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Francisco Salzedas, obtained the degrees Licenciatura and Master in Physics from the University of Coimbra, at the Physics Department. He obtained the PhD in Physics from the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He is now Associate Professor at University of Porto at the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) and integrated researcher at Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. His research in hot plasma physics for controlled nuclear fusion, has been carried out in collaboration with DIFFER (ex FOM-Rijnhuizen) in the Netherlands; Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, in Germany, Physics Institute at University of São Paulo, in Brasil; Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academie of Sciences (Prague), in the Czech Republic; Joint European Torus, Culham, in the United Kingdom. With his research, he seeks to contribute to develop the technology that allows humankind to access the abundant, clean and safe source of energy released in the fusion of light nuclei. This is the natural source of the energy radiated by the Sun that has powered Life on Earth since its beginning. Mastery of this technology will lead humankind into a new era that will allow it to maintain development, independently of the nefarious fossil fuels. His research interests in tokamak plasma physics are in MHD, MHD instabilities, energy confinement disruption, transport, plasma rotation.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francisco Salzedas

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6A1E-D571-B1CE
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4227-3122
Education
Degree Classification
1995/09 - 2000/11/10
Concluded
 Physics (Doctor)
Major in Nuclear Fusion
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
"The disruptive Instability in Tokamak Plasmas (ISBN: 90-393-2571-5)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
2002/02/18 - 2002/03/02 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany
2001/01/08 - 2001/02/02 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal
Joint European Torus, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/04/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1995/09 - 2000/08 PhD student Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
DIFFER, Netherlands
1992/09 - 1995/07 Master student Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Física, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear
LA/P/0061/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0061/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2013/11 - 2015/11 Study of the Effect of Plasma Column Rotation on the Disruptive Instability in Tokamaks
USP/UP/2013
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Universidade do Porto
Concluded
2002 - 2003 Studies of Transport and MHD Activity in Thermonuclear Plasma Fusion
POCTI/FAT/48230/2002
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. F. Salzedas; S. I. W. Shah; J. Havlicek; Stöckel, J.; P. Varju; A. Havránek; R. Pánek; Silva, Carlos. "Study of secondary instability of 2/1 magnetic island in COMPASS high density limit plasmas". Belfast, 2017.
    Published
  2. Salzedas, F. "Study of secondary instability of 2/1 magnetic island in COMPASS high density limit plasmas". 2017.
  3. Shah, S.I.W.; Salzedas, F.; Havlicek, J.; Stöckel, J.; Silva, C.. "Observation of secondary instability of 2/1 magnetic island in compass high density limit plasmas". 2016.
  4. Ronchi, G.; Severo, J.H.F.; Salzedas, F.; Galvão, R.M.O.. "Characterization of toroidal intrinsic rotation with MHD activity in the TCABR tokamak". 2015.
  5. Salzedas, F.; Ronchi, G.; Severo, J.H.F.; Galvão, R.M.O.; Sanada, E.K.. "Measurements of the natural plasma flow during the precursor of tcabr density limit disruptions". 2015.
  6. Salzedas, F.. "Secondary instability to tearing modes in JET density limit disruptions". 2012.
Conference poster
  1. S. I. W. Shah; F. Salzedas; J. Havlicek; Stöckel, J.; P. Varju; A. Havránek; R. Pánek; Silva, Carlos. "Experimental Study of Secondary Instability to 2/1 Magnetic Island in Compass Density Limit Disruptions". Paper presented in 6th IAEA DEMO Programme Workshop (DPWS-6), 2019.
Journal article
  1. M.F.F. Nave; E. Delabie; J. Ferreira; J. Garcia; D. King; M. Lennholm; B. Lomanowski; et al. "Isotope effects on intrinsic rotation in hydrogen, deuterium and tritium plasmas". Nuclear Fusion (2023): https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acbb8c.
    10.1088/1741-4326/acbb8c
  2. Salzedas, F. "Study of secondary instability of precursor magnetic island in COMPASS density limit disruptions". Physics of Plasmas (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5123677.
    10.1063/1.5123677
  3. Ronchi, G.; Severo, J.H.F.; Salzedas, F.; Galvão, R.M.O.; Sanada, E.K.. "Interplay between intrinsic plasma rotation and magnetic island evolution in disruptive discharges". Plasma Physics Reports 42 5 (2016): 465-471. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84975721227&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1134/S1063780X16050159
  4. Salzedas, F.. "Secondary instability as cause of minor disruptions in density limit tokamak plasmas". Physics of Plasmas 18 10 (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80655125613&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1063/1.3644475
  5. F. Salzedas; A.A.M. Oomens; F.C. Schüller; the RTP team. "The effect of ECRH on the stability of the radiation induced m = 2 mode and on the current quench of a major disruption". Nuclear Fusion 42 7 (2002): 881-891. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0029-5515%2F42%2F7%2F311.
    10.1088/0029-5515/42/7/311
  6. F. Salzedas; F. C. Schüller; A. A. M. Oomens; the RTP Team. "Exponentially Growing Tearing Modes in Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project Plasmas". Physical Review Letters 88 7 (2002): https://doi.org/10.1103%2Fphysrevlett.88.075002.
