Date: 12 March
Time: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Venue: Técnico – Loures Campus (Auditorium)
«What if we could follow the invisible journey of atoms and uncover the most intimate secrets of the materials that shape our world?
In Grenoble, France, a beam of light is born thousands of millions of times brighter than the Sun. When guided with microscopic precision, this light passes through crystals, metals, rocks, and even biological tissues, revealing hidden structures, imperceptible movements, and transformations occurring in fractions of a second.
The seminar “Exploring Matter with Synchrotron X-rays: An Overview of the ESRF”, led by João Elias F. S. Rodrigues, Physicist and Beamline Operation Manager at the ESRF (ID15B and ID27), takes us on a true “atomic-scale adventure”, unveiling the inner workings of one of the world’s most advanced scientific infrastructures, where synchrotron light becomes a tool to unravel structural, electronic, and dynamic phenomena under extreme conditions.
During the session, the ESRF – The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, its advanced techniques for studying these phenomena in various materials, the inner workings of the facility, from design to experiment execution, and opportunities for collaboration with the scientific community in Lisbon will be explored.
Organised by the C²TN – Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares Academy, the session will feature Antonio Pereira Gonçalves, researcher at the Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA), who will introduce the guest speaker, João Elias F. S. Rodrigues, with expertise in functional materials synthesis and advanced X-ray characterisation and spectroscopy techniques.
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