At the proposal of Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa will award the Doctor Honoris Causa degree to professor Ricardo Galvão in recognition of his outstanding academic, scientific and professional contributions, which have been highly recognised worldwide, and his collaboration with Técnico since Portugal entered the path to Nuclear Fusion.
Ricardo Galvão, current president of Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), is a full professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo and holds a PhD from MIT. He has occupied major positions within the Brazilian research organisations, in particular director of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and president of the Brazilian Physical Society. Before that, together with Ivan Nascimento, he led the team that designed and built the TBR-1, the first tokamak in Brazil and Latin America, and later on took the EPFL’s TCA to Brazil, a medium-sized tokamak currently being explored at the Institute of Physics.
As a man of causes, he has always played a civic and social role, helping, for example, to consolidate the Union of Physicists from Portuguese-Speaking Countries (UFPLP), he was a candidate for the Brazilian Congress and he was part of the scientists’ movement “Movimento dos Cientistas Engajados”.
The Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, on December 4, 2023, at 10 a.m.
Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão is a prominent Brazilian scientist, academic and scientific leader, with a strong link to Universidade de Lisboa, through Instituto Superior Técnico and Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion.
Programme
10.00 a.m. – Welcome of participants
10.20 a.m. – Academic procession
10.30 a.m. – Opening session by the president of IST
10.40 a.m. – Speech by the Head of the Department of Physics, IST
10.45 a.m. – Laudatio to Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão by professor Carlos Varandas
11.05 a.m. – Presentation of Doctor Honoris Causa insignia by the Rector of Universidade de Lisboa, professor Luís Ferreira
11.15 a.m. – Laureate’s acceptance speech, professor Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão
11.50 a.m. – Musical performance
12.20 p.m. – Closing session
12.30 p.m. – Port Wine will be served at the end of the ceremony
The event will be broadcast live on Técnico YouTube channel.
