Physics Education and Science Outreach
The Working Group manages our outreach and physics education efforts. We promote physics and excellence in science education in primary and secondary schools, not only by engaging scientists in visits to schools but also bringing students to the Physics Department and our research facilities. We are responsible for the school of excellence in Physics "Quark!" for high-school students from all over the country and for the coordination of the National Physics Olympiad. In addition, CFisUC collaborates on the outreach activities of the Department of Physics, Museum of Science and Centro Ciência Viva Rómulo de Carvalho.
Current projects
Previous projects
Recent Publications
Books
Books
1 - Campo eletromagnético
L. Brito, M. Fiolhais, C. Providência
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra (2023)
2 - 12F Novo - Física 12º ano
G. Ventura, M. Fiolhais, C. Fiolhais, J.A. Paixão, R. Nogueira, C. Portela
Texto Editores / LeYa (Lisboa) (2023)
3 - Caderno de Exercícios e Problemas 12F Novo - Física 12º ano
G. Ventura, M. Fiolhais, C. Fiolhais, J.A. Paixão, R. Nogueira, C. Portela
Texto Editores / LeYa (Lisboa) (2023)
Chapters of Books
4 - Neutron star equation of state: identifying hadronic matter characteristics
Constança Providência, Tuhin Malik, Milena Bastos Albino, Márcio Ferreira
Talyor & Francis accepted (2024)
Papers
International Journals
5 - Tension On and Off in Atwood´s Machine: The Advantage of Video Analysis
N. Campos, S. Domingos, PSP. Silva, M. Silva
Phys. Teach. 62 (1), 32-36 (2024)
6 - Tuning the AIE Properties of Di-tert-Butyl-diphenyldibenzofulvene Derivatives
Carla Cunha, Mariana Peixoto, José A. Paixão, Marta Pineiro, J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo
J. Phys. Chem. C 128(3), 1156-1164 (2024)
7 - The Impact of Asymmetric Dark Matter on the Thermal Evolution of Nucleonic and Hyperonic Compact Stars
E. Giangrandi, A. Avila, V. Sagun, O. Ivanytskyi, C. Providencia
Particles 7 (1), 179-200 (2024)
8 - On the mechanochemical synthesis of C-scorpionates with an oxime moiety and their application in the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction
C Gomes, M Costa, SMM Lopes, BA Nogueira, R Fausto, JA Paixao, TMVDE Melo, LMDRS Martins, M Pineiro
New J. Chem. 48, 874-886 (2024)
9 - Chitosan-silica composite aerogel for the adsorption of cupric ions
João P. Vareda, Pedro M. C. Matias, José A. Paixão, Dina Murtinho, Artur J. M. Valente, Luisa Durães
Gels 10(3), 192(1)-16 (2024)
10 - Bound states of relativistic spinless particles in a mix of circularly symmetric vector and scalar harmonic oscillators
V.B. Mendrot, A.S. de Castro, P. Alberto
Physica Scripta 99 (5), 055209 (2024)
11 - Unveiling the red and brownish-green polymorphs of a novel ROY derivative: 2-(4-((3-cyanothiophen-2-yl)amino)-3-nitrophenyl)acetic acid
Bernardo Nogueira, Susana Lopes, Ana Clara Beltran Rodrigues, M. Ermelinda Eusébio, Vânia André, M. Teresa Duarte, José Paixão, Teresa Pinho e Melo, Rui Fausto
Cryst. Growth Des. 24(3), 947-962 (2024)
12 - Biochar ageing effects on soil respiration, biochar wettability and gaseous CO2 adsorption
G. Ojeda, J.M. Gil, S Mattana, J. Bachmann, K. Quenea, AJFN Sobral
Mitig. Adapt. Strateg. Glob. Change. 29 (2), 11 (2024)
13 - High-refractive-index materials screening from machine learning and ab initio methods
Pedro J.M.A. Carriço, Márcio Ferreira, Tiago F.T. Cerqueira, Fernando Nogueira, Pedro Borlido
Phys. Rev. Mater. 8, 015201 (2024)
14 - E-cadherin variants associated with oral facial clefts trigger aberrant cell motility in a REG1A-dependent manner
J. Pereira, S. Melo, R.M. Ferreira, P. Carneiro, V.T. Yang, A.F. Maia, J. Carvalho, C. Figueiredo, J.C. Machado, E. Morais-de-Sá, R. Seruca, J. Figueiredo
Cell Commun. Signal. 22 (1), 152 (2024)
15 - Building models of quarks and gluons with an arbitrary number of colors using Cartan-Polyakov loops
Renan Câmara Pereira and Pedro Costa,
Nucl. Phys. B 998, 116415-24 (2024)
16 - A new approach to the 3-momentum regularization of the in-medium one and two fermion line integrals with applications to cross sections in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model
Renan Câmara Pereira, Pedro Costa, Constança Providência, João Moreira
