Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- João Cunha de Sequeira Amaral
Citation names
- João Amaral
- J. S. Amaral
- João Sequeira Amaral
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D310-14E3-EF54
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0488-9372
- Researcher Id
- C-6354-2009
- Scopus Author Id
- 35326322300
Email addresses
- jamaral@ua.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- 234370925 (Professional)
Addresses
- CICECO e Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro. Departamento de Física, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Condensed Matter Physics
- Engineering and Technology - Materials Engineering - Materials Engineering
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2009
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Física (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Studies on magnetocaloric and magnetic coupling effects" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado |
2005
Concluded
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Mestrado em Ciência e Engenharia de Materiais (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Estudo de Manganites Modificadas com Iões de Terra Rara" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado (média de 16 valores no ano escolar) |
2002
Concluded
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Física - Ramo Científico (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Estudo experimental da dinâmica crítica do Iodeto de Rubídio e Betaína por espectroscopia Raman" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
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2016/11/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal |
2016/01/01 - 2016/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal | ||
2010/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal | ||
2013/10/13 - 2015/10/13 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Imperial College London Faculty of Natural Sciences, United Kingdom |
Imperial College London Department of Physics, United Kingdom |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2010/09/27 - 2011/01/15 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal |
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal | ||
2010/03/10 - 2010/06/30 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal |
Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2013/03 - 2015/12 | Facing the challenges of characterizing novel thermal materials and processes (Heat@UA) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2011/03 - 2014/08 | Micro and nanostructures with giant magnetostriction: production, optimization and application in multifunctional devices (Strictive4Device) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2010/03 - 2013/09 | MULTIFOX: Nanometric Probing and Modification of Multiferroic Oxides | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2010/01 - 2011/01 | Research on Magnetic and Multiferroic Materials using Radioactive Isotopes at ISOLDE-CERN | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2005/05 - 2008/06 | Materials science and fundamental research on nano-stratified rare earth based compounds for magnetic refrigeration and sensor applications-Unusual martensitic transitions driven by the electronic fluid. | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/02/01 - 2024/01/31 | Demagnetizing-based magnetocaloric refrigeration
PTDC/EME-TED/3099/2020
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
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2017/06/12 - 2022/06/11 | Novel computational tools for the design of magnetic materials for energy applications
IF/01089/2015/CP1302/CT0003
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
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2020/03/01 - 2022/02/28 | Magnetovolume and Spin Hybridization Optimized Magnetic Refrigerants
FCT/DAAD/2019
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany |
Ongoing
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2018/03/01 - 2021/08/31 | Development of SMART nanostructured layers for sensing corrosion in AQUAtic structures
MARTERA/0004/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
2021/02 - 2021/04 | Scalability of a novel Monte-Carlo method in the study of Ising lattices
FCT/CPCA/2020/01
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2016 - 2021 | Smart Green Homes
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-007678
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
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2014/02/01 - 2015/07/31 | Exploring nano-fabrication methods of high coercivity rare-earth free Si-Alnico permanent magnets
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2020/12 | In-silico Thermodynamic description of Heusler compounds applied to magnetocalorics by Monte Carlo simulations starting from ab-initio | Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS) 2020
The European Magnetism Association (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2020/12 | Direct measurement and imaging of magnetocaloric effect inhomogeneities at the microscale in Ni44Co6Mn30Ga20 with infrared thermography | Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS) 2020
The European Magnetism Association (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2018 | Computational Search for Giant Magnetocaloric Materials: Application to MnAs | 21th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM)
(San Francisco, United States)
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2018 | On the optimization of magneto-volume coupling for practical applied field magnetic refrigeration | 21th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM)
(San Francisco, United States)
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2018 | Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Exchange-Coupled BaFe12O19@Fe3O4 Nanocomposite | Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT) 2018
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2018 | A computational approach for the search of giant magnetocaloric materials: application to MnAs | 8th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag 2018
(Darmstadt, Germany)
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2018 | Cooling by sweeping: a new method for solid state ferroic-based refrigeration | 8th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag 2018
(Darmstadt, Germany)
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2018 | Magnetic materials for energy: new computational strategies to find them | Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal: Ciência 2018
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017 | Thermal conductivity of magnetocaloric materials: impact of its temperature dependency on magnetic refrigeration | 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Intermag 2017)
(Pittsburgh, United States)
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2017 | Interdiffusion Processes in High-Coercivity RF-Sputtered Alnico Thin Films on Si Substrates | 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Intermag 2017)
(Pittsburgh, United States)
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2017 | A combined first-principles and Monte Carlo approach to the magnetocaloric effect of magnetovolume-coupled materials | , 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Intermag 2017)
(Pittsburgh, United States)
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2017 | Volume dependence of magnetic properties in Co2Cr1-xYxGa (Y=Ti-Ni) Heusler alloys: a first-principles study | 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Intermag 2017)
