Bernardo Malaca wins Best PhD thesis award
Former APPLAuSE student Bernardo Malaca, now HPC SysAdmin at Centro Nacional de Computação Avançada (Portugal), has received the award for the Best PhD Thesis in Optics and Photonics in Portugal, 2020, sponsored by the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics – SPOF.
The thesis, entitled “Superradiant and coherent radiation emission in plasma accelerator light sources” was supervised by Prof. Jorge Vieira (IPFN/Physics Dept., Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa) and by Prof. Ricardo Fonseca (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa).
In his thesis, Bernardo pioneered a light source concept that leverages collective effects to unlock superradiance and coherent emission in plasma-based accelerators. This work was published in Nature Photonics.
Congratulations Bernardo!
