PARADiSE
the PlasmA RoAD to Solar fuEls
People
Research Team
Vasco Guerra
I am Associate Professor at IST and the PI of PARADiSE. I lead the studies on Nanosecond Repetitively Pulsed Discharges (T2) and plasma-surface interactions (T5).
Carlos Pintassilgo
I am Associate Professor at Universidade do Porto, and co-PI of PARADiSE. I lead the studies on the influence of O2, Ar and CH4 (Task 4).
Luís L. Alves
I am Full Professor at IST and head of the N-PRiME team of IPFN. I lead the studies on the influence of H2O and N2 (Task 3).
Joaquim Branco
I am researcher at IST and at Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN). I am involved in tasks 2 and 6.
Maik Budde
I am a PhD student under the framework of project PIONEER. I study the influence of H2O and CH4 in CO2 plasmas.
Tiago Dias
I am a PhD student under the framework of the APPLAuSE programme. I develop Kinetic Monte Carlo codes and study nanosecond pulsed discharges.
Chloé Fromentin
I am a PhD student under the framework of project PIONEER. I develop reaction mechanisms for CO2, O2 and N2 plasmas.
Nuno Pinhão
I am researcher at IST and IPFN. I lead the development of the proof-of-concept prototype (Task 6).
Tiago Silva
I am researcher at IST and IPFN. I am developing the models for vibrational kinetics and lead the studies on RF discharges (Task 1).
Carlos Henriques
I am Associate Professor at IST and head of the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Catalytic Processes of CQE. I am involved in the studies of plasma-surface interactions.
Consultants
Ron White
I am the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University and the Head of the Physical Sciences Academic Group. We collaborate in the study of the electron kinetics and development of electron impact cross section sets.
Richard Engeln
I was an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics of TUe and have recently moved to ASML. We collaborate in the experimental study of CO2/N2 and CO2/H2O plasmas, using a variety of laser diagnostics.
Olivier Guaitella
I am Researcher at Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique. We collaborate in the experimental characterisation of RF discharges and in the study of fundamental gas-phase and plasma-surface interactions.
Dmitry Lopaev
I am Leading Researcher at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. We collaborate in the study of the volume and surface kinetics of O2 and CO2 plasmas.
Richard van de Sanden
I am the Scientific Director of the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems, Full Professor at TUe, and group leader at DIFFER. We collaborate in various topics of PARADiSE, including plasma-surface interactions.
Milan Šimek
I am Deputy Head of the Pulsed Plasma Systems team of the Institute of Plasma Physics from the Czech Academy of Sciences. We collaborate in the experimental characterisation of nanosecond pulsed plasma sources at both low and high pressures.
Tatyana Rakhimova
I am Leading Researcher at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University. We collaborate in the development and validation of kinetic schemes and in the experimental determination of surface loss frequencies.
Paolo Tosi