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André Cortez

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Bio

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MSc Thesis - Completed
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- Pedro Manuel Crispim da Costa da Encarnação, ‘Ion Mobility Studies Mixtures used in gas detectors’, at University of Coimbra, July 2016.

- José Manuel Carvalheira Perdigoto, ‘Measurement of ion mobility in relevant mixtures used in gas detectors’, at University of Coimbra, September 2017.

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MSc Thesis - Underway
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- Miguel A.G. Santos, ‘Development of Negative Ion Drift Chambers and Study of negative ion transport properties in gaseous mixtures of interest’, at University of Coimbra, 2017/2018.

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Supervision of Internships
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01/09/2016 - 31/12/2016

- Miguel A.G. Santos, ‘Study of Ion Transport Properties in Relevant Gases for Radiation Detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics.

01/10/2013 - 01/09/2015

- Pedro Manuel Crispim da Costa da Encarnação, ‘Study of ion mobility for gaseous radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics.

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Summer Internships Program for Undergraduate Students - University of Coimbra
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01/07/2015 - 31/07/2015

- Diogo António Borges de Jesus, ‘Study of the mobility of positive ions in gas mixtures used in radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

- Rita Mendes Silva, ‘Study of the mobility of positive ions in gas mixtures used in radiation detectors’, at LIP-Coimbra in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

15/07/2014 - 15/08/2014

- Rafael Isaque Santos, ‘Study of ion mobility for gaseous radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

- Adriana Duarte Correia, ‘Study of ion mobility for gaseous radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

15/07/2014 to 15/08/2014

- Adriana Duarte Correia, ‘Study of ion mobility for gaseous radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

- Rafael Isaque Santos, ‘Study of ion mobility for gaseous radiation detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Summer Internships program from the University of Coimbra.

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Youth Scientific Occupation projects from Ciência Viva
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21/07/2014 to 25/07/2014

- Kavi Gosai, ‘Physics Instrumentation – Radiation Detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Youth Scientific Occupation projects from Ciência Viva.

- Margarida Duarte dos Santos Almeida Martins, ‘Physics Instrumentation – Radiation Detectors’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the Youth Scientific Occupation projects from Ciência Viva.

20/07/2015 - 24/07/2015

- Laura Sofia Ferreira Duarte, ‘Instrumentation for Radiation Detection’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the 19th Ed. of the Youth Scientific Occupation projects from Ciência Viva.

- Marta Sofia de Oliveira Lucas, ‘Instrumentation for Radiation Detection’, at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics in the scope of the 19th Ed. of the Youth Scientific Occupation projects from Ciência Viva.

7. Participação em projectos

Participação em projectos de investigação (coordenador/membro de equipas)

10/2009-09/2010
Member of the project team: "Multidisciplinary study: Application of physical and chemical techniques to artworks" at Center of Material Research with X-ray Diffraction (CEMDRX) from University of Coimbra.

09/2011-09/2012
Member of the project ‘Bioimpedance – An innovative approach to the diagnosis of plant diseases.’ at Electronics and Instrumentation Group (GEI) of the Physics Department (University of Coimbra).

11/2012-10/2013
Member of the project ‘Study of ion transport processes in gaseous detectors for particle physics.’ at Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics Laboratory – LIP Coimbra (CERN/FP/123613/2011).

11/2013-12/2013
Member of the project ‘RAD4LIFE/Radiation for Life - High Pressure Xenon Detectors’ at Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics Laboratory – LIP Coimbra.

02/2014-06/2014
Member of the project: ’Participation in the RD51 collaboration: detector physics and patterned resistive plate chambers’ at European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN (CERN/FP/116392/2010).

8. Prémios e Distinções

Ano

Prémio ou distinção

Entidade promotora

2015

Best Poster Award

EDIT 2015 - Exellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technology

2014

Best Poster Award

CERN Danube School on Instrumentation in Elementary & Nuclear Physics

2013

Best Paper Award

BIOTECHNO 2013

2013

Best Student Paper Award

BIODEVICES 2013

2011

Prémio IPN Incubadora - Arrisca C

Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Associação Académica de Coimbra

