Carlos Fiolhais#
| Membership Number: | 4413 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | http://nautilus.fis.uc.pt/personal/cfiolhais |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full Professor of Physics, University of Coimbra since 2000
- Before Associate and Assistant professor of Physics at the same institution
- 1991 and 1997 sabbatical leave at the Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- 1979 - 1982 PhD student at the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational condensed matter physics
- History of science
- Physics education
Honours and Awards
- 2005 First place of the União Latina - JNICT Prize for scientific translation União Latina and JNICT, Lisbon
- 2005 Gold Globe of Merit and Excellence in Science TV channel SIC, Lisbon
- 2006 Great Official, Henry the Navigator Order President of the Republic, Lisbon
- 2006 Rómulo de Carvalho Prize, University of Évora
- 2012 Innovation Prize Manuel Pinto de Azevedo Júnior, Forum III Millennium – Newspaper "O Primeiro de Janeiro", Porto
