Apresentação Pessoal

Scientific interests:

• Climatology and climate change
• Geophysics
• Planetary Sciences
• Mineralogy of asteroids and meteorites
• Cooperative learning
• Self-regulated learning

Current research areas:

• Study of Meteorites and Asteroids – modelling of reflectance spectra of meteorites and asteroids and development of a consistent methodology for determination of the mineralogy of asteroids from their reflectance spectra
• Rock Physics – simulation of charge generation and transport in rocks under mechanical action
• Physics Education – active learning, automatic online assessment and self-regulated learning.

Research Unit:

Centre for Earth and Space Research of the University of Coimbra (CITEUC) - Codirector
https://ucpages.uc.pt/fctuc/citeuc/

Some Projects:

GeoPlaNet-SP project is based on a partnership of 5 European Universities with complementary expertise in Astrophysics and Astronomy, in Planetary Geology and in Planetary and Earth Sciences: Nantes (France) coordinator of the project, Coimbra and Porto (Portugal), Padova and Chieti/Pescara (Italy) and a start-up VR2Planets (France) specialised in Virtual Reality (VR). Activities will be held in 3 European countries. Associated partners are a start-up in Portugal specialised in space instrumentation and the 15 other GeoPlaNet Institutions including the European Space Agency. URL:https://lpg-umr6112.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1267:geoplanet-project-consortium&catid=11:recherche&lang=en

URL: https://www.c4g-pt.eu/about-2/

The Collaboratory for Geosciences (C4G) is a distributed research infrastructure (RI) that promotes the networking of researchers and the sharing of equipment, data, collections and tools in Solid Earth Sciences (SES). C4G brings together 15 major players in Solid Earth Sciences in Portugal, from 6 universities, 2 private associations and 3 government agencies.

Other activities:

• FCUP member of coordinating council of C4G (Collaboratory for Geosciences) (since 2013)
• Coordinator of LA12 - Integrated Services for Cosmic Risk Mitigation – C4G (since 2018)
• Member of the Implementation Committee - C4G (since 2020)
• Team Member of Rock Physics and Geomechanics Laboratories WG3 – C4G (since 2013)
• Asteroid Day Portugal Coordinator (since 2016)
• Co-coordinator of experimental activity of Summer School of Physics (FCUP, since 2016)
• Co-coordinator of experimental activity in Junior University (FCUP, since 2017).
• Creating Online Formative Assessment Tests in Physics, Workshop 10-Física 2018 (co-instructor) (2018)

Positions

Áreas de Interesse

1. Ciências Físicas
2. Ciências Físicas > Física > Propriedades da matéria condensada > Física de semicondutores
3. Ciências Físicas > Física > Física do estado sólido
4. Ciências Naturais > Ciências do ambiente > Alterações globais
5. Ciências Sociais > Ciências da educação > Métodos de ensino
6. Ciências Sociais > Ciências da educação > Estudos sobre aprendizagem