    10.1103/physrevlett.88.075002
  7. Salzedas, F.; Hokin, S.; Schüller, F.C.; Oomens, A.A.M.. "Evolution of electron temperature during the energy quench of a major plasma disruption". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 30 1 I (2002): 80-81. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036478188&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TPS.2002.1003933
  8. Salzedas, F.; Schüller, F.C.; Oomens, A.A.M.. "Exponentially growing tearing modes in Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project plasmas". Physical Review Letters 88 7 (2002): 750021-750024. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037127639&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  9. Salzedas, F.; Hokin, S.; Schüller, F.C.; Oomens, A.A.M.. "High resolution temperature and density profiles during the energy quench of density limit disruptions in Rijnhuizen tokamak project". Physics of Plasmas 9 8 (2002): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036684159&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1063/1.1489675
  10. A.A.M Oomens; J Lok; F Salzedas; F.C Schüller; R Dam; B de Groot. "Current drive and mode stabilization experiments with real-time control of the gyrotron output power". Fusion Engineering and Design 53 1-4 (2001): 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fs0920-3796%2800%2900508-1.
    10.1016/s0920-3796(00)00508-1
  11. N J Lopes Cardozo; G M D Hogeweij; M de Baar; C J Barth; M N A Beurskens; F De Luca; A J H Donné; et al. "Electron thermal transport in RTP: filaments, barriers and bifurcations". Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 39 12B (1999): B303-B316. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0741-3335%2F39%2F12b%2F023.
    10.1088/0741-3335/39/12b/023
  12. Salzedas, F.. "Semiclassical description of nuclear matter according to the Walecka and the Zimanyi-Moszkowski model". Physics of Atomic Nuclei 62 2 (1999): 186-191. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0033241240&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06/28 Isotope Effects on Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation and Rotation Reversals 48th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics
Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research DIFFER (Maastricht, Netherlands)
2015/10/13 Effect of the m=2, n=1 magnetic island rotation on the intrinsic plasma fl ow of TCABR density limit plasmas 22nd IAEA Technical Meeting on Research Using Small Fusion Devices
Institute of Plasma Physics of Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic)
2001/12/12 Disruptions: physical mechanisms and precursors 9th European Fusion Physics Workshop
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and the Helsinki University (Saariselka, Finland)
2000/06/14 The experimental relation between the tearing mode growth rate and the perturbed magnetic field 27th European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics
KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (Budapest, Hungary)
1999/03/15 Stabilization of Radiative Induced Disruptions by ECRH at RTP Workshop on MHD and NTM in support of JET in 1999 and in view of the operation of the JET Facilities after 1999
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland)
1999/03/09 Continuous vs. Modulated ECRH and the stabilization of an m/n=2/1 tearing mode 12th Symposium Plasmafysica & Stralingstechnologie
NNV (Lunteren, Netherlands)
1997/12/10 Softening of the Current Quench in a Density Limit Disruption 5th European Fusion Physics Workshop, Sesimbra
Instituto Superior Técnico Centro de Fusão Nuclear (Sesimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2014/09/01 - 2018/05/24 Experimental Study of Secondary Instability to 2/1 Magnetic Island in COMPASS High Density Limit Plasmas
Supervisor of Syed Ilyas Waseem Shah
 Engenharia Física Tecnológica (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2013/09 - 2013/10 Palestra - Magnetic Reconnection: from Solar Flares to Intense Laser-Solid Interactions, por Nuno Loureiro (2013/10 - 2013/10)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2010/01 - 2010/11 26th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT), Porto, Portugal (2010/09/27 - 2010/10/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019/07/26 ISTTOK plasma characterization and control by the Heavy Ion Beam Diagnostic
(Thesis) Arguer
 Rafael Bagagem Henriques (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017/03/09 Toroidal momentum transport in fusion plasmas: experimental evidence of the momentum pinch
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Jorge Miguel de Sousa Ferreira (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2014/03/31 Kalman filter methods for realtime signal processing in tokamak fusion research
Thesis Member
 Diogo Miguel Louro Alves (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2012/02/17 Tokamak Equilibria with Toroidal Current Reversal
(Thesis) Arguer
 Paulo Jorge Rodrigues (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2009/12/21 Mhd and Fast Particle Mode Studies Using Fast Frequency Hopping Reflectometers on the Asdex Upgrade Tokamak
(Thesis) Arguer
 Sílvia Cristina da Graça Ramos (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2009/03/20 Numerical Simulations of Recycling Impurity Screening on JET
(Thesis) Arguer
 Paula Cristina da Silva Aresta Belo (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2005/07/25 Turbulence Studies in the Scrape-off Layer of Tokamak Plasmas by Three-dimensional Gyrofluid Simulations
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tiago Miguel Tamissa Madeira da Costa Ribeiro (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2003/10 Estabilização do Modo Kink Interno M=1, N=1 por Partículas Rápidas Aquecidas na Ressonância Ciclotrónica dos Iões
(Thesis) Arguer
 Fernando José Robalo Nabais (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020 - 2020 Physics of Plasmas (1089-7674) AIP Publishing
2003 - 2003 Nuclear Fusion (1741-4326) IOP Publishing