9. Publications


Teses MSc Thesis - André F.V. Cortez, ‘Application of Bioimpedance Techniques for Physiological States Assessment in Plant Tissues’, from the University of Coimbra with collaboration with the Group of Electronics and Instrumentation (GEI), Coimbra (Portugal). Supervisors: Carlos Correia and João Cardoso. September 2012.
MSc Thesis - Pedro Manuel Crispim da Costa da Encarnação, ‘Ion Mobility Studies of Mixtures used in Gas Detectors’, from the University of Coimbra with collaboration with the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Coimbra (Portugal). Supervisors: Filipa I. G. M. Borges and André F.V. Cortez. July 2016.
Artigos em revistas de circulação internacional com arbitragem científica ‘Experimental measurements of the mobility of ions originated in ethane in their parent gas’, A. F.V. Cortez, A.N.C. Garcia, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.A.S. Barata and C.A.N. Conde, 2013 JINST 8 P07013
'Pine decay assessment by means of electrical impedance spectroscopy', Borges, E., Sequeira, M., Cortez, A.F.V., Pereira, H.C., Pereira, T., Almeida, V., Vasconcelos, T. M., Duarte, I.M., Nazaré, N., Cardoso, J. and Correia, C. (2013) ‘Pine decay assessment by means of electrical impedance spectroscopy’, Published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer).
‘Experimental Ion Mobility measurements in Ar-C2H6 mixtures’, A. F.V. Cortez, A.N.C. Garcia, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.A.S. Barata and C.A.N. Conde, 2013 JINST 8 P12012
'Bioimpedance Parameters as Indicators of the Physiological States of Plants in situ', E. Borges, M. Sequeira, A.F.V. Cortez, H.C. Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida, T.M. Vasconcelos, I.M. Duarte, N. Nazaré, J. Cardoso and C. Correia, Published in Int. Journal Adv. Life Sciences, vol. 6 no 1&2 on July 2014.
‘Experimental Ion Mobility measurements in Ar-CO2 mixtures’, P.M.C.C. Encarnação, A.F.V. Cortez, M.G.A. Pinto, P.N.B. Neves, A.M.F. Trindade, J. Escada, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.A.S. Barata and C.A.N. Conde, 2015 JINST 10 P01010
‘Experimental Ion Mobility measurements in Xe-N2 mixtures’, A.N.C. Garcia, P.N.B. Neves A.M.F. Trindade, A.F.V. Cortez, F.P. Santos and C.A.N. Conde, 2014 JINST 9 P07008
‘Experimental study on Ion Mobility measurements in Ar-CH4 mixtures’, A.M.F. Trindade, A.F.V. Cortez, A.N.C. Garcia, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.A.S. Barata and C.A.N. Conde, 2014 JINST 9 P06003
‘Cluster ions in gas-based detectors’, Y. Kalkan, M. Arslandok, A.F.V. Cortez, Y. Kaya, Í. Tapan and R. Veenhof, Published in Journal of Instrumentation (Jinst) on June 2015 –JINST 10 P07004.
‘Experimental Ion Mobility measurements in Ne-CO2 and CO2-N2 mixtures’, P.M.C.C. Encarnação, A.F.V. Cortez, R. Veenhof, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, A.M.F. Trindade, F.I.G.M. Borges and C.A.N. Conde, Published in Journal of Instrumentation (Jinst) on May 2016 - JINST 072P 0316.
‘Experimental ion mobility measurements in Ne-N2’, A.F.V. Cortez, P.M.C.C. Encarnação R. Veenhof, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges and C.A.N. Conde, Published in Journal of Instrumentation (Jinst) on November 2016 - JINST 072P 0316.
Publicações em actas de encontros científicos 'Bioimpedance Parameters as a Risk Factor to Assess Pine Decay - An Innovative Approach to the Diagnosis of Plant Diseases', E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, H. Catarina Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida T. M. Vasconcelos, I. M. Duarte, N. Nazaré and J. Cardoso, C. Correia, Aproved to Biosignals .
‘New Developments in Gas Detectors - The Multi-Grid High-Pressure Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter’, André F.V. Cortez, K. Saito, C.A.N. Conde, S.J.C. do Carmo, F.I.G.M. Borges, Accepted for publication in JPS Conference Proceedings on July 2016.
Patentes System and Process to Assess Physiological States of Plant Tissues, In Vivo or In Situ, Using Impedance Techniques, Provisional Patent Application, submitted on March 2012 in Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial

