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The researchers Susana Silva and Raquel Queirós were awarded by the Portuguese Optics and Photonics Society with a best PhD thesis and an honourable mention, respectively, for their doctoral studies in Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP). The researchers concluded their doctoral studies in 2013 while doing research at INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP)*.
05th June 2014
INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) has recently concluded the first prototype of a system with Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) technology, which measures the properties of reflected light in order to obtain information, such as distance and the 3D shape of a certain object.
06th December 2013
Between 23 and 26 July, the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP) hosted the RIAO/OPTILAS conference (8th Iberoamerican Conference on Optics and 11th Latin-American meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications). The event was organised by the Portuguese Society for Photonics, together with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, FCUP and INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic System Unit (UOSE).
01st August 2013
On 12 June, the Micro and Nanofabrication Unit of the Centre of Materials, University of Porto (NMTEC/CEMUP), an infrastructure dedicated to research on materials, inaugurated a new Clean Room. INESC TEC has been a partner of CEMUP and will be one of clean room’s main users.
04th July 2013
Ana Rita Ribeiro, a researcher at INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE), was selected to receive a ThorLabs Full Scholarship to participate in the 6th International Graduate Summer School – Biophotonics '13, which will take place between 8 and 15 June in Sweden. Of 70 registrations accepted, the Portuguese researcher was the only one to receive the scholarship that will cover registration and accommodation costs.
07th May 2013
INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) has recently started working on a European project where the aim is to install optical fibre sensors in coal piles in self-combustion resulting from mining. The goal is to remotely monitor the evolution of scenarios associated to combustion processes.
08th March 2013
INESC TEC, which brings together close to 700 researchers, of which 230 have PhDs, continues to maintain a high level of excellence in the science and technology produced by its researchers. Proof of that is the exponential increase in the publication of scientific papers.
28th February 2013
Orlando Frazão, researcher at INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE), received the Fernando Bragança Gil 2012 Award for the best PhD thesis in Physics written in Portugal between 2009 and 2010. This award is given by the Portuguese Physics Society.
01st February 2013
In 2012, BIP featured several (good) news about researchers awarded for their work in different components. Literary awards, Best Papers Awards, winning projects and other distinctions, they all illustrate the research potential of this Associate Laboratory. The BIP team made a list of last year’s awards and we came up with a staggering number of 31 awards received by our collaborators. It is safe to say that excellence lives at INESC TEC!
24th January 2013
INESC TEC participated, between 10 and 12 October, in the Convention of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), which took place at the Centro de Congressos in Lisbon.
30th October 2012
From 27 to 29 June, the Faculty of Science of University of Porto (FCUP) hosted the 10th edition of the Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and sensors (SEONs), which was organised by INESC TEC. As part of this symposium, the Portuguese Society for Research and Development in Optics and Photonics (SPOF) organised, in collaboration with INESC TEC and the IT-Aveiro, the first Summer School on Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics.
27th July 2012
Combining skills is the path for excellence – the institution now integrates 12 R&D units and over 600 employees, including 200 PhD holders – has originated major challenges in terms of the efficient combination of expertise in the Associate Laboratory: could we use this diversity of skills to develop national and European multidisciplinary and added-value projects?
02nd July 2012