(Pittsburgh, United States)
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2017 | High Temperature Giant Magnetoelectric Coupling in BaTiO3:Fe auto-composites | Materiais 2017
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2017 | Comparative Analysis of Structural and Electromagnetic Properties of Cobalt Ferrite With And Without Addition of Niobium Pentoxide | Materiais 2017
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2017 | Locally inducing and mapping of structural transformations in Ni-Mn-Ga | Materiais 2017
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2016 | Optimization of heat exchange in magnetic refrigerators and thermomagnetic motors | 7th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag V
(Torino, Italy)
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2016 | Magnetocaloric effect of compressible Heisenberg lattices: application to Gadolinium | 7th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag V
(Torino, Italy)
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2016 | Ferroic materials for energy generation and thermal management |
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2016 | Novel approaches for the computational design of magnetocaloric materials | Computational Approaches to Sciences & Engineering - CASE 2016
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2015 | Magnetic and morphologic properties of Alnico-based rare-earth free permanent magnets | NanoPT 2015
(Porto, Portugal)
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2015 | Nanocomposite building blocks for groundup designed rare-earth free permanent magnets | ERA-MIN stakeholder conference
(Berlin, Germany)
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2015 | Thermal Conductivity study of (Mn-Fe)P1-xSix magnetocaloric materials with first and second order phase transitions | 20th International Conference on Magnetism (ICM)
(Barcelona, Spain)
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2014 | Revealing and Modelling Interactions or Disorder Effects in Magnetocaloric Materials | CIMTEC 2014
(Parma, Italy)
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2013 | Thermodynamics of first-order phase transition ferroics | DFG priority program SPP 1599 Ferroic Cooling focus meeting
(Darmstadt, Germany)
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2013 | Finite size scaling effects: from exponents to state functions | 12th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference
(Chicago, United States)
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2013 | Interplay between Inter/Intra-slab Magnetic Exchange Interactions in R5Ge4 | DICNMA 2013
(San Sebastian, Spain)
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2012 | The understanding of processing-structure-property relationships in multifunctional ceramics through combinatorial high throughput methods | Materials Science and Technology - MS&T 2012
(Pittsburgh, United States)
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2012 | Recent interest in Magnetoelectric / Multiferroic Hexagonal Ferrites | Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2012)
(Moscow, Russia)
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2012 | Constraints in Assessing Performance of Giant Magnetocaloric Materials for Near Room-Temperature Applications | WCAM 2012
(Beijing, China)
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2012 | Investigation of the formation of Sr3Co2Fe24O41 ferrite”, R. C. Pullar | Microwave Materials and their Applications (MMA 2012)
(Taipei, Taiwan)
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2012 | Giant magnetocaloric materials: disorder effects | Joint European Magnetic Symposia - JEMS 2012
(Parma, Italy)
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2012 | Disorder effects in giant magnetocaloric materials | 5th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag V
(Grenoble, France)
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2012 | Direct measurement of the magnetocaloric effect using an infra-red sensor | 5th IIR/IIF International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature - Thermag V
(Grenoble, France)
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2012 | Magnetic Properties of Hexaferrite Ceramics made from Wastes | 4th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorisation (WasteEng 2012)
(Porto, Portugal)
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2011 | Novel mean-field scaling methods in the study of ferromagnets: clustering effects in LaCaMnO3 and spin hybridization in first-order phase transition Gd5Si2Ge2 |
First International Spring School on McPhase - a Software Suite for Complex Magnetism (Gijón, Spain)
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2010 | Getting the realistic magnetic entropy value for the first order phase transition material with mixed phase state | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2010
(Krakow, Poland)
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2010 | Prediction of realistic entropy behaviour from mixed state magnetization data for first order phase transition materials | 11th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference
(Washington D. C., United States)
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2010 | Room-temperature ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga film developed by co-deposition in rf-magnetron sputtering at low temperatures | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2010
(Krakow, Poland)
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2010 | A mean-field study of ferromagnetic manganites: clustering and disorder effects | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2010
(Krakow, Poland)
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2010 | A novel scaling method for critical phenomena studies of magnetic materials: universality and disorder | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2010
(Krakow, Poland)
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2010 | Novel scaling methods for mean-field and critical phenomena analysis of ferromagnetic materials | Encontro nacional de Física da matéria condensada
(Porto, Portugal)
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2009 | Insights on the magnetism of Tb5Ge4 | IEEE International Magnetics Conference (Intermag)
(Sacramento, United States)
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2009 | On estimating magnetic entropy change from magnetization measurements: thermal and magnetic irreversibility effects of first-order materials | 3rd International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag III)
(Des Moines, United States)
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2008 | On estimating the magnetocaloric effect from magnetization measurements | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS 2008
(Dublin, Ireland)
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2008 | The effect of chemical distribution on the magnetocaloric effect of La-Er-Sr-MnO3/ErMnO3 self-composite | Ninth International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids
(Porto, Portugal)
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2008 | High cooling power of Co-doped PrNi5 compounds exploiting its spin reorientation and magnetic transition over a wide temperature zone | 53rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM)
(Austin, United States)
