Iveta Rombeiro do Rego Pimentel (CD1C-52C4-DD48)

Curriculum Vitae

Iveta Rombeiro do Rego Pimentel

Iveta Pimentel is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She completed the Habilitation in Physics (2016) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (1989) from the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Oxford, Master in Physics (1986) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Degree in Physics (1982) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Her main area of research is Condensed Matter Physics, her scientific interests focus on the theoretical study of magnetic systems with disorder and frustration, strongly correlated electron systems and superconductors, quasicrystals and fractals. She also collaborated with a Biophysics research group in the analysis of complexity in brain and heart activity.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Iveta Rombeiro do Rego Pimentel

Citation names

Iveta Pimentel
I R Pimentel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: CD1C-52C4-DD48
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4136-149X
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=CooNUmAAAAAJ&hl=en
Researcher Id: N-2885-2015
Scopus Author Id: 22963602000

Email addresses

irpimentel@fc.ul.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone

217500057 (Professional)

Addresses

Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Ed. C8, 1749-016, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://cftc.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/membro.php?username=iveta (Scholar)
https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/irpimentel (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Condensed Matter Physics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/02/19 Concluded	Habilitation in Physics (Título de Agregado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1989/07/15 Concluded	DPhil in Physics (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Oxford Department of Theoretical Physics, United Kingdom "Critical Dynamics in Spin Glasses and Dilute Magnets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
1986/06/30 Concluded	Master in Physics (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Behavior of a Heisenberg Quantum Spin System in a Random Magnetic Field" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good
1982/12/16 Concluded	Degree in Physics (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Study of the Effect of Variation in Binding Energy in the Ionization of the L-shell" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2003/03/07 - Current	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

1989/11/01 - 2003/03/06	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

1986/07/01 - 1989/10/31	Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

1984/02/01 - 1986/06/30	Trainee Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/05/06 - Current	Member of the School Council of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

