Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ruben Maurício da Silva Conceição
Citation names
- Conceição, Ruben
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8616-D0F9-D6AF
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4945-5340
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Particles and Fields Physics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2011/01/11
Concluded
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Física (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Sensitivity to cosmic ray composition and hadronic models from the Fluorescence Detector data of the Pierre Auger Observatory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2001/09/01 - 2006/09/01
Concluded
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Licenciatura pre-bolonha (5 anos) em engenharia física tecnológica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/04/01 - 2024/06/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal |
| 2012/01/01 - 2017/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/07/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal |
| Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal | ||
| 2013/09/01 - 2024/06/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006/09/01 - 2011/01/01 | PhD student | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2005/09/01 - 2006/01/01 | Monitor of the exhibition "A Luz de Einstein" | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
LA/P/0016/2020
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2024/01/01 - 2025/10/31 | Physics with UHECRs at the Pierre Auger Observatory
2024.06879.CERN
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021/05/15 - 2024/05/14 | SWGO: the wide-field gamma-ray observatory at the Southern hemisphere
PTDC/FIS-PAR/4300/2020
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2020/07/01 - 2022/06/30 | Bridging Theory and Experiment: Collider Phenomenology
CERN/FIS-PAR/0024/2019
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/09/01 - 2021/08/31 | Enhancement of the measurement capabilities fo the Pierre Auger Observatory
CERN/FIS-PAR/0034/2019
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics
UID/FIS/50007/2019
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP
UID/FIS/50007/2019
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2017/05/02 - 2019/08/31 | PORTUGUESE PARTICIPATION IN THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY
CERN/FIS-PAR/0023/2017
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2015/09/01 - 2018/08/31 | Nova geração de detectores RPC de elevada precisão para a medida dos muões em raios cósmicos de energia extrema
FAPESP/19946/2014
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2012/09/01 - 2015/08/31 | AugerNext: Estudos de Investigação inovadores para a próxima geração de Experiências de Raios cósmicos de Ultra elevada energia.
ASPERA/0001/2010
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2012/02/01 - 2014/04/30 | Participação no Observatório Pierre Auger
CERN/FP/123611/2011
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Projecto Estratégico - LA 7 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/FIS/LA0007/2011
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Pólo de Coimbra, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/05/15 - 2024/05/15 | SWGO: observatório de raios gama no hemisfério Sul
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2021/10/01 - 2023/09/30 | UHECR Physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2021/09/01 - 2023/08/31 | Enhancement of the Pierre Auger Observatory capabilities
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2019/09/01 - 2021/09/01 | UHECR Physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory
CERN/FIS-PAR/0031/2019
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/05/15 - 2021/05/14 | LATTES: um detector inovador para astrofísica de raios gama de muito alta energia no hemisfério sul
PTDC/FIS-PAR/29158/2017
Principal investigator
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2017/05/02 - 2019/05/01 | Participation in the Pierre Auger Observatory
CERN/FIS-PAR/0023/2017
Researcher
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2015/09/01 - 2018/08/28 | A new generation of RPC muon detectors for high-precision high-energy cosmic-shower
FAPESP/19946/2014
Post-doc
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Concluded
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| 2015/03/01 - 2017/02/28 | Participação Portuguesa no Observatório Pierre Auger
CERN/FIS-NUC/0038/2015
Post-doc
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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| Preprint |
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Other
| Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/04/09 | Física de Astropartículas: Mensageiros do Universo | Palestra para alunos do secundário
Escola Secundária de Odivelas (Odivelas, Portugal)
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| 2025/04/05 | Astropartículas e as partículas mais energéticas do Universo | Masterclasses em Raios Cósmicos
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/10/19 | The Pierre Auger Observatory: Leading the Astroparticle Physics field into a Golden Era | LIP-Lisbon seminar
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/09/01 | Highlights from the Pierre Auger Observatory | Cosmology 2023 in Miramare
(Miramare - Trieste, Italy)
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| 2023/04/26 | As partículas mais energéticas do Universo (The Universe most energetic particles) | Outreach presentation to high-school students
Escola Secundária Padre Alberto Neto (Queluz, Portugal)
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| 2023/04/13 | Calibrations at Auger: Paving the Future | Fourth joint LIP/IGFAE workshop,
Biblioteca Nacional (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/02/01 | Exploring the extreme energy Universe | IST-DF colloquium
Physics Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/07/28 | Gamma/hadron discrimination at high energies through the azimuthal fluctuations of the particle distributions at the ground | 27th ECRS
European Cosmic Ray Symposium (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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| 2022/06/02 | SWGO event visualizer for outreach | SWGO outreach and communication working group meeting
SWGO collaboration (Virtual Meeting)
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| 2022/05/24 | Muon measurements with the Pierre Auger Observatory | 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