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2008 | The effect of thermal/magnetic non-equilibrium in estimating the magnetocaloric effect from magnetization measurements | 53rd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM)
(Austin, United States)
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2008 | Local Probe Studies on Highly Distorted Rare-Earth Manganites | Jornadas IFIMUP
(Porto, Portugal)
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2008 | Advances in magnetic and magnetocaloric studies | Jornadas CICECO 2008
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2007 | Local ordering of oxygen in high-Tc superconductors | ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting
(Geneva, Switzerland)
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2007 | Interpreting and modeling magnetocaloric data and properties: Landau theory of phase transitions and mean-field theory | 2nd International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag II)
(Portoroz, Slovenia)
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2007 | Propriedades magnéticas e magnetocalóricas do sistema La0.70-x(Er,Eu)xSr0.30MnO3 | Jornadas IFIMUP
(Porto, Portugal)
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2007 | The magnetocaloric effect of ferromagnetic manganites: modeling and interpretation of properties with Landau and mean field theory | 12th Workshop on Magnetism and Intermetallics
(Porto, Portugal)
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2006 | Magnetic properties of La0.625Sr0.375MnO3-LuMnO3 system | Joint European Magnetic Symposia JEMS06
(San Sebastian, Spain)
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2005 | Development of manganite materials for room-temperature magnetocaloric applications | 1st International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature (Thermag I)
(Montreaux, Switzerland)
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2003 | Charge-Ordering and Magnetoelastic Coupling Effects on the Magnetocaloric Properties of Manganites | European Materials Research Society (EMRS) 2003 Fall Meeting
(Warsaw, Poland)
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2003 | Magnetocaloric Effect in Manganites: Ferromagnetic and Charge-Ordering Effects | Materiais 2003, Costa da Caparica
(Costa da Caparica, Portugal)
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2003 | Magnetocaloric Effect in Manganites | 10th Workshop on Magnetism and Intermetallics
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2015 - Current | Simulações de trocas de calor em processos magnetotérmicos
Supervisor of António Perdigão Lopes
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Plano Doutoral em Engenharia Física (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2021/05/01 - 2025/04/30 | Removal of pesticides from wastewaters through combined adsorption and sunlight-induced photodegradation using magnetic nanomaterials
Co-supervisor
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Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Química (3º ciclo) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2021/04/01 - 2025/03/31 | Development of Radioactive Magnetic Nanoparticles for application in joint thermoradiotherapy
Supervisor
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Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Física (3º ciclo) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2019 - 2021 | Magnetovolume effects in ferromagnetic Heusler compounds
Supervisor
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Masters in Physics Engineering (2nd cycle) (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2015 - 2021 | Nanostructured rare-earth free permanent magnets
Supervisor
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Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering (3rd cycle) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais e Cerâmica, Portugal
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2015 - 2020 | Tricritical magnetocaloric materials synthesis and their thermal properties characterization
Supervisor of Amin Davarpanah
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Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering (3rd cycle) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2019 - 2019 | Simulações de propriedades termodinâmicas de materiais magnéticos por métodos de Monte-Carlo
Supervisor of Hugo Guilherme Trigo
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2018 - 2019 | Synthesis optimization of Zn-Mn ferrites for magnetic fluid aplications
Co-supervisor
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Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2017 - 2018 | Sistema de medição de temperatura por termometria IV em campo magnético variável
Co-supervisor of Rafael Nunes Correia
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Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2015 - 2015 | Estudos de condutividade térmica e capacidade térmica em materiais
Supervisor
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Física (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2014 - 2015 | Random path sampling applied to vector models of magnetism
Supervisor of Nuno Miguel dos Santos Fortunato
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Mestrado em Física (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2010 - 2011 | Manganites Modificadas por Iões Terra-Rara e Crescidas por LFZ
Co-supervisor of Marta Gomes dos Santos Sousa
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Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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2009 - 2010 | Desenvolvimento de um Sistema de Medida Directa do Efeito Magnetocalórico
Co-supervisor of Samuel Coutinho dos Santos
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Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2020/10 | Modelling and Simulation of Passive Thermal Systems for Thermal Management
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Cláudia Rodrigues Fernandes (Master)
Universidade do Porto Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Portugal
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2020 | A new ANN-based method for evaluating magnetocaloric properties to design a multilayer Active Magnetic Regenerator
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Manuel Gesù Del Duca (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Salerno Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Italy
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2016 | Nature of First-Order Phase Transition Responsible for Giant Magnetocaloric Effect: From Modelling to Assessment in R5(Si,Ge)4
Compounds
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rui Mário da Silva Costa (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2016 | Magnetic Fluidic-Based Thermal Switch
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Miguel Martins Dias (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019 - Current | Associação Nacional de Investigadores em Ciência e Tecnologia | Vogal da Direção |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | Membro do Conselho do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro.
Member
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Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal |
2019 - Current | Membro do Conselho Restrito do Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro
Member
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Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal |