Essay 2023-24
Important dates
Deadline for submission: April 30Page for submission: to be announced
Essay presentations: May 31
Online
Essay Guidelines.
The Scientific Council of MAP-fis has issued this document clarifying the objectives of the essay and the form of your written report.
Essay Topics
| Topic | Student | Tutor |
| Emergence of novel properties at the interfaces in oxide heterostructures and superlattices | Alexandre Silva | Luis Silvino Alves Marques |
| Towards high efficiency flexible CIGS solar cells: light management and passivation strategies. | Andrés David Pardo Perdomo | |
| Machine learning anomaly detection techniques for the search of new signals at LHC with ATLAS experiment | Annalisa Berti | Nuno Castro, Rute Pedro |
| Naturally Layered Ruddlesden-Popper Ferroelectrics towards Energy Efficient Materials | António Cesário | Armandina Lima Lopes |
| Biofunctional Cyclic Dipeptide Nanofibers for Energy Harvesting and Nonlinear Optical Conversion | Daniela Santos | Bernardo Almeida |
| Spatially and temporally modulated active patch for skin cancer treatment | Diana Bogas | Clarisse Marta de Oliveira Ribeiro |
| Dusty Atmospheric Rivers: relationship between intense transport of water vapour and aerosols in the Iberian Peninsula | Diogo Luís | Carla Maria dos Santos Gama da Silva; Irina Gorodetskaya- |
| Bootstrap and Holographic CFTs | Filipe Serrano | Vasco Gonçalves |
| Insect-Brain Inspired Neuromorphic Nanophotonic Devices | João Duarte Gonçalves Azevedo | Michael Scott Belsley |
| Hybrid optical fiber sensors interfaced with interfaced with micro/nano fabrication technologies: towards a multisensing platform | João Pedro Fidalgo Santos | Marta Sofia dos Anjos Ferreira |
| Non-linear optical response | João Pinho | João Manuel Viana Parente Lopes |
| Properties of topological matter lacking translational invariance | João Santos Silva | Eduardo Filipe Vieira de Castro |
| José Pedro Mota Valente Ferreira | Miguel Zilhão | |
| Extreme mass ratio inspirals around non-Kerr compact objects | Manuel Mariano | Carlos Alberto Ruivo Herdeiro |
| Gravitational echoes from primordial phase transitions | Marco Finetti | Antonio Morais |
| Impactos das alterações climáticas na formação de Cold Air Pools na Região Demarcada do Douro | Marta Sofia Tavares Teixeira | David João da Silva Carvalho; João Carlos Andrade Santos; António Graça |
| Solving the Hubble tension with nonmininallly coupled f(R) theories of gravity | Miguel Barroso Varela | Orfeu Bertolami |
| Study of the magnetic and vibrational properties of NdFeO3 | Muhammad Aasim | Name: Dr. Estelina Lora Silva , Prof. Dr. Joaquim Agostinho Moreira |
| Development of polarimetric remote sensing technique for road condition inquiry and fast probing | Nazar Romanyshyn | José Carlos Viana Gomes |
| Remediação ambiental | Paulo Tchimbumbuanjila Boano | Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez |
| Accretion patterns from exotic compact objects | Pedro Passos | Héctor Raúl Olivares Sánchez |
| Combined local probe technique and ab-initio calculation on layered Perovskites | Pedro Sousa | João Pedro Esteves Araújo |
| Understanding anomalies in liquid water with upconversion thermometry | Ramon da Silva Raposo Filho | Luís António Ferreira Martins Dias Carlos |
| Coding the Cosmos, Searching for Superstrings | Ricarda Heilemann | Carlos Martins |
| A multi-point bootstrap approach to Quantum Field Theory | Ricardo Almeida Rodrigues | Miguel Costa |
| Superconductivity in quasiperiodic moiré materials | Ricardo Oliveira | Eduardo V. Castro |
| SHEDRACH CHIAHA | ||
| Advanced Photoelectrodes in Photoelectrochemical Cells for Solar Water Splitting and Green Hydrogen Generation | Sofia Mendonça Gonçalves | Arlete Ondina Alves da Silva Apolinário |
| Deep-Learning Classification and Parameter Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae | Solange Nunes | Professor António Joaquim Onofre Abreu Ribeiro Gonçalves |
| Classification of glitches in gravitational-wave detectors using Deep Learning techniques | Tiago Fernandes | Antonio Onofre |
| Versatile Neuromorphic Frameworks for Optical Computing | Vicente Vieira Rocha | Nuno Miguel Azevedo Silva |
| Light and Ultralight Dark Matter: exploring novel synergies between particle physics, strong gravity and cosmology | Vinícius Luiz Barbosa Oliveira | António de Aguiar e Pestana de Morais |