Our most recent Master’s graduate
Matilde Valente successfully defended her Master’s dissertation, “Study of Sensitivity of the FCC-ee to a Leptophilic Z'".

On 23 September 2026, Matilde Valente, a Master’s student in Physics at the University of Minho and a member of LIP, successfully defended her Master’s dissertation, entitled “Study of Sensitivity of the FCC-ee to a Leptophilic Z'”, and was awarded a mark of 20/20.
The dissertation was supervised by Nuno Castro (LIP/University of Minho) and António Morais (LIP/University of Minho).
The examination committee was chaired by António Tavares Costa (University of Minho) and included Nuno Barros (LIP/University of Minho) as examiner.
Congratulations, Matilde!