Resume
Education:
PhD. in Hadronic Physics at the CFTP- IST,
(2013-2018) under the supervision of Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler in the topics of Mesonic Electromagnetic Structure.
MSc. Integrated Master Degree in Physics Engeneering at the Technical University of Lisbon (IST) of Lisbon,
(2007-2012) under the supervision of Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler with thesis entitled: "Mesons in a Covariant Quark-Constituent Formalism".
(2013-2018) under the supervision of Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler in the topics of Mesonic Electromagnetic Structure.
MSc. Integrated Master Degree in Physics Engeneering at the Technical University of Lisbon (IST) of Lisbon,
(2007-2012) under the supervision of Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler with thesis entitled: "Mesons in a Covariant Quark-Constituent Formalism".
Current Position:
Postdoctoral fellow at the Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx, Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal.
Research & Fellowships:
July, 2014 PhD Grant (FCT) - supervised by Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler at IST, CFTP.
April, 2012 Research Scholarship (BI-FCT) with the duration of 26 months - supervised by Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler, part of the project Estrutura hadrónica com modelos relativistas (FCT PTDC/FIS/113940/2009) at IST & Évora University.
April, 2011 Research Scholarship (BI-FCT) with the duration of 12 months - supervised by Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña, part of the project
Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (POCTI-SFA-2-777) at CFTP.
March, 2008 Research Scholarship (BII-FCT & BI-FCT) with the duration of 12 months and 24 months respectively- supervised by Dtr. Sofia Andringa and Dtr. José Maneira, part of the project Participação portuguesa nas experiências SNO e SNO+ (CERN/FP/83548/2008) at LIP.
April, 2012 Research Scholarship (BI-FCT) with the duration of 26 months - supervised by Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dtr. Alfred Stadler, part of the project Estrutura hadrónica com modelos relativistas (FCT PTDC/FIS/113940/2009) at IST & Évora University.
April, 2011 Research Scholarship (BI-FCT) with the duration of 12 months - supervised by Prof. Dtr. Teresa Peña, part of the project
Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (POCTI-SFA-2-777) at CFTP.
March, 2008 Research Scholarship (BII-FCT & BI-FCT) with the duration of 12 months and 24 months respectively- supervised by Dtr. Sofia Andringa and Dtr. José Maneira, part of the project Participação portuguesa nas experiências SNO e SNO+ (CERN/FP/83548/2008) at LIP.
Public Communications:
• Mesons as relativistic bound states in a Minkowski-space approach* - Invited talk presented at Light Cone 2018, Jefferson Laboratory, USA, May 2018.
• Heavy and heavy-light mesons in the Covariant Spectator Theory - Contributed talk presented at Light Cone 2017, University of Mumbai, India, September 2017.
• Quark mass functions and pion structure in the Covariant Spectator Theory - Contributed talk presented at Light Cone 2017, University of Mumbai, India, September 2017.
• Comparison of two Minkowski-space approaches to heavy-quarkonia* - Invited seminar presented at the CFTP group cycle of seminars Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.
• Comparison of two Minkowski-space approaches to heavy-quarkonia* - Invited talk presented at Emilio Ribeiro conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.
• Mesons in a covariant quark model* - Invited seminar presented at University of Iowa, Iowa, USA, March 2017.
• Mesons in a covariant quark model*- Invited seminar presented at Nuclear Theory Group of Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, February 2017.
• Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covari- ant interaction kernels* - Invited seminar presented at LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2016.
• Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels* - Invited talk presented at Light Cone 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2016.
• Relativistic phenomenology of meson spectra with a covariant quark model in Minkowski space - Talk presented at XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2016.
• Quarks and other Paths* - Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2016 at IST, Lisbon , Portugal, July 2016.
• Heavy-light mesons in Minkowski space - Talk presented at Excited QCD 2016, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, May 2016.
• Introduction to Yang-Mills theories in Coulomb gauge* - Invited seminar presented at the Physics Department, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2016
• MuSES- Mesons: Spectrum and Electromagnetic Structure - Poster session presented at PhD Open days, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2015.
• Quarkonia and Heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model* - Invited seminar presented at the CFTP goup cycle of seminars Lisbon, Portugal, November 2015.
• Quarks and Paths* - Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2015 at IST, Lisbon , Portugal, July 2015.
• Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model - Talk presented at HUGS school at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA, June 2015.
• Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model - Talk presented at FB21- 21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2015.
