Profile

Luís Oliveira e Silva is a Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, since 2010, where he is also now President of the School Council, having been President of the Scientific Council from 2013 to 2020. He has also been a Visiting Professor in Physics at the University of Oxford since 2022. He obtained his degrees (Lic. 1992, PhD 1997, and Habilitation 2005) from IST, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001. His scientific contributions focus on the in silico exploration of the interaction of intense beams of particles and lasers with plasmas, in laboratory and astrophysical scenarios. He has been awarded several national and international prizes and awards, including Grande Oficial da Ordem da Instrução Pública by the President of the Portuguese Republic, the 2024 Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics, two ERC Advanced Grants, and election to Fellow of the American Physical Society, the European Physical Society, the European Academy of Sciences, and to Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.