The 17th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI took place on 24 November 2023, organized by ANACOM - Portuguese Committee of URSI, under the theme “Smart materials for radioscience”. Several of our researchers (of Instituto Superior Técnico) were distinguished.
The Congress, under the theme “Smart materials for radioscience”, aimed to address the topic of intelligent materials, those that have characteristics that change, both in their form and in their properties, responding and adapting to external stimuli. These are materials that can have diverse applications, particularly in telecommunications, allowing, for example, signal propagation more intelligently and efficiently.
The awards ceremony took place at ANACOM's headquarters, by Manuel Cabugueira, a Member of the institution's Board of Directors.
Filipa Prudêncio saw her research work “Engineering Arbitrary Metamaterial Responses with Spacetime Modulation” distinguished with the ANACOM-URSI prize. Over the years, Filipa has been accumulating distinctions. She has already received awards for “Best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics in the biennium 2013/2014, by Instituto Superior Técnico, Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, the Young Scientist Award, the Best Student Paper Award, and the Young Scientist Award from URSI in 2014; and, within the scope of the "7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics", she received 2nd Student Paper Competition.
Gonçalo Figueiredo won the 1st Best Student Award, for the paper “Photonic device based on a large-scale transparent luminescent solar concentrator for visible light communications for a sustainable Internet of Things”. For Gonçalo Figueiredo, “this award means a significant incentive to scientific and technological progress, especially for young researchers, this recognition is deeply gratifying, not only for highlighting the relevance of the work presented but also for further stimulating my desire to continue to investigate this area.” His Ph.D. research is being supervised by our researcher Paulo André and co-supervised by Rute Ferreira from CICECO/UA.
Guilherme Fonseca won the 3rd Best Student Award, for the paper “First-principles study of topological invariants of Weyl points in magnetized plasma”. Guilherme Fonseca considers that this “recognition encourages the continuation and excellence of his work.” His Ph.D. research is being supervised by our researcher Mário Silveirinha. Such as João Serra, who won the Best Research Project Award, with the work “Electromagnetic Spacetime Crystals” which is being developed also as part of the Simons Collaboration in Mathematics and Physical Sciences: Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries.
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