10. Comunicações


Comunicações orais por convite Luís C.G.N.Freire, André F.V.Cortez, M.Fernanda P.Silva, Vítor M.F.Gaspar, M.Ramos Silva, A.Matos Beja, Francisco J.P.P.Macedo, Francisco P.S.C.Gil, “XIVth century tombs studied by X-ray techniques”, oral presentation, European Conference on X-ray Spectrometry, 20-25 June 2010, EXRS2010, Figueira da Foz, PORTUGAL
E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, J. Cardoso, C. Correia, ‘Assessment of Physiological States of Plants in situ – An Innovative Approach to the use of Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy ‘, oral presentation (full paper), accepted for the 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies, 24-29 March 2013 - BIOTECHNO 2013, Lisbon Portugal.
E. Borges, M. Sequeira, André F. V. Cortez, H. Catarina Pereira, T. Pereira, V. Almeida T. M. Vasconcelos, I. M. Duarte, N. Nazaré and J. Cardoso, C. Correia, “ ''Bioimpedance Parameter as a Risk Factor to Assess Pine Decay - An Innovative Approach to the Diagnosis of Plant Diseases “, oral presentation (full paper), accepted for the 6th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices, 11-14 February 2013 - BIODEVICES 2013, Barcelona Spain.
André F.V. Cortez, F.I.G.M. Borges, S.J.C. do Carmo, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Novel Techniques for Gaseous Radiation Detectors’, oral presentation (full paper), accepted for the 1st Doctoral Congress in Engineering - Symposium on Physics Engineering, 11-12 June 2015 – DCE 2015, Porto, Portugal.
Yalçin Kalkan, André F.V. Cortez, P.M.C.C. Encarnação, R. Veenhof, ‘Diffusion of ions in gas medium’, oral presentation (full paper), accepted for the 4th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, 12-15 October 2015 – MPGD 2015, Trieste, Italy.
André F.V. Cortez , P.M.C.C. Encarnação, R. Veenhof, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges and C.A.N. Conde, ‘Ion mobility measurements in gas mixtures’, oral presentation, XIth International Conference on Ion Implantation and Other Applications of Ions and Electrons, 13-16 June 2016 – ION 2016, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.
A.M.F. Trindade, J. Escada, André F.V. Cortez, F.I.G.M. Borges and F.P. Santos, ‘Xenon VUV scintillation wavelength shift by trimethylamine’, oral presentation, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 29 October – 6 November 2016 – 2016 NSS, Strasbourg, France.
Outras comunicações orais André F.V. Cortez, “Ion mobility measurement”, oral presentation, 13th RD51 Collaboration Meeting, 2nd to 5th of February 2014, CERN, Switzerland.
André F.V. Cortez, “Ion mobility measurement in gases”, oral presentation, Café com Física (Dep. Física / Univ. de Coimbra), 26th of March 2014, Coimbra, Portugal.
André F.V. Cortez, “Ion mobility measurement in Ar-CO 2 mixtures”, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Mini-week, 16th to 19th of June 2014, CERN, Switzerland.
Luís C.G.N.Freire, André F.V.Cortez, M.Fernanda P.Silva, Vítor M.F.Gaspar, M.Ramos Silva, A.Matos Beja, Francisco J.P.P.Macedo, Francisco P.S.C.Gil, 'Policromia em suportes pétreos analisada por técnicas de raios-X', apresentação oral, Colóquio 'A escultura patrocinada pela Rainha Santa: uma perspectiva interdisciplinar', Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Coimbra, 29/6/2010.
P.M.C.C. Encarnação, André F.V. Cortez, Y. Kalkan, R.Veenhof, F.I.G.M. Borges, F.P. Santos, P.N.B. Neves, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Ion transport in CO2-N2 mixtures’, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Meeting, 16th to 17th of October 2015, Trieste, Italy.
P.M.C.C. Encarnação, André F.V. Cortez, Y. Kalkan, C. Garabatos, R. Veenhof, F.I.G.M. Borges, F.P. Santos, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Ion transport in CO2-N2 mixtures’, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Mini-week, 7th to 9th of December 2015, CERN, Switzerland.
André F.V. Cortez, P.M.C.C. Encarnação, A.M.F. Trindade, J. Escada, P.N.B. Neves, C.A.N. Conde, F.P. Santos, ‘Xe-TMA update’, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Mini-week, 7th to 9th of December 2015, CERN, Switzerland.
P.M.C.C. Encarnação, André F.V. Cortez, R. Veenhof, F.I.G.M. Borges, F.P. Santos, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Ion transport in in Nitrogen based mixtures’, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Mini-week, 8th to 11th of March 2016, CERN, Switzerland.
F.C. Rolo, F.I.G.M. Borges, K. Saito, André F.V. Cortez, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Dependence on the incident angle and pressure of the Relative Extraction Efficiency of photoelectrons from CsI photocathode’, oral presentation, RD51 Collaboration Mini-week, 8th to 11th of March 2016, CERN, Switzerland.
Comunicações em painel ("poster") Multi-variable Platform for EIS Monitoring and Data Mining, 2nd National Meeting of Bioengineering, Coimbra (Portugal), February 2012.
André F.V. Cortez, “Novel Techniques for Gaseous Radiation Detectors”, poster presentation, CERN Danube School on Instrumentation in Elementary Physics & Nuclear Physics, Novi Sad (Serbia), September 2014.
P.M.C.C. Encarnação, André F.V. Cortez, F.I.G.M. Borges, F.P. Santos, P.N.B. Neves, C.A.N. Conde, ‘Experimental ion mobility measurements in Ar-CO2 and Ne-CO2 mixtures’, poster presentation, accepted for the 1st Doctoral Congress in Engineering - Symposium on Physics Engineering, 11-12 June 2015 – DCE 2015, Porto, Portugal.
André F.V. Cortez, K. Saito, C.A.N. Conde, S.J.C. do Carmo, F.I.G.M. Borges, ‘New Developments in Gas Detectors - The Multi-Grid High-Pressure Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter’, poster presentation, accepted for the International Symposium on Radiation Detectors and Their Uses, 18-21 January 2016 – ISRD 2016, KEK Tsukuba, Japan.
André F.V. Cortez, F.I.G.M. Borges, S.J.C. do Carmo, C.A.N. Conde, “Multi-Grid High-Pressure Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter – A New Approach”, poster presentation, 3rd International Summer School on Intelligent Signal Processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry – INFIERI 2015, Hamburg, Germany.
André F.V. Cortez, F.I.G.M. Borges, S.J.C. do Carmo, C.A.N. Conde, “High-Pressure Xenon based Detectors for Gamma-ray Spectrometry – A New Approach”, poster presentation, Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies – EDIT 2015, Frascati, Italy.
P.M.C.C. Encarnação, André F.V. Cortez, P.N.B. Neves, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges and C.A.N. Conde, ‘Experimental Ion Mobility Measurements in Nitrogen Based Mixtures’, poster presentation, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 29 October – 6 November 2016 – 2016 NSS, Strasbourg, France.
F. Rolo, K. Saito, André F.V. Cortez, F.P. Santos, C.A.N. Conde and F.I.G.M. Borges, ‘Quantum Efficiency Dependence of a CsI Photocathode with Photon Incidence Angle’, poster presentation, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, 29 October – 6 November 2016 – 2016 NSS, Strasbourg, France.

