Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Cristóvão Sousa Dias
Citation names
- Dias, Cristóvão
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 1911-2734-E4A4
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0307-2563
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
|
2011
Concluded
|
Doutoramento em Física (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciencias, Portugal
"Kinetics of thin-film mass transport on crystalline and amorphous substrates" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
Aprovado |
|
2007
Concluded
|
Mestrado em Física (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciencias, Portugal
"Estudo computacional do efeito/relevância do substrato na cinética de reacções catalíticas heterogéneas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
Muito Bom |
|
2004
Concluded
|
Licenciatura em Ensino de Fisica e Quimica (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciencias, Portugal
"Nao Tem" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
|
15 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/05/01 - 2025/04/30 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
| 2023/03/20 - 2023/04/15 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 2017/08/01 - 2019/04/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal | ||
| 2019/02/15 - 2019/03/15 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Georgetown University, United States |
| 2012/07/01 - 2017/07/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal | ||
| 2008/04/15 - 2008/07/15 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01/25 - 2023/03/08 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Europeia, Portugal |
| Universidade Europeia, Portugal | ||
| 2016/02/01 - 2019/04/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/03/31 - Current | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | ZIXAGO LDA, Portugal |
| 2011/09/01 - 2012/06/30 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Externato Maria Auxiliadora, Portugal |
| 2011/09/01 - 2012/02/29 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Escola profissional Esprominho, Portugal |
| 2011/05/01 - 2011/07/14 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Agrupamento de Escolas Virgínia Moura, Portugal |
| 2005/09/11 - 2006/08/31 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Escola básica dos 2.º e 3.º ciclos de Tadim, Portugal |
| 2003/09/01 - 2004/08/31 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Escola Secundaria Carlos Amarante, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/04 - 2016/03 | Self-assembly of the Lisbon model of patchy colloids at patterned surfaces and more | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/11/01 - 2026/10/31 | In silico modeling of living cell-based gels
2025.09087.CPCA.A1
Principal investigator
ZIXAGO LDA, Portugal
|
Ongoing
|
| 2026/02/01 - 2026/07/31 | PHYSICS-BASED SYNTHETIC DATA TO UNLOCK ROBOTIC TEXTILE AUTOMATION
2025.00031.INOVIA.ZIXAGO
Principal investigator
ZIXAGO LDA, Portugal
|
Ongoing
|
| 2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | Active skyrmions in liquid crystal-colloid composite media
PTDC/FIS-MAC/5689/2020
Principal investigator
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
|
| 2022/01 - 2023/06 | Surfaces and Interfaces of Soft Active Matter
EXPL/FIS-MAC/0406/2021
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 | Aproximação a múltiplas escalas da dinâmica coletiva de coloides ativados pela luz
DAAD-Alemanha 2020_2021
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal
|
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
|
| 2018/07/30 - 2021/07/29 | Matéria Ativa em Substratos: das células aos tecidos
PTDC/FIS-MAC/28146/2017
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
|
| 2021/01/01 - 2021/06/30 | High-performance computational design of biocompatible cell scaffolds for tissue engineering
CPCA/A2/7269/2020
Principal investigator
|
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics
UID/FIS/00618/2019
UIDP/00618/2020
UIDB/00618/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Strategic Project - UI 607 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/FIS/UI0607/2011
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
|
| Conference paper |
|
| Conference poster |
|
| Journal article |
|
Other
| Other output |
|
Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2022/08/01 | Enhancement of motility and group cohesion in crowded environments | 33rd IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics
(United States)
|
| 2022/07 | "Flocking” dynamics of active skyrmions | 28th International Liquid Crystal Conference
(Lisbon, Portugal)
|
| 2022/04/01 | Modelling of Cell-mediated Self-assembled Colloidal Scaffolds | IX International Conference on Computational Bioengineering
