Team
- Research
- Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas
Our interdisciplinary team is composed by the following members:
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- Tito Mendonça
Tito Mendonça
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Prof. José Tito Mendonça is the scientific coordinator of the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas (LQP) of the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN), and a retired Full Professor of the Physics Department of the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He is a former Head of the Physics Department of IST, a former leader of the Group of Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP), and a former Director of the Association Euratom-IST for Fusion Research. He developed pioneering work on photon acceleration, neutrino-MHD and twisted waves in plasmas. His current interests include: ultra-cold matter, collective processes in BECs, superfluidity of light; twisted photons, and particle acceleration with orbital angular momentum; Photon turbulence, Rydberg plasmas and quantum technologies.
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- José Rodrigues
José Rodrigues
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José Rodrigues is an Assistant professor of Physics at Universidade do Algarve and researcher at the Quantum Plasmas team since 2011. Education: PhD in 2004 in Engineering Physics. Skills and interests: experimental physics, cold atoms.
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- Hugo Terças
Hugo Terças
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Hugo Terças is an assistant researcher at the Quantum Plasmas Team (currently part of the Experimental Physics Group @ IPFN). He obtained his PhD in 2011 in the field of cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates. After that, he pursued his activity in France and in Austria in the fields of quantum optics and exciton-plasmon polaritons. Hugo has broad interests in physics but his expertise comprises applications of quantum kinetic theory, fluid and statistical mechanics to investigate complex behaviour of quantum plasmas and fluids. He is also enrolled in many activities of the Physics Department of IST, by delivering courses and supervising MSc and PhD students.
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- João Rodrigues
João Rodrigues
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João D. Rodrigues is a researcher at the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas. During his PhD at IPFN he develop the first laser cooling experiment in Portugal, with original experiments on turbulent light transport and photon bubble instabilities. Currently, he is also working on the dynamics of highly interacting Rydberg atoms and superfluidity of light, among other projects.
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- Rolando Salinas
Rolando Salinas
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Rolando is from La Paz, Bolivia. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Physics at Mayor de San Andrés University in La Paz with the research paper called “Study of the solution of the Schrödinger equation for an unharmonic potential well using the Numerov method”. As an undergraduate student, he became a teacher assistant for various subjects in theoretical physics and math applied to physics. He also worked as a tutor in physics and mathematics for high school and college students and was part of several Physics fairs organized for the public by the Physics department of the Mayor de San Andrés University. After graduating, he was granted a scholarship from the Swedish government to continue his studies at Umeå University in Northern Sweden. His main field of study was computational physics. After two years of study he obtained a MSc. in Physics with his research in plasma physics. The title of his Masters thesis was “Cyclotron damping in Magnetized Plasmas”.
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- Ruggero Giampaoli
Ruggero Giampaoli
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Ruggero studied Engineering Physics at Politecnico di Milano where he obtained both bachelor and master degrees.
In his career he has been committed in different topics. During his bachelor he dealt with ultrathin films and he graduated with a thesis titled ‘Growth studies of metastable Co on Fe(001) and on Fe(001)-p(1x1)O’.
He carried out his master thesis at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France focusing on spectroradiometric temperature measurements at megabar pressures. Before starting his PhD, he spent several months working at ESRF and at Diamond Light Source where he took part in many x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction experiments, gaining valuable experience of cooperation in international environments.
Currently, he is interested in plasma-like behaviour of cold atoms and he joined the Laboratory for Quantum Plasmas at IPFN to carry out his PhD thesis.
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- Ana Vieira
Ana Vieira
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Margarida Vieira is a PhD Student at at the Quantum Plasmas Team (currently part of the Experimental Physics Group @ IPFN). Her main topic of research relates to fundamentals and applications on quantum kinetic theory of acoustic phenomena in ultracold matter.
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- Miskeen Khan
Miskeen Khan
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M. Miskeen Khan is a Ph.D. research student at IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico. Earlier he completed his Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) from Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan in the year 2015. Currently, he is working in quantum mechanical state engineering of mesoscopic/macroscopic mechanical systems with their applications in metrology and quantum information processing. His further interests lie in the quantum stochastic process, open system dynamics, and quantum correlations.
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- Clara Pereira
Clara Pereira
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- Pedro Cosme
Pedro Cosme
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- Nuno Gil
Nuno Gil
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