Research Interests
I am mainly interested in phenomenological aspects of theoretical Condensed Matter Physics.
Main research subjects:
Main research subjects:
- Physics of graphene and post-graphene two-dimensional materials
- Topological phases of matter
- Strongly correlated electron systems
- Low dimensional systems
Research experience
Positions:
Projects:
- 2021 to present Member of the Associated Lab Laboratory of Physics for Materials and Emergent Technologies (LaPMET), Portugal.
- 2019 to present Permanent member of Physics Center of Minho and Porto Universities (CF-UM-UP), FCUP, Porto, Portugal.
- 2012 to present Associate member at CSRC - Computational Science Research Center, Bijing, China.
- 2015-2018 Permanent member of Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 2012-2014 Permanent member of Center for Physics of Fundamental Interactions (CFIF), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 2009-2012 Post-doctoral researcher, Group of Theory and Simulation of Materials at the Madrid Institute for Material Science (ICMM-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
- 2008 Visitor post-doctoral researcher, Division Condensed Matter, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Dresden, Germany.
- 2005 Visitor PhD student researcher, Condensed Matter Theory Group, Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, USA.
- 2004-2008 PhD student researcher, Theoretical Physics Center at University of Porto (CFP) and Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
- 2002-2003 Graduated student researcher, Theoretical Physics Center at University of Porto (CFP) and Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Projects:
- 2022-2023 Non-trivial topological phases of incommensurate two-dimensional electronic systems
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
Advanced Computing Projects (FCT/CPCA/2021/01)
Role: coordinator
Ref. CPCA/A1/470243/2021 - 2022 Quantum Matter - Materials & Concepts – Summer Training Program 2022
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
“Verão com Ciência” program: 7 scholarships for 1 month
Role: project coordinator and supervisor of 1 scholarship - 2021 Quantum Matter - Materials & Concepts – Summer Training Program 2021
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
“Verão com Ciência” program: 7 scholarships for 1 month
Role: project coordinator and supervisor of 3 scholarships - 2020-2021 Magic-Angle Graphene Bilayer
Sponsorerd by Computational Science Research Centre, Beijing, China
Role: member - 2020-2021 Effects of disorder in nodal loop semimetals
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
Advanced Computing Projects (FCT/CPCA/2020/01)
Role: coordinator
Ref. CPCA/A00/7421/2020 - 2020-2021 Incommensurability effects in low-dimensional Quantum Materials
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
Advanced Computing Projects (FCT/CPCA/2020/01)
Role: member
Ref. CPCA/A00/7343/2020 - 2020 Quantum Matter - Materials & Concepts – Summer Training Program 2020
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
“Verão com Ciência” program: 10 scholarships for 3 months
Role: supervisor of 2 scholarships - 2016-18 Vertical Transport and Photoresponse in van der Waals hybrid structures
Bruno Amorim's Marie Slodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Funding agency: European Commission, H2020
Role: supervisor
Ref. 706538 - TranspvdW - 2014-2015 Emergent quantum states in novel two-dimensional materials
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
Role: coordinator
Ref. EXPL/FIS-NAN/1728/2013 - 2011-2013 Models for graphene
Funding agency: MICINN, Spain
Role: member
Ref. FIS2011-23713 - 2009-2011 Electronic and structural properties of graphene and related materials
Funding agency: MICINN, Spain
Role: member
Ref. FIS2008-00124 - 2009-2011 Electronic properties of nanostructured graphene
Funding agency: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
Role: coordinator
Ref. Programa de Estímulo à Investigação 2008 - 2007-2009 Transport properties of graphene and related systems
Funding agency: FCT, Portugal
Role: member
Ref. PTDC/FIS/64404/2006