2017/07/07 - 2021/07/07	Member of the Senate of the University of Lisbon	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
1996/11/01 - 1997/07/31	Disordered magnetic systems PFMRH/BLS/32/96 Research Fellow CEA Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, France	Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica Concluded
1990/10/01 - 1991/09/30	High temperature superconductors PMCT/BPD/12/90 Research Fellow University of California at Los Angeles Department of Physics , United States	Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica Concluded
1990/04/01 - 1990/09/30	Spin glasses 3.B/A.12-2/90 Research Fellow University of California at Los Angeles Department of Physics , United States	Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento Concluded
1985/10/01 - 1988/12/31	Critical dynamics in spin glasses and dilute magnets 37/85/B PhD Student Fellow University of Oxford Department of Theoretical Physics, United Kingdom	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31	Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics UIDP/00618/2020 10.54499/UIDP/00618/2020 UIDB/00618/2020 10.54499/UIDB/00618/2020 Research Fellow FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics UID/FIS/00618/2019 Research Fellow Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade 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 Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2003/01/01 - 2018/12/31	Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics UID/FIS/00618 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal Concluded
1990/01/01 - 2002/12/31	Condensed Matter Physics Center PT/FCT/INIC/DSE/0727 Research Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Física da Matéria Condensada, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2002 - 2002	Study of the spin glass transition in disordered magnetic systems: analytical approach 628 B1 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal CEA Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, France	Instituto de Cooperação Científica e Tecnológica Internacional Ambassade de France au Portugal Concluded
1992 - 1995	Theory of spin glasses and high temperature superconductors PBIC/C/CEN/1110/92 Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica Concluded
1992 - 1992	Theoretical study on spin glasses: search for scaling laws for finite systems Proc 12136 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal CEA Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, France	Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica Ambassade de France au Portugal Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	I R Pimentel. "Spin Glasses". In Strongly Correlated Systems, Coherence and Entanglement, edited by J M Carmelo; P D Sacramento; J M B Lopes dos Santos; V Rocha Vieira, 235-258. Singapore: WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2007. Published • https://doi.org/10.1142/6391
Journal article	I R Pimentel; C D Dominicis. "Spin glass field theory with replica Fourier transforms". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 47 (2014): 455001(34pp). https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/45/455001. Published F Carvalho Dias; I R Pimentel; M Henkel. "Persistent current and Drude weight in mesoscopic rings". Physical Review B 73 (2006): 075109-1-075109-7. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.075109. Published F Carvalho Dias; I R Pimentel. "Spin correlations and magnetic susceptibilities of lightly doped antiferromagnets". Physical Review B 71 (2005): 224412-1-224412-5. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.224412. Published T Temesvári; C De Dominicis; I R Pimentel. "Generic replica symmetric field-theory for short range Ising spin glasses". European Physical Journal B 25 (2002): 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020041. Published I R Pimentel; T Temesvári; C De Dominicis. "Spin-glass transition in a magnetic field: a renormalization group study". Physical Review B 65 (2002): 224420-1-224420-16. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.224420. Published M T P Velhinho; I R Pimentel. "Lyapunov exponent for pure and random Fibonacci chains". Physical Review B 61 (2000): 1043-1050. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.1043. Published F Carvalho Dias; I R Pimentel; R Orbach. "Destruction of long-range antiferromagnetic order by hole doping". Physical Review B 61 (2000): 1371-1374. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.1371. Published M Costa; I R Pimentel; T Santiago; P Sarreira; J Melo; E Ducla-Soares. "The noise about chaos in heart rate - Reply". Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 11 (2000): 235-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8167.2000.tb00330.x. Published M Costa; I R Pimentel; T Santiago; M J Rebocho; J Melo; E Ducla-Soares. "Modelling a parasystolic rhythm in a heart-transplant patient". Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing 37 (1999): 492-496. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02513335. Published M Costa; I R Pimentel; T Santiago; P Sarreira; J Melo; E Ducla-Soares. "No evidence of chaos in the heart rate variability of normal and cardiac transplant human subjects". Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 10 (1999): 1350-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8167.1999.tb00190.x. Published C Silva; I R Pimentel; A Andrade; J P Foreid; E Ducla-Soares. "Correlation dimension maps of EEG from epileptic absences". Brain Topography 11 (1999): 201-209. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022281712161. Published I R Pimentel; F Carvalho Dias; L M Martelo; R Orbach. "Magnetic properties of weakly doped antiferromagnets". Physical Review B 60 (1999): 12329-12334. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.12329. Published I R Pimentel; R B Stinchcombe. "Crossover in the specific heat of dilute magnets induced by critical spin-wave dynamics". Physical Review B 50 (1994): 6860-6865. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.50.6860. Published I R Pimentel; R Orbach. "Spin excitations in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet with mobile holes". Physical Review B 46 (1992): 2920-2925. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.46.2920. Published V R Vieira; I R Pimentel. "Relevance of the imaginary-time branch in real-time formalisms for thermodynamic equilibrium: study of the Heisenberg model". Physical Review B 39 (1989): 7196-7204. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.39.7196. Published I R Pimentel; R B Stinchcombe. "Dynamic critical behavior of random spin chains in a field". Physical Review B 40 (1989): 4947-4951. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.40.4947. Published I R Pimentel; R B Stinchcombe. "Critical dynamics in Heisenberg ferromagnets and antiferromagnets near the percolation threshold". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 22 (1989): 3959-3967. https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/22/18/029. Published R B Stinchcombe; I R Pimentel. "Transfer-matrix scaling for anomalous dynamics of a vector spin-glass chain". Physical Review B 38 (1988): 4980-4983. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.4980. Published R B Stinchcombe; I R Pimentel. "Thermal crossover effects resulting from dilution-induced magnon critical dynamics". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 21 (1988): L807-L811. https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/21/16/005. Published I R Pimentel; R B Stinchcombe. "Localization and critical dynamics in a vector spin glass chain". EPL Europhysics Letters 6 (1988): 719-724. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/6/8/009. Published A P Jesus; I R Pimentel; J S Lopes. "The binding effect in alpha- and deuteron-induced L-shell X-ray production in the Z = 32-47 region". Nuclear Instruments and Methods In Physics Research 214 (1983): 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-5087(83)90536-7. Published