Publicações
Pessoas

Dual-Polarity Ion Drift Chamber: A new system to measure the mobility of positive and negative ions
Autor(es): D.J.G. Marques, A.F.V. Cortez, M.A.G. Santos, F.P. Santos, A.P. Marques, J. Escada, C.A.N. Conde, F.I.G.M. Borges
Submissão: 2021-11-08 Aceitação: 2022-02-01 Publicação: 2022-02-09
Referência: NIMA 1029 (2022) 166416
Operation of a novel large area, high gain, single stage gaseous electron multiplier
Autor(es): F.D. Amaro, R. Roque, N.V. Duarte, A. Cortez, and J.A. Mir
Submissão: Aceitação: Publicação: 2021-01-27
Referência: Journal of Instrumentation 16 (2021) P01033
Future gamma-ray missions' polarimetric prospects
Autor(es): A. F. V. Cortez et al.
Submissão: 2019-08-01 Aceitação: 2019-08-01 Publicação: 2019-08-01
Referência: Exp. Astron. 48 (2019) 65-76
Experimental ion mobility measurements in Ar-CO2 mixtures
Autor(es): P.M.C.C. Encarnacao, A.F.V. Cortez, M.G.A. Pinto, P.N.B. Neves, A.M.F. Trindade, J. Escada, F.P. Santos, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.A.S. Barata and C.A.N. Conde
Submissão: 2014-10-27 Aceitação: 2014-12-15 Publicação: 2015-01-26
Referência: JINST 10 P01010
Experimental ion mobility measurements in Xe-N-2 mixtures
Autor(es): A. N. C. Garcia, P. N. B. Neves, A. M. F. Trindade, A. F. V. Cortez, F. P. Santos, C. A. N. Conde
Submissão: 2014-04-18 Aceitação: 2014-05-29 Publicação: 2014-07-04
Referência: J. Instrum. 9 (2014) P07008