Grapes-3, India (Virtual Conference) (Virtual Conference, India)
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| 2022/05/02 | Analysis and Simulation Working Group Overview | 6th SWGO collaboration meeting
SWGO collaboration (Virtual Conference)
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| 2022/03/07 | Searching for the building blocks of our Universe | Jornadas de Engenharia Física
NFIST - Instituto Superior Técnico
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| 2021/11/09 | Observatório Pierre Auger e SWGO: duas janelas para o Universo extremo | Escola Avançada de Professores no CERN Online em Língua Portuguesa
CERN
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| 2020/11/05 | The WCD with 4 PMTs and 1.7m water weight: an overview | 3rd SWGO collaboration meeting
(online, Mexico)
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| 2020/04/06 | MARTA simulation in Offline | Auger Online Collaboration Meeting
(Online, Argentina)
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| 2019/11/26 | As partículas mais energéticas do Universo - The most energetic particles in the Universe | Semana nacional da cultura científica e tecnológica
LIP (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2019/09/13 | The Southern Wide field-of-view Gamma-ray Observatory | ENAA
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2019/07/31 | Probing the high-energy spectrum of neutral pions in ultra-high-energy proton-air interactions | 36th International Cosmic Rays Conference (ICRC)
(Madison, United States)
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| 2019/06/25 | Study of high-energy hadronic interactions with the Pierre Auger Observatory | ISCRA 2019
(Moscow, Russia)
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| 2018 | Pierre Auger Observatory: latest results and prospects | 30th rencontres de Blois
(Blois, France)
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| 2018 | Studies on the response of an Auger water-Cherenkov detector to atmospheric particles | Auger collaboration meeting
(Malargue, Argentina)
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| 2018 | Update on the paper "Fluctuations of the muon number in highly inclined events" | Auger collaboration meeting
(Malargue, Argentina)
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| 2018 | An opportunity to measure the >¿0 energy spectrum of the first interaction through the low Nmu distribution tail | Auger collaboration meeting
(Malargue, Argentina)
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| 2017 | Messenger from the Universe | 2nd Mini-school in Particle and Astroparticle physics
(Sesimbra, Portugal)
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| 2016 | The Pierre Auger Observatory: results and prospects | LHC days in Split
(Split, Croatia)
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| 2015 | High-energy interactions at the Pierre Auger Observatory | ESP-HEP 2015
(Vienna, Austria)
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| 2015 | The average longitudinal shower profile: exploring the shape information | 24th ECRS
(Kiel, Germany)
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| 2014 | Understanding ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays interactions through the study of longitudinal shower profiles | New worlds in Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology
(Braga, Portugal)
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| 2014 | Is it possible to discriminate mass composition scenarios from new physics? | Auger analysis meeting
(Golden, United States)
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| 2013 | Requirements on the measurements of the number of muons to validate mass composition scenarios | 2nd MPD meeting
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2013 | The Pierre Auger Observatory: results on the highest energy particles | Time and Matter
(Venice, Italy)
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| 2012 | Composition vs. Hadronic models: open scenarios | Particle Physics at Auger
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2011 | Proton-proton cross-sections: the interplay between density and radius | IDPASC Dark Matter Workshop
(Évora, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2019 - Current | Investigation of astrophysical gamma-ray sources with a new detector concept
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2018 - Current | Muon energy spectrum in Extensive Air Showers
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2017 - 2017 | Probing hadronic interactions at ultra-high-energies
Supervisor of Steven Silva
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2014 - 2016 | Interpretation of measurements of the number of muons in extensive air shower experiments
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Brazil
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/12 - 2023/04/13 | Fourth joint LIP/IGFAE workshop (2023/04/12 - 2023/04/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2022 | Organization member (co-chair) of a symposium on Data Science on (Astro)Particle Physics and Bridge to Industry (Lisbon,
2018, http://www.lip.pt/data-science-2018) (Braga, 2019, http://www.lip.pt/data-science-2019) (Coimbra, 2020, http://www.lip.pt/data-science-2020)
(2018 - 2020)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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| 2021/09/05 - 2021/09/10 | Convener of the Nuclear and astroparticle physics session at the PANIC 2021 conference, held in Lisbon (2021/09/05 - 2021/09/10)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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| 2018 - 2021 | 3rd to 5th Lisbon mini-school on Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Oeiras, Portugal, 2018, https://indico.lip.pt/event/345/
Caparica, Portugal, 2019, https://indico.lip.pt/event/513/
Caparica, Portugal, 2020, https://indico.lip.pt/event/633/ (2018 - 2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2020 | Organization of PhD school on Data Science, Lisbon (2018), Braga (2019), Coimbra (2020) (2018 - 2020)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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| 2017 - 2019 | Organization of a Hands-On about Cosmic Rays in the LIP/CFTP winter school (annual) (2017 - 2019)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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| 2015 - 2018 | MARTA / LATTES meeting
