Frederico Fiúza and Hugo Terças selected for Young Scientists Seminar
Five of the eleven new members of the Class of Sciences of the Young Scientists Seminar (YSS) are professors and researchers from Instituto Superior Técnico. Their names, including IPFN members Frederico Fiúza and Hugo Terças, were announced by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences for the 2024-2026 triennium, along with other leading figures of the Portuguese scientific community. They are part of a list of young scientists with “academic and professional CVs of the highest distinction, preferably with international recognition”.
Frederico Fiúza is a Professor of Plasma Physics at Técnico and, in October last year, he was elected fellow of the American Physical Society for his contributions to this field, particularly in the generation of energetic particles from collisionless shocks, magnetic reconnection and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities.
Hugo Terças is also a professor of Advanced Plasma Physics at Técnico. In 2020, he published a prominent article in the journal Physical Review D in which he suggested a new method for producing axions in the laboratory.
With the aim of “encouraging young scientists of exceptional merit to join the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa' the YSS is made up of researchers aged between 30 and 40. According to the Academy itself, this Seminar “is encouraged to develop activities of a transdisciplinary nature and social relevance, producing documents that can be used by science policy makers and society in general”.