Magazine article	I R Pimentel. "Nobel Prize for Complex Systems", Gazeta de Física - Sociedade Portuguesa de Física , 2022, https://www.spf.pt/magazines/GFIS/507.
Thesis / Dissertation	I R Pimentel. "Critical Dynamics in Spin Glasses and Dilute Magnets". PhD, University of Oxford Department of Theoretical Physics, UK, 1989. I R Pimentel. "Behavior of a Heisenberg Quantum Spin System in a Random Magnetic Field". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal, 1986. I R Pimentel. "Study of the Effect of Variation in Binding Energy in the Ionization of the L-shell". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal, 1982.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021	Magnetic and Transport Properties of Doped Antiferromagnets	Vitor's Conference on Condensed and Other Matters Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021	Spin Glasses and Other Complex Systems	Physics Seminar Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016	High Temperature Superconductors	Physics Seminar Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
2006	Spin Correlations and Magnetic Susceptibilities of Lightly Doped Antiferromagnets	APS Annual Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics American Physical Society (Baltimore, United States)
1999	Lyapunov Exponents for Pure and Disordered Fibonacci Quasicrystals	Centennial Meeting of the APS American Physical Society (Atlanta, United States)
1996	Chaotic Dynamics in Epilepsy	3rd European Conference on Mathematics Applied to Biology and Medicine European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (Heidelberg, Germany)
1996	Spin Excitations and Transverse Susceptibility in the t-J Model at Low Doping	APS Annual Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics American Physical Society (St. Louis, United States)
1995	Chaos in Brain Activity	1st Portuguese-Spanish Biophysics Congress Sociedade Portuguesa de Biofísica (Lisboa, Portugal)
1994	Modification of Thermodynamic Properties of Dilute Magnets Induced by Critical Dynamics	Física 94 - 9º Encontro Nacional de Física Sociedade Portuguesa de Física (Covilhã, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2016 - 2016	Fibonacci and Thue-Morse Chains Supervisor of E. Carvalho	Degree in Physics (Degree) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Spin Glasses and Neural Networks Supervisor of J. Vaquinhas	Degree in Physics (Degree) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2002 - 2007	Magnetism and Transport in Strongly Correlated Systems with Disorder Supervisor of F. Carvalho Dias	PhD in Physics (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1997 - 1998	Heart Rate Variability in Normal and Transplanted Individuals Co-supervisor of M. Costa	Master in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1995 - 1997	Elementary Excitations in Fibonacci Quasicrystal Chains Supervisor of M. T. P. Velhinho	Master in Physics (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1994 - 1995	Magnetic Properties of the t-J Model for High Temperature Superconductors Supervisor of L. M. Martelo	Master in Physics (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	3rd Condensed Matter Physics National Conference CMPNC2021 (2022/02/28 - 2022/03/02) Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)	Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2010 - 2010	Condensed Matter Physics National Meeting 2010 (2010/02/18 - 2010/02/19) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
1994 - 1994	Workshop on Brain Dynamics: Fractals, Chaos and Neural Networks on Brain Activity (1994/07/18 - 1994/07/20) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022	Structural and Field Heterogeneity in Synchronization Dynamics on Complex Networks: Application to Neuronal Networks (Thesis) Main arguer	E. A. Wright (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2022	Interacting Low-Dimensonal Systems and Superconducting Phase Diagram Dependence on Density of States (Thesis) Main arguer	F. D. Santos (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2017	Magnetic Properties of Quantum Electronic Systems with Nontrivial Geometries (Thesis) Main arguer	J. D. Gouveia (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2016	Temporal Evolution of Localized States of the Lieb Network (Thesis) Main arguer	I. A. Macieira (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2015	Application of Classification Techniques in Time series (Thesis) Main arguer	L. M. Cruz (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2014	Phase Transitions and Nonlinear Phenomena in Neuronal Networks (Thesis) Main arguer	M. A. Lopes (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2013	Interacting Agents on Complex Networks and Stochastic Processes in Them (Thesis) Main arguer	F. L. Forgerini (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2010	Stochastic Resonance in Neuronal Networks (Thesis) Main arguer	M. A. Lopes (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal
2008	Superconductivity Modeling with Numerical Study (Thesis) Main arguer	A. S. Silva (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2005	Biophysical Approach to Physiologic Time Series (Thesis) Main arguer	M. Costa (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2001	Numerical Study of Growth Models Induced by Random Particle Movement (Thesis) Main arguer	S. Queirós (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1998	Spin Tunneling in the Lipkin Model (Thesis) Main arguer	N. Sousa (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
1997	Effects of Nesting in Fermion Systems (Thesis) Arguer	F. Abreu (PhD) Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, France
1997	Criticality in Ionic Fluids (Thesis) Arguer	A. G. Moreira (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1993	Two Studies of the Mass Renormalization of a Heavy Particle in a Fermionic Sea (Thesis) Main arguer	F. Abreu (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1990	Dynamic Study in the Potts and Ising Models. Fokker-Planck Equation (Thesis) Main arguer	J. F. Mendes (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2015 - 2018	Master in Physics Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2015 - 2018	Degree in Physics Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2007 - 2009	Degree in Physics Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
1998 - 2007	Erasmus Program in Physics Coordinator	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

1985	Overseas Research Student Award Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Other distinction

1996	Visiting Researcher CEA Service de Physique Théorique de Saclay, France
1990	Visiting Researcher University of California at Los Angeles Department of Physics , United States