current	New Journal of Physics
2020 - Current	Communication Physics
2020 - Current	Scientific Reports
2019 - Current	Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
2019 - Current	Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
2019 - Current	Journal of Computational Physics
2018 - Current	Physics of Plasmas