(Lisbon, Portugal)
|
| 2022/03/01 | How to design cell-mediated self-assembled colloidal scaffolds | 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference
(Portugal)
|
| 2020/08/31 | How to design cell-mediated self-assembled colloidal scaffolds | CMD2020GEFES
(Spain)
|
| 2019/05/09 | Interaction anisotropy in particle deposition at the edges of drying drops | 2nd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference
(Porto, Portugal)
|
| 2017/12 | Interaction anisotropy and the KPZ to KPZQ transition in particle deposition at the edges of drying drops | Dynamics of self-organization: from colloids to biomaterials
(Barcelona, Spain)
|
| 2017/07/20 | Dynamics of self-organization of network fluids | Liquids 2017 -- 10th Liquid Matter Conference
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
|
| 2017/07 | Dynamics of cell-mediated aggregation | Ciência 2017
(Lisboa, Portugal)
|
| 2017/01 | Dynamics of low-valence colloidal networks adsorbed on substrates | Flowing matter 2017 - COST Action [MP1305] event
(Porto, Portugal)
|
| 2016/09 | Temperature driven dynamical arrest of a network fluid: the role of loops | FÍSICA 2016 – 20ª Conferência Nacional de Física
(Braga, Portugal)
|
| 2016/06/28 | Temperature driven dynamical arrest of a network fluid: the role of loops | MTG Fest: Celebrating Margarida Telo da Gama's Birthday
(Lisboa, Portugal)
|
| 2016/01 | Relaxation dynamics of functionalized colloids on attractive substrates | Flowing matter 2016 - COST Action [MP1305] event
(Porto, Portugal)
|
| 2015/06 | Growth of complex colloidal films | VII International Materials Symposium
(Porto, Portugal)
|
| 2015/06 | Modeling functionalized colloids on substrates | Computational Approaches to Materials Design
(Aveiro, Portugal)
|
| 2014/12 | Aggregation of functionalized colloids on substrates | Flowing matter 2014 - COST Action [MP1305] event
(Lisboa, Portugal)
|
| 2014/09 | Non-equilibrium adsorption of complex colloids on substrates | NESS: Non-equilibrium Simulation School at Imperial College
(Londres, United Kingdom)
|
| 2013/07 | Nonequilibrium growth of functionalized colloids on substrates | IUPAP: Statphys 25
(Seul, South Korea)
|
| 2010/03 | A (1 + 1)-dimensional model to study the kinetic roughening transition in molecular beam epitaxial growth | March Meeting of American Physical Society
(Portland, United States)
|
| 2009/03 | Copper Nanocluster Growth At Experimental Conditions Using Temperature Accelerated Dynamics | March 2009. March Meeting of American Physical Society
(Pittsburgh, United States)
|
| 2008/09 | Identifying The Nature Of The Irreversible Phase Transition In The Ziff-Gulari-Barshad Model With Impurities | 10th Granada Seminar
(Granada, Spain)
|
| 2007/03 | Time Correlations On The Ziff-Gulari-Barshad Model With Random Defects | March Meeting of American Physical Society
(Denver, United States)
|
| 2006/09 | Study Of The Influence Of Impurities On Reactant Distribution Functions In A Heterogeneous Catalytic Reaction Model | European Materials Research Society - Fall Meeting 2006
(Warsaw, Poland)
|
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/01 - Current | Interfaces of Active Matter
Supervisor of João Cordeiro
|
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
| 2022/07/10 - Current | Post-doctoral supervision: Active skyrmions
Supervisor of Allison Teixeira
|
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
|
| 2021/10/01 - Current | Modeling cell adhesion and proliferation in complex environments
Supervisor of Tatiana Rebocho
|
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
|
| 2021/10/01 - Current | Colloid-skyrmion coupling: Equilibrium properties
Supervisor of Márlon Gouveia
|
Mestrado em Física (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
| 2021/10/01 - 2033/02/17 | Modeling the mechanical properties of colloidal gels
Supervisor of João Neves
|
Mestrado em Engenharia Física (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
| 2020/09/01 - 2022/02/07 | Tracing of active particles
Supervisor of David Duarte
|
Mestrado em Ciência de Dados (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
| 2018/09 - 2019/10/24 | Interfacial Properties of Active Matter
Supervisor of Pedro Didier Neta
|
Mestrado em Física (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
| 2019/08 - 2019/09 | Erasmus+ Traineeship: Kirigami, the art of creating self-folding structures
Supervisor of Tanausú Hernández
|
Erasmus+ (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal
|
| 2019/04 - 2019/09 | Efeito da Gravidade no crescimento de estruturas de materiais biocompatíveis para aplicações em engenharia de tecidos
Supervisor of David Bulha
|
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
|
