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Professor Luis Oliveira e Silva elected Fellow of the EPS
April 17 2017Prof. Luis Oliveira e Silva has been elected fellow of the European Physical Society at the last meeting of the EPS Council. His citation reads "For his outstanding theoretical and numerical contributions in laser plasma interaction in the relativistic regime". In 2017, the EPS elected three new fellows, increasing the total number of fellows to 85. Luis Oliveira e Silva is the first Portuguese physicist elected to fellow status. The EPS was founded in 1968, with 42 national "EPS Member Societies" and 2500 individual members, representing more than 120,000 members all over Europe.
Paper by lead author Professor Jorge Vieira featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters
December 23 2016On the December 23 2016 issue, the paper by Prof. Jorge Vieira on high orbital angular momentum generation has been distinguished on the cover of Physical Review Letters. The paper High Orbital Angular Momentum Harmonic Generation by J. Vieira et al. is published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 265001 (2016)
Professor Luis Oliveira e Silva distinguished by the President of the Portuguese Republic
July 29 2016On July 29 2016, Luis Oliveira e Silva was distinguished as Grande Oficial of the Ordem da Instrução Pública by the President of the Portuguese Republic. A video of the ceremony is available here. View more
Professors Jorge Loureiro and Jayr Amorim publish “Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Low Temperature Plasmas”
July 12 2016The German publisher firm Springer has just released the book “Kinetics and Spectroscopy of Low Temperature Plasmas” by Jorge Loureiro, Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and member of IPFN, and Jayr Amorim, Professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in São Paulo. View more
Professor Vasco Guerra awarded the 2016 William Crookes Prize
May 30 2016Professor Vasco Guerra has been awarded the 2016 William Crookes Prize, for his outstanding contribution to the modelling of molecular low-temperature plasmas, such as the self-consistent kinetic modelling of N2, O2, N2-O2, and Ar-O2 plasmas under discharge and post-discharge conditions including the strong coupling between electron and vibrational kinetics, together with chemical and ion kinetics. View more