Curriculum Vitae
Diogo Estevão Pereira Pinto
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Diogo Estevão Pereira Pinto
Citation names
- Diogo E. P. Pinto
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7C1B-26C8-0AC8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0354-0531
Email addresses
- diogo.pinto@physics.ox.ac.uk (Professional)
Addresses
- The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, UK, OX1 3PU, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/pinto (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Italian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017/10/01 - 2022/02/18
Concluded
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Física (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Collective dynamics of flexible active particles on substrates: from cells to tissues" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2017
Concluded
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Física da Matéria Condensada e Nano-materiais (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Adsorption of colloidal particles on mobile rafts" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2015
Concluded
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Física (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Não aplicável" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/10/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 2021/12/01 - 2024/09/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2017 | Tutor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 - 2016 | Bolseiro | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal |
| 2015/07/12 - 2015/09/12 | Estágio ERASMUS+, no âmbito do tema ”Dark Matter Searches in Underground Laboratories”, em colaboração com o Grupo de Física Nuclear e Astropartículas (GIFNA) da instituição. | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/10/01 - 2026/09/30 | Rheology and Fracture in Confluent Cell Layers
Post-doc
University of Oxford Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, United Kingdom
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Ongoing
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| 2017/10 - 2021/11/30 | Collective dynamics of flexible active particles on substrates: from cells to tissues
SFRH/BD/131158/2017
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Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia |
| 2015/09 - 2016/03 | Computer simulations of colloids self-organization: from nonequilibrium to relaxation towards equilibrium
IF/00255/2013
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/01 - 2024/09/30 | Deepening our understanding of the Liquid-Liquid transition in supercooled water
Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Ongoing
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| 2021/12/01 - 2023/11/30 | Soft Water: understanding what makes a fluid behave like water
Post-doc Fellow
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Concluded
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| 2018/03/01 - 2022/07/29 | Active Matter on Substrates: from single cells to tissues
PTDC/FIS-MAC/28146/2017 (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-028146)
PTDC/FIS-MAC/28146/2017
FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics
UID/FIS/00618/2019
UIDP/00618/2020
UIDB/00618/2020
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/21 - 2024/09/30 | Design and simulation of capsid formation from self-folding nets
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/09/01 | Cell motility in confluent tissues induced by substrate disorder | Failure in soft materials: from yielding to fracture Workshop
(Viena, Austria)
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| 2024/07/01 | Colored Kirigami: Inverse design of planar nets to self-fold 3D shells | 6th Italian Soft Matter Days
(Italy)
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| 2023/09/01 | Design strategies for the self-assembly of finite size structures | 7th International Soft Matter Conference
(Japan)
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| 2022/06/01 | Self-assembly of finite size capsules using SAT-assembly | From Water To Colloidal Water
(Italy)
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| 2021/07/01 | The cell response time sets a minimum length scale for epithelial tissues on patterned substrates | 11th Liquid Matter Conference
(Czech Republic)
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| 2020/08/01 | The cell adaptation time sets a minimum length scale for patterned substrates | CMD2020GEFES
(Spain)
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| 2020/03/01 | The cell adaptation time sets a minimum length scale for patterned substrates | 3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference
(Portugal)
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| 2019/05/01 | Dynamics of epithelial tissues on patterned substrates | 2nd Portuguese Condensed Matter Physics Meeting
(Portugal)
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| 2018/06/01 | Kinetics of the adsorption of DNA-coated colloidal particles | 13º Encontro Nacional de Química-Física
(Portugal)
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| 2018/01/01 | Kinetics of the adsorption of DNA-coated colloidal particles | Flowing Matter 2018
(Portugal)
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| 2017/12/01 | Adsorption of DNA coated colloidal particles on mobile patches | Dynamics of self-organization: from colloids to biomaterials Workshop
(Spain)
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| 2017/07/01 | Kinetics of the adsorption of DNA-coated colloidal particles | Ciência 2017
(Portugal)
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| 2017/01/01 | Adsorption of colloidal particles on mobile patches | Flowing Matter 2017
(Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/02/01 - 2024/09/28 | A graph theory approach to the inverse self-assembly problem
Co-supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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| 2023/10/01 - 2024/03/01 | Hexagonal crystal nucleation and growth using patchy particles through the SAT-assembly strategy
Co-supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2019 - 2020 | Participated as organizer and supervisor during the CFTC summer internships for Bsc students
Workshop
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CFTC summer internships
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2017 - 2019 | Participated in FCUL’s open day, as a member of the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, promoting the interaction
between researchers and high school students
Exhibition
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Open day FCUL
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2017 - 2019 | Participated in Jobshop FCUL, as a member of the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, promoting the interaction
between academia and industry
Exhibition
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Jobshop FCUL
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025 - 2025 | Advanced Fluid Dynamics | Advanced Fluid Dynamics | University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory, United Kingdom |
| 2017 - 2020 | Metodos Numericos | Engenharia Física (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2017 | Optica e Electromagnetismo | Engenharia Informática (Especialização pós-licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2017 | Fisica | Engenharia Informática (Especialização pós-licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2017 | Electromagnetismo | Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| 2016 - 2016 | Fisica Experimental II | Engenharia Física | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/01 - Current | Soft Matter (1744-6848) | |
| 2022/01/01 - Current | The Journal of Chemical Physics (1089-7690) | |
| 2021/01/01 - Current | Physical Review E (2470-0053) | |
| 2017/01/01 - Current | International Journal of Modern Physics C (1793-6586) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Presentation Prize winner
Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
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| 2022 | Poster prize winner
Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom
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Other distinction
| 2024 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship Seal of Excellence
European Commission, Belgium
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