About us: IST, ISR and IPFN

The IST (Instituto Superior Técnico) is the School of Engineering of the University of Lisbon, founded in 1911. Actually, IST has more than 10300 students (BSc, MSc and PhD), where 15% are PhD students and 15% are foreigners. There are 1030 faculty members and several Education Programmes (19 BSc, 24 MSc and 28 PhD) are offered. IST is organized in 8 Departments (Civil Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Engineering and Management, Physics and Mathematics) and hosts 33 Research Units and Research Laboratories.

The LARSyS is an associated laboratory of six R&D units based in four Portuguese Universities. The ISR (Institute for Systems and Robotics) is a Research Laboratory with 120 researchers with PhD and 178 grant holders (PhD and MSC students). The main intervention areas are robotics, computer vision, marine biology and geology, mathematics and sustainable environment.

The IPFN (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear) is a Research Laboratory with 90 researchers with PhD and 141 grant holders (PhD and MSC students). The main intervention areas are control and data acquisition, microwave diagnostics, remote handling, plasma theory and modeling.

Researchers from the two above referred Research Laboratories, ISR and IPFN, have been involved in RH activities for ITER since 1996.