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/25 - Current | CFTC-IBEB Initiative: Image processing in biosystems (2022). Member of the Organizing Committee, Lisbon, Portugal. (2022/03/25)
Conference
|
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal |
| 2018/10/18 - Current | CFTC-IBEB Initiative: Soft Matter in Biomedicine (2018). Member of the Organizing Committee, Lisbon, Portugal (2018/10/12)
Conference
|
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal |
| 2018/02 - Current | Flowing Matter 2018 (2018/02)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal |
| 2014 - 2015 | Soft.Matter@PT Workshop (2014 - 2015)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
|
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Fisica Teorica e Computacional, Portugal |
| 2013/04 - 2013/04 | JEI2013 - Jornadas de Ensino de Informática (2013/04 - 2013/04)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
|
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
|
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/25 | VARIATION OF THE RELATIVE STOCK PRICES POSITIONS ON AN ABSTRACT GEOMETRY SPACE
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Rui Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Escola de Gestão de Informação, Portugal
|
| 2022/05/18 | Application of Tensor Networks on Text Universes
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Afonso Capela (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
|
| 2020/09/30 | Synchronization of a binary mixture of coupled Brownian oscillators
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
Gonçalo Paulo (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal
|
| 2018/10/25 | Granular Electrostatics and the Formation of Aggregates
(Thesis) Main arguer
|
André Filipe Valente Matias (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal
|
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/08/16 - Current | IEEE International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering 2018 (iCCECE '18) |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/01/25 - Current | Machine Learning | PG in data science for business (Pós-Graduação) | Universidade Europeia, Portugal |
| 2017 - Current | Métodos Numéricos | Licenciatura em física (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
| 2020/09/01 - 2021/02/28 | Modeling in Physics and Engineer | Physics Engineering; Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 | Physics Elements for Geology | Geology (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 | General Physics | Informatics Engineering (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 | Physics for Biologists | Biology (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| 2017/02/01 - 2017/07/31 | Physics Labs for Life Science | Life Science (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/02/28 | Computational Physics | Physics (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
| 2015/09/01 - 2016/02/28 | Mechanics and waves | Chemistry (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
| 2015/09/01 - 2016/02/28 | Mechanics | Physics (Bacharelato) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01/05 - Current | Engineering Research Express | |
| 2022/01/05 - Current | Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering | |
| 2020 - Current | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| 2018 - Current | EPJE | |
| 2018 - Current | PLoS ONE (1932-6203) | Public Library of Science |
| 2017 - Current | International Journal of Modern Physics C (0129-1831) | World Scientific |
| 2016 - Current | Molecular Physics (1362-3028) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
| 2016 - Current | Physics Letters A (0375-9601) | Elsevier |
| 2015 - Current | Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (0378-4371) | Elsevier |
| 2014 - Current | Adsorption Science & Technology (2048-4038) | SAGE Publications |
| 2014 - Current | Physical Review E (1550-2376) | American Physical Society |
| 2014 - Current | Physical Review Letters (1079-7114) | American Physical Society |
| 2013 - Current | Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society (0103-5053) | Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica (SBQ) |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/01 - Current | Ana Catarina Pelicano. “Medical Microwave Imaging of the Breast”. PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics. | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - Current | Genilson Carvalho. “Computational Modeling of Wound Healing”. PhD in Physics. | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciencias, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2017 | EPS Student Grant at the 10th Liquid Matter Conference
European Physical Society, France
|
| 2003 | Award for Scholar Merit
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
|
