One of the most recognized and prestigious international evaluation systems for higher education institutions awards 5 stars to NOVA.
Sofia Pessanha signed a contract as Assistant Professor on 9 October. The Physics Department team welcomes Professor Sofia Pessanha.
Bárbara Capelo was awarded the Best Scientific Article Award for her work “Evaluating Coreset Selection with Coverage and Density: A Data Quality Perspective”
Professor Filipe Tiago de Oliveira, from the Department of Physics, was one of the professors honoured in the 1st edition of NOVA FCT's Projects for Pedagogical Innovation.
News published in the Expresso newspaper on 7 October 2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis ‘for the discovery of macroscopic tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electrical circuit.’
The Center of Physics and Technological Research (CEFITEC) is an experimentally oriented research unit devoted to exploring specific areas of Applied Physics and related activities, merging topics of Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering. Our research ranges from basic principles to proof of concept, system prototype and, in some cases, deployment in operational environment.
LIBPhys is formed by researchers from three Universities: NOVA of Lisbon, Coimbra, and Lisbon. The R&D activities of LIBPhys are developed in the areas of atomic, molecular and nuclear physics and electronic & industrial automation instrumentation with applications to analytical methods, radiation detection, and biomedical engineering.
The Physics Department (DF), formally created in 1986, was a pioneer in Portugal in teaching Physics Engineering. Presently, the DF carries out its teaching activities (1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles), fundamental and applied research and technological development in the fields of Physics, Physical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. It is also dedicated to providing services and to scientific dissemination in these fields.
The department's scientific activity is essentially carried out in two research units, LIBPhys-UNL and CEFITEC. Research covers several areas, such as atomic and molecular physics, nuclear and plasma physics, surface and interface physics, laser and vacuum physics, instrumentation, analytical techniques applied to health and cultural heritage, medical instrumentation, medical imaging, machine learning, biosignals and tissue engineering.