Phys. Rev. C 109, 025206-57 (2024)
17 - Exploring robust correlations between fermionic dark matter model parameters and neutron star properties: A two-fluid perspective
P. Thakur, T. Malik, A. Das, T.K. Jha, C. Providência
Phys. Rev. D 109 (4), 043030 (2024)
18 - Rapid neutron star cooling triggered by dark matter
A. Ávila, E. Giangrandi, V. Sagun, O. Ivanytskyi, C. Providência
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. (2024)
19 - Molecular and Crystal Structure, Spectroscopy, and Photochemistry of a Dispiro Compound Bearing the Tetraoxane Pharmacophore
PSM Amado, S Lopes, EM Bras, JA Paixao, MA Takano, M Abe, R Fausto, MLS Cristiano
Chem. Eur. J. (2023)
20 - Practical Design of 3,6-di-tert-butyl-diphenyldibenzofulvene Derivatives with Enhanced Aggregation-Induced Emission
C. Cunha, M. Peixoto, J. Santos, P. Abreu, J.A. Paixão, N. Pineiro, J. Seixas de Melo
ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 1(1), 340-353 (2023)
21 - Relative motion made real
N Campos, PSP Silva, S Domingos, M. Silva
Phys. Teach. 61 (6), 534-535 (2023)
22 - The effect of self-interacting bosonic dark matter on neutron star properties
E. Giangrandi, V. Sagun, O. Ivanytskyi, C. Providência, Dietrich T.
Astrophys. J. 953 (1), 115 (2023)
23 - The Effects of Self-interacting Bosonic Dark Matter on Neutron Star Properties
E Giangrandi, V Sagun, O Ivanytskyi, C Providencia, T Dietrich
Astrophys. J. 953(1), 115 (2023)
24 - Machine-learning Love: classifying the equation of state of neutron stars with transformers
G Goncalves, M Ferreira, J Aveiro, A Onofre, FF Freitas, C Providência, JA Font
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 12, 001 (2023)
25 - The architecture of redox microdomains: Cascading gradients and peroxiredoxins´ redox-oligomeric coupling integrate redox signaling and antioxidant protection
M Griffith, A Araûjo, R Travasso, A Salvador
Redox Biol. 69, 103000 (2023)
26 - Enhancement of Optical, Electrical, Magnetic, and Thermopower Properties of LaMnO3 by Potassium-Doping
Hany F. Mohamed, Ahmed M. Ahmed, Mahrous R. Ahmed, José A. Paixão, Sara A. Mohamed
Phys. Status Solidi B, 2300175 (2023)
27 - Influence of the tetraneutron on the EoS under core-collapse supernovae and heavy-ion collisions conditions
Helena Pais, C. Albertus, MA Pérez-García, Constança Providência
Astron.Astrophys. 679, A113 (2023)
28 - Temperature and strong magnetic field effects in dense matter
J. Peterson, P. Costa, R. Kumar, V. Dexheimer, R. Negreiros, C. Providência
Phys. Rev. D 108, 063011-18 (2023)
29 - Robust universal relations in neutron star asteroseismology
D. Kumar, T. Malik, H. Mishra, C. Providencia
Phys. Rev. D 108 (8), 083008 (2023)
30 - A mathematical model of fibrinogen-mediated erythrocyte-erythrocyte adhesion
CS Lopes, J Curty, FA Carvalho, A Hernandez-Machado, K Kinoshita, NC Santos, RDM Travasso
Commun. Biol. 6(1), 192 (2023)
31 - Influence of post-processing milling conditions on the machinability and residual stresses evolution of LPBF 18Ni300 maraging steel
M. Duro, T. Silva, M.J. Marques, A.C. Batista, P. Rosa, A. M. Jesus
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 127, 2287-2297 (2023)
32 - Synthesis and Structural and Magnetic Properties of Polycrystalline GaMo4Se8
JF Malta, MSC Henriques, JA Paixao, AP Goncalves
Magnetochemistry 9(7), 182 (2023)
33 - Nanoscale Study of the Polar and Electronic Properties of a Molecular Erbium(III) Complex Observed via Scanning Probe Microscopy
Maxim Ivanov, Arkadiusz Grempka, Arseniy Buryakov, Timur Nikitin, Licínia L. G. Justino, Rui Fausto, Paula M. Vilarinho, José A. Paixão
Crystals 13, 1331 (2023)
34 - The ECM and tissue architecture are major determinants of early invasion mediated by E-cadherin dysfunction
S Melo, P Guerrero, MM Soares, JR Bordin, F Carneiro, P Carneiro, MB Dias, J Carvalho, J Figueiredo, R Seruca, RDM Travasso
Commun. Biol. 6 (1), 1132 (2023)
35 - All that glitters is not gold: X-ray fluorescence analysis of a fixed dental prosthesis from Coleccao de Esqueletos Identificados Seculo XXI, Portugal (CEI/XXI)
I Oliveira-Santos, RAMP Gomes, C Coelho, F Gil, E Cunha, IP Baptista, MT Ferreira
Int. J. Leg. Med. (2023)
36 - What Is the Nature of the HESS J1731-347 Compact Object?