I have organized the 1st, 3rd and the 7th meetings
https://www.lip.pt/experiments/lattes/?p=meetings (2015 - 2018)
Meeting (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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| 2017 - 2017 | Organization of PhD school dedicated to particle physics: "The 2017 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2017)" with more than 100 students. https://physicschool.web.cern.ch/physicschool/ESHEP/ESHEP2017/default.html (2017 - 2017) | |
| 2013 - 2013 | Pierre Auger Collaboration Analysis meeting, Lisbon, Portugal ; Attendance: ~100 (2013/06/03 - 2013/06/07)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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| 2013 - 2013 | Organization of the SciNeGE 2014 - 10th Workshop on Science with New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments, Lisbon, Portugal Attendance: 70 (2013/06/04 - 2013/06/06) |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2009 - 2019 | Participation as a tutor on the Master Classes (Hands-on particles) that are held annually in Instituto Superior Técnico
Workshop
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
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| 2011 - 2017 | Participation as organizing member and jury on the National Physics Olympiads
Other
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Sociedade Portugal de Física (SPF), Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/02/19 | Constraining Charge-Parity symmetry violation in the interactions of the Higgs and W bosons
(Thesis) Arguer
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Beatriz Rebelo Rosalino (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2025/02/17 | Formal and Phenomenological Studies in the High-Energy Limit of QCD
President of the jury
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Dario Vaccaro (PhD)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2024/12/03 | Searching for HWW anomalous couplings with simulation-based inference
(Thesis) Arguer
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Marta Fernandes da Silva (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2024/12/03 | Planning for muon tomography campaigns in urban settings
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Francisco Manuel Alves Santos Ferreira (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2024/07/22 | Study of Drell-Yan production by charged pions in an isoscalar carbon target
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Iara Raquel Sá Neves (Other)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2023/12/05 | A digital twin for the energy system of Instituto Superior Técnico (Alameda Campus)
(Thesis) Arguer
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Sofia Dias Martins da Costa (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2021/12/03 | Novel optimization strategies for clinical FLASH proton therapy: evaluation on stereotactic lung treatment plans
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rodrigo José Santo (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2021/11/25 | A novel energy reconstruction for high-energy gamma-ray wide field of view observatories
Supervisor
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Laura Beatriz da Rocha Zink Fernandes Peres (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2021/11/25 | Probing multiparticle production properties of the first ultra-high energy cosmic ray-Air interaction in Extensive Air Shower
with low muon content
Supervisor
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Miguel Alexandre Jesus da Silva Martins (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2021/11/22 | Evaluation of the potential of a gamma-ray observatory to detect astrophysical neutrinos
Supervisor
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Pedro Valdez Machado de Jesus Costa (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2019/12/20 | Studies on the composition and energy of secondary cosmic rays with the tragaldabas detector
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Yanis Fontenla Barba (PhD)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - Campus Vida, Spain
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| 2018/10/15 | Average Lateral Distribution Function of Muons in 10^17 eV Extensive Air Showers
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Miguel Matos Ferreira (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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| 2017 | Measurement of the longitudinal profiles of cosmic ray air-showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Thesis Member
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Francisco Diogo (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2015 | Superrradiant amplication by stars and black holes
(Thesis) Main arguer
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João Rosa (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2013 | Study of Heavy Ion Collisions in the String Percolation Model
Thesis Member
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Irais Bautista (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019 - 2021 | Mechanics and Waves, Biomedicine Engineering and Applied Mathematics, 2nd semester | (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2013 - 2021 | Particle Physics, Physics Course - 1st semester | (Mestrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
| 2013 - 2018 | Electromagnetism and Optics, Informatics and computer sciences, 2nd semester | (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2025 | Excellence in Teaching Topics on Particle and Astroparticle physics course
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2024 | Excellence in Teaching Astroparticle Multi-messengers course
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2022 | Excellence in Teaching Topics on Particle and Astroparticle physics course
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2021 | Excellence in Teaching Particle Physics to the Technological Physics Engineer
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2020 | Excellence in Teaching mechanics to the courses applied mathematics and Biomedical engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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| 2019 | Excellence in Teaching electromagnetism and optics to the Computer Science Course
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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