Técnico professor wins ERC Starting Grant worth 1.5 million euros
Marco Piccardo, a Técnico professor and INESC MN researcher, will lead a groundbreaking project to bring metamaterials into plasma science....
Técnico establishes agreement to advance Fusion Energy Research
Instituto Superior Técnico and Next Step Fusion signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of fusion energy research, marking a...
Técnico researcher and professor presents new theory for phenomenon associated with stellar explosions
Frederico Fiúza is the co-author of an article published in Physical Review Letters, which studies the energetic interaction of electrons and...
Técnico researchers participate in project that can generate plasma “fireballs” in the lab
Técnico researchers integrate international team of scientists that has developed a novel way to experimentally produce plasma ‘fireballs’ on Earth, opening...
Frederico Fiúza honoured by European and North American physical societies
The Técnico researcher has been awarded the 2024 Lev D. Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award for outstanding contributions to plasma...
Técnico hosts Distinguished Lecture by the fifth woman who received the Nobel Prize in Physics
Anne L'Huillier presented her work in the field of ultrashort pulses of light to an audience that filled the Técnico Congress...
Técnico researcher discovers fossils over 200 million years old in citizen science activity
Palaeontologist Ricardo Araújo teamed up with the community to find out more about the origins of dinosaurs and mammals in the...
37th European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter – ECLIM 2024
From 16th to 20th September, at Técnico Congress Centre, Alameda campus...
Técnico professor receives the Blaise Pascal Medal in Physics awarded by the European Academy of Sciences
Luís Oliveira e Silva is honoured for his “exceptional contributions to plasma physics, particularly in the realm of laser and particle...
IST Distinguished Lecture – Roger Blandford
April 19, at 2 p.m., in Abreu Faro Amphitheatre, Interdisciplinary Building, Alameda Campus ...
Five Técnico researchers selected for Young Scientists Seminar
Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, Frederico Fiúza, Hugo Terças, Marco Piccardo and Tina Keller-Costa are members of the Class of Sciences of the...
IST Distinguished Lecture – Uwe Czarnetzki
March 13, at 4 p.m., in PA1 auditorium, Alameda Campus ...
Técnico project receives honourable mention of Exame Informática innovation award
The FRIENDS project aimed to develop a solution using unmanned aerial vehicles for communication support in search and rescue missions....
Técnico collaborates with company to develop “key diagnostic” for nuclear fusion
On December 12, 2023 Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and General Fusion announced a collaboration agreement, through IST’s Institute for Plasmas and...
Ricardo Galvão, Brazilian scientist and ‘man of causes’, awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the proposal of Técnico
On the same day, the professor and researcher gave an IST Distinguished Lecture titled "Amazonia and Current Brazilian Environmental Policy"....
Técnico celebrates National Day of Scientific Culture by bringing together science outreach projects
To mark the birthday of Rómulo de Carvalho, a historic figure in Portuguese science, Técnico has brought together some of its...
Consortium involving Técnico researchers announces unprecedented results in nuclear fusion
Técnico is Portugal's representative in the EUROfusion consortium, which has announced the scientific results obtained in 2021, from their record-breaking experimental...
Nobel Prize in Physics – a comment from a Técnico professor
The prize was awarded to scientists who developed experiments to detect the behaviour of electrons at the attosecond scale....