Hugo Manuel Pinto

Name Hugo Manuel Pinto
Work Groups Work Group 4 - Theory
Laboratory Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
Organisation Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Website http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/qsystems/people/pinto/index.html
Areas of Research Diamond, Graphene, Carbon Nanostructures
Research Keywords Diamond, Graphene, Carbon Nanostructures

Areas of Future Interest Diamond, Graphene, Carbon Nanostructures

Selected Publications:

Brief CV
Degrees:
Master on Physics of Advanced Materials, Theoretical and Computational Methods on Condensed Matter at University of Minho, Portugal. Thesis on ‘Optical properties of TiCxOy from ab-initio calculations’.

Degree in Physics, University of Minho, Portugal.

Current position

PhD student at the University of Exeter. Research interests are graphene and diamond.
Supervisor: Professor Robert Jones


Practical experience

2006-2007
Researcher at Institute Agilus for Innovation in Information Technologies, developing simulation tools for the characterization of thin films optical properties in the framework of the European project TERMOGLAZE.

2005-2006
Graduation thesis: “Ab-initio studies of defects in germanium”, at Physics Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal. Using the DFT theory, AIMPRO code, the formation energy and the migration barrier of the germanium vacancy were calculated.
Supervisor: José Pedro Coutinho

2003-2006
Development of 3D model for the simulation of thin film growth using Monte Carlo techniques. The model was developed in Fortran 90 using parallel computing (MPI). This project was carried out in collaboration with CERN and from 2005 to 2006 was supported by FCT (DeCsI - Degradation of RICH CsI Detectors).

2003
Summer Student in the HMPID group of the ALICE experiment at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Study of the quantum efficiency of CsI thin films for photocathodes applications in the UV region.
Supervisor: Emile Schyns and Herbert Hödlmoser


2001-2003
Research in SnO2 thin films produced by DC sputtering for gas sensor applications in the Functional Coatings Group at University of Minho.
Supervisor: José Miguel Correia Pires and Vasco Teixeira


Participation in projects

Termoglaze
Project nr. COOP – CT – 2005 -017761
Supported by: European Union
Since: September 2006

DeCsI - Degradation of RICH CsI Detectors
Project nr. POCI/FP/63442/2005
Supported by: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
From: October 2005
To: December 2006


Awards

Honorable mention in the VI National Meeting of Physics Students (2004).

Prize for the best presentation in the IV National Meeting of Physics Students (2002).