News and Highlights

The Structural and Dynamical Properties of Solids Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS has launched the online workshop series: The EPS Structural Dynamics Afternoon Online Workshop. This event is co-organized by IFIMUP researcher Joaquim Agostinho Moreira and aims at gathering scientific contributions dealing with Dynamical and Structural Properties in Condensed Matter topics.

The workshops take place once a semester online and regroup 2 invited contributions from established researchers in the field and contributions from doctoral students, selected by our scientific committee.

The organizing committee has the pleasure to invite you to the 2nd EPS Structural Dynamics Afternoon Online Workshop on December 7th starting at 14:00 PM (CEST). Here, DFT and Ab Initio Calculations in Condensed Matter Physics will be the focus.

Please save the link to attend the workshop: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/92394463088?pwd=OVc5Tlg4SGFoUUY3VFBFeG1tOWx2Zz09

Next Wednesday, November 2 at 14h in room 106 and online, Joana Silva will give the 7th session of the 2022 IFIMUP Talks series. She is an IFIMUP PhD student and her talk will be on "Magneto-active elastomers for ultrasound sensors and actuators".

By Catarina Dias

Next Friday, October 21 at 12h in room 106 and online, João Horta Belo will give the 6th session of the 2022 IFIMUP Talks series. He is an IFIMUP Junior Researcher and his talk will be on "Unveiling structural transitions kinetics of magnetocaloric materials 1st-order phase transitions ", a work that he developed under his Fulbright award.

By Catarina Dias

IFIMUP (Dr. João Ventura) is part of the consortium in the Project NeuroSpark funded on 1 M€ over 3 years by Fundación "la Caixa" under the 2022 CaixaResearch Call for Proposals in Health Research in the area of Neuroscience. The host is i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Ciência (Dr. Paulo Aguiar) in partnership with IFIMUP and Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - CSIC, Spain (Dr. Liset Menendez de la Prida). This initiative funded 33 new biomedicine and health research projects in Spain and Portugal.

The project titled "Innovative neuromodulation strategies to treat brain diseases" (NeuroSpark) aims to develop and validate the first neuromodulation strategy based on electrical nanocomponents capable of emulating neuronal synapses, providing real-time adaptive control of neuronal activity.

By Catarina Dias

Catarina Dias, an IFIMUP post-doc researcher, presented her current scientific work (Resistive switching devices as synaptic interfaces between biological neuronal populations) at NANO2022, 6-10 June in Seville, having been awarded the prize for “Best Talk” in the “Resistive switching: physics, devices and applications” symposia.

By Rui Vilarinho

IFIMUP young students were present in this year edition of IJUP (Youth Research at the University of Porto) from 6 to 8 of May, being a strong presence in the Physics and Engineering sessions. Furthermore, two students were awarded with best Oral Presentation in Math, Physics & Astronomy (Inês Ornelas) and in Engineering (Inês Batista), and one with best Poster Presentation in Physics (Andreia Silva). Inês Ornelas (top left picture) is a MSc student in Enginnering physics (FCUP), under the supervision of Ana Pires and André Pereira. Inês Batista (top right) is a MSc student in Biomedical Engineering (FEUP), under the supervision of André Pereira (IFIMUP) and Cristina Martins (i3S) and collaboration of Mariana Rocha (IFIMUP). Andreia Silva (bottom) is a MSc student in Enginnering physics (FCUP), under the supervision of Catarina Dias and João Ventura.

The deadline for abstracts submissions to "Magnetism in Portugal 2022 - Young Researchers" is May 15th. The abstracts must be submitted through the website of the conference, following the format of the template word document that can be found in the "Home" tab.

We remind you that this meeting is devoted to young researchers, it is opened to all sub-topics of Magnetism and it will take place at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto (FCUP) on September 12 and 13, 2022.

Any doubts or comments can be sent to NPM e-mail: npm@spf.pt

By João Horta

Next Friday, April 22 at 14h online via Zoom Colibri, Vanessa Lima will give the 3rd session of the 2022 IFIMUP Talks series. She is a researcher from the Laboratório de Pesquisa em Nanotecnologia, Centro de Tecnologias Estratégicas do Nordeste - CETENE (Recife, Brazil). Her talk will be on "New strategies for semiconductors materials synthesis: pulsed anodization".

By Catarina Dias

IFIMUP researchers presented their work at AEM2022, a premier conference series (18th series) on alternative energy materials which was held from 6-8 April 2022 both virtually and at Imperial College London. Furthermore IFIMUP is also part of the Scientific (João Pedro Araújo, João Ventura) and Organising (Estelina da Silva) Committees.

Next Friday, April 1 at 14h online via Zoom Colibri, Dénise Narciso and Ana Bensabat Paulino will give the 2nd session of the 2022 IFIMUP Talks series. They are two FCUP students selected for the financed 2021 FCT Summer Project "Verão Com Ciência - IFIMUP". Their talk will be on "Study of the Alloys with the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect: Gd5Si2Ge2 and Mn0.9Cu0.1CoGe".

By Catarina Dias

Next Friday, March 11 at 14h online via Zoom Colibri, Cláudia Fernandes will give the 1st session of the 2022 IFIMUP Talks series. Cláudia Fernandes is a PhD student currently developing her thesis at IFIMUP. Her talk will be on "Rod mangle rotation patterns for magnetic field generation".

By Catarina Dias

The Expansion and Compression of Materials project, a transversal pedagogical platform, authored by researchers of IFIMUP, João P. Araújo, André Pereira and João Horta, and Carla Rosa, professor from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), was one of the seven winners of the annual competition for Pedagogical Innovation Projects, organized by the U.Porto.

The project proposes the introduction of a new laboratory work “Expansion and compression of materials” in the UC “Laboratories of Physics III” of the 3rd year of the Physics and Physics Engineering degrees.

By Catarina Dias

Rui Vilarinho talked at "90 segundos de ciência" (Antena 1, RTP)about his work on Raman spectroscopy for different applications. (Audio in Portuguese).

By Catarina Dias