APPLAuSE

Ana Ribeiro
Ana Ribeiro is a PhD Student from Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear at Instituto Superior Técnico, Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear, Bobadela, Portugal. Her current research interests lie in the study of the application of Ion Beam techniques in the analysis of the irradiation effects in materials like High Entropy Alloys, especially interested in determining their applicability as plasma-facing materials for nuclear fusion facilities.

Diogo Carvalho
Diogo obtained his M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2018. For his Master's Thesis, he developed machine learning algorithms for fusion plasma tomography with applications to JET and COMPASS. After his studies, he was a research fellow for IPFN's FRIENDS project and later a trainee at the Artificial Intelligence & Operations Innovation Team of the ESA. Currently, he is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Luís O. Silva, Prof. Diogo R. Ferreira and Prof. E. Paulo Alves working on the intersection of machine learning and high performance computing for laser-plasma simulations.

Gonçalo Vaz
Gonçalo Vaz was born in 1998, in Guarda, Portugal. In 2016 initiated an Integrated Master's in Engineering Physics at IST, later joining the Group of Lasers and Plasmas in 2020 as an intern. The following year, he concluded his MSc in this group under the supervision of Drs. Gonçalo Figueira and Hugo Pires, with a thesis titled: Nonlinear optics with ultrashort mid-infrared laser pulses.
Presently he is enrolled in the APPLAuSE program exploring the capabilities of high-power laser sources and nonlinear optics in the laboratory.

Lucas Ansia Fernández
Lucas was born in the small town of Ourense, Galicia. As a Master student, he worked at the Fusion Institute of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he obtained his Master's degree in Nuclear Science and Technology in 2021. His thesis focused on the development of multilateral hydrodynamic codes.
In 2022 he joined the APPLAuSE program and started his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Marta Fajardo and Dr. Gareth Williams, on the modeling of optically driven solid-density plasmas.

Óscar Amaro
Óscar Amaro obtained his MSc Degree in Engineering Physics in 2021, from IST. He is currently developing his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Marija Vranic on QED-Plasma Physics and Quantum Algorithms within the APPLAuSE program. This work addresses issues such as optimal positron production in laser-electron scattering in current and near-future Petawatt facilities and the possibility of using quantum computers to solve plasma physics problems. Before enrolling in the APPLAuSE program, he joined GoLP-EPP as an undergraduate student in 2018 for an internship.