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Miguel Fraústo de Brito Costa gets the 1st Honorable Mention in the Best Master Thesis Award of the Portuguese Materials Society (SPM) held last November at Oporto. The Thesis, “Development of Li-Sn alloys for application in Nuclear Fusion Reactors “, was supervised by Alberto Cabral Ferro, Rodrigo Mateus and Pedro Rosa.

Date: Thursday 1 March 2018

Venue: Meeting Room (2nd floor), Physics Building, Instituto Superior Técnico

CeFEMA is the local organiser of the COST Action CA15209 EURELAX training school on
“NMR relaxometry for food and environmental applications”.
Pavilhão de Física, Room P8, IST, Lisbon, 14-16 February 2018.
For more information visit http://eurelax.uwm.edu.pl

Ana Beatriz Ferreira gets the 1st Honorable Mention in the Best Master Thesis Award of the Portuguese Materials Society (SPM), with the Thesis “Tribological Behavior of Metal Surfaces Nanotextured with Femtosecond Lasers“, supervised by Rui Vilar and Amélia Almeida.

The award was attributed on the Materials International Day (November 8th, 2017) ceremony carried out at Universidade da Beira Interior, after scrutiny by a nominated jury of national experts from Portuguese Universities.

International Congress “Physics Cases and Instrumentation for EURISOL-DF, the next step towards EURISOL”
15 – 16 November, IST, Anfiteatro Abreu Faro

First meeting of the EURISOL-DF initiative including the three most important ISOL laboratories in Europe, SPIRAL2/GANIL, SPES/LNL and ISOLDE/CERN, that together with the partners ALTO/IPN Orsay, JYFL/Jyväskylä and the consortia in Belgium and Poland, will work torwards the EURISOL final construction.

Topics to be discussed:

• The formation and structure of r-process nuclei
• Physics and astrophysics of neutron deficient nuclei
• Physics of Light Exotic Nuclei” ISSOL “Going to the limits of mass, temperature, spin and isospin with heavy Radioactive Ion Beams
• Probing fundamental symmetries and interactions with RIBs” “Innovative Instrumentation for EURISOL-DF

Venue: Instituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa
Room: Amphiteater
Address: Avenida Gama Pinto 2, 1649-026 Lisbon
https://emilioconference.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Diná Afonso and Teresa Morgado represented CeFEMA Forum at Infoday: Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, Biotechnology, Ordem dos Engenheiros, Lisbon, July 7, 2016

Diná Afonso and António Ferraz represented CeFEMA Forum at the Industrial Technologies 2016 – Creating a Smart Europe, RAI Conference Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22-24, 2016

Rui Vilar has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Defense Technology, a journal recently created by Elsevier China and sponsored by China Ordnance Society.

Theoretical and/or Computational Condensed Matter Post-Doctoral Positions at Chinese and Portuguese Institutions

3 Post-Doctoral positions promoted by CSRC – The Beijing Computational Science Research Center (China)
In collaboration with researchers from:
– Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA)
Three Positions at CSRC, Beijing, China and CeFEMA (Period September 2016 – August 2019)
Applications deadline: 30 April 2016
Check here for full announcement and details.

Organized by the Theoretical Physics Group of CeFEMA
January 6, 2015
Instituto Superior Técnico
Meeting Room, Physics Department, Physics Building
From 11:00 to 17:30h
Check here for further details

Two CeFEMA researchers win Investigador FCT grants (2014 FCT Investigator Programme call).
The FCT Investigator Programme aims to create a talent base of scientific leaders, by providing 5-year funding for the most talented and promising researchers, across all scientific areas and nationalities.