• A covariant constituent-quark formalism for mesons - Talk presented at EEF70 Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non- Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experiment, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2014.
• Chiral-symmetry breaking and Confinement in Minkowski space - Contributed talk presented at LIGHT CONE 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, May 2014.
• Mesons in CST approach - Talk presented at 4th IDPASC School, Braga, Portugal, January 2014.
• Singularity-free two-body equation with confining interactions in momentum space - Contributed talk presented at EFB22- 22nd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Krakow, Poland, September 2013.
• Baryons: extracting information from Electroproduction data - Contributed talk presented at International Workshop-MesonNet meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2013.
• Nuclear reactor anti-neutrino oscillations with SNO+ - Talk presented at PASC WINTER SCHOOL, Sesimbra, Portugal, December 2009.
• Heavy and heavy-light mesons in the Covariant Spectator Theory - Contributed talk presented at Light Cone 2017, University of Mumbai, India, September 2017.
• Quark mass functions and pion structure in the Covariant Spectator Theory - Contributed talk presented at Light Cone 2017, University of Mumbai, India, September 2017.
• Comparison of two Minkowski-space approaches to heavy-quarkonia* - Invited seminar presented at the CFTP group cycle of seminars Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.
• Comparison of two Minkowski-space approaches to heavy-quarkonia* - Invited talk presented at Emilio Ribeiro conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.
• Mesons in a covariant quark model* - Invited seminar presented at University of Iowa, Iowa, USA, March 2017.
• Mesons in a covariant quark model*- Invited seminar presented at Nuclear Theory Group of Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, February 2017.
• Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covari- ant interaction kernels* - Invited seminar presented at LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2016.
• Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels* - Invited talk presented at Light Cone 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2016.
• Relativistic phenomenology of meson spectra with a covariant quark model in Minkowski space - Talk presented at XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2016.
• Quarks and other Paths* - Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2016 at IST, Lisbon , Portugal, July 2016.
• Heavy-light mesons in Minkowski space - Talk presented at Excited QCD 2016, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, May 2016.
• Introduction to Yang-Mills theories in Coulomb gauge* - Invited seminar presented at the Physics Department, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2016
• MuSES- Mesons: Spectrum and Electromagnetic Structure - Poster session presented at PhD Open days, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2015.
• Quarkonia and Heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model* - Invited seminar presented at the CFTP goup cycle of seminars Lisbon, Portugal, November 2015.
• Quarks and Paths* - Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2015 at IST, Lisbon , Portugal, July 2015.
• Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model - Talk presented at HUGS school at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA, June 2015.
• Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model - Talk presented at FB21- 21st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2015.
• A covariant constituent-quark formalism for mesons - Talk presented at EEF70 Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non- Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experiment, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2014.
• Chiral-symmetry breaking and Confinement in Minkowski space - Contributed talk presented at LIGHT CONE 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, May 2014.
• Mesons in CST approach - Talk presented at 4th IDPASC School, Braga, Portugal, January 2014.
• Singularity-free two-body equation with confining interactions in momentum space - Contributed talk presented at EFB22- 22nd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Krakow, Poland, September 2013.
• Baryons: extracting information from Electroproduction data - Contributed talk presented at International Workshop-MesonNet meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2013.
• Nuclear reactor anti-neutrino oscillations with SNO+ - Talk presented at PASC WINTER SCHOOL, Sesimbra, Portugal, December 2009.
Publications:
Selected publications:
- Sofia Leitão, Yang Li, Pieter Maris, M. T. Peña, Alfred Stadler, James P. Vary and Elmar P. Biernat, Comparison of two Minkowski-space approaches to heavy quarkonia, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 696, (2017).
- Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat, Covariant Spectator Theory of quark-antiquark bound-states: Mass spectra and vertex functions of heavy and heavy-light mesons, Phys. Rev. D 96, 074007 (2017).
- Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat, Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels, Phys. Letters B 764, 38-41 (2017).
- Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat, Linear confinement in momentum space: singularity-free bound-state equations, Phys. Rev. D 90, 096003 (2014).
- Alfred Stadler, Sofia Leitão, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat, Singularity-Free Two-Body Equation with Confining Interactions in Momentum Space, Few-Body Syst. 55, 701-704 (2014).
- Master Thesis "Mesons in a Covariant Quark-Constituent Formalism" can be seen HERE.
Curriculum Vitae:
My CV can be seen HERE.