V Sagun, E Giangrandi, T Dietrich, O Ivanytskyi, R Negreiros, C Providencia
Astrophys. J. 958 (1), 49 (2023)
37 - A coupled logistic map lattice model for two competing species
J. Sales, R. Travasso, M. Buckeridge, S. A. Carvalho
Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 1020 (2023)
38 - Introduction to Pharmaceutical Co-amorphous Systems Using a Green Co-milling Technique
JFC Silva, TMR Maria, PSP Silva, MR Silva, MTS Rosado, MES Eusebio
J. Chem. Educ. 100(4), 1627-1632 (2023)
39 - Amorphous Solid Forms of Ranolazine and Tryptophan and Their Relaxation to Metastable Polymorphs
JFC Silva, PSP Silva, MR Silva, E Fantechi, L Chelazzi, S Ciattini, MES Eusebio, MTS Rosado
Cryst. Growth Des. 23(9), 6679-6691 (2023)
40 - Crystal Engineering to Avoid Pairing Dipolar Moments: The Case of 5-Nitrouracil, a Highly Polarizable Molecule
MR Silva, PSP Silva
Crystals 13(1), 145 (2023)
41 - Image-based angio-adaptation modelling: a playground to study cerebrovascular development
RDM Travasso, V Coelho-Santos
Front. Psychol. 14, 1223308 (2023)
42 - Spanning the full range of neutron star properties within a microscopic description
Tuhin Malik, Márcio Ferreira, Milena Bastos Albino, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 107, 103018 (2023)
43 - Nonstrange quark stars within resummed QCD
Tulio E. Restrepo, Constança Providência, Marcus Benghi Pinto
Phys. Rev. D 107, 114015 (2023)
44 - Unusual magnetic properties of (Sr, Mn)-substituted BiFeO3 near the polar/antipolar phase boundary
V.A. Khomchenko, M. Das, M.S.C. Henriques, J.A. Paixão
J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 585, 171142 (2023)
45 - Decoding neutron star observations: Revealing composition through Bayesian neural networks
Valéria Carvalho, Márcio Ferreira, Tuhin Malik, Constança Providência
Phys. Rev. D 108, 4 (2023)
46 - Understanding the magnetic dynamics and magnetostructural coupling in the paramagnetic phase of TbMnO3 by muon-spin spectroscopy
R Vilarinho, RC Vilao, H Alberto, AG Marinopoulos, JM Gil, H Luetkens, Z Guguchia, M Mihalik, M Mihalik Jr, JA Moreira
Phys. Rev. B 108 (17), 174401 (2023)
Portuguese Journals
47 - Os pêndulos comunicadores!
Constança Providência, Rita Wolters
Gazeta de Física - Vamos Experimentar! 46 -3, 21-22 (2024)
48 - Como funciona o comboio maglev?
Constança Providência, Helena Arede, Joana Pancas, Rita Wolters
Gazeta de Físic - Vamos Experimentar! 46 - 1, 23-25 (2023)
49 - Um balão a jato: o que o faz voar?
Constança Providência, Rita Wolters
Gazeta de Física - Vamos Experimentar! 46 - 1, 44-45 (2023)
50 - Francisco Nazareth: Um cientista entre artistas
Gilberto Gonçalves Pereira, Décio Martins e Carlos Fiolhais
Gazeta da Física 46 (3), 7-11 (2023)
Proceedings
International Conferences
51 - Low energy muon study of the p-n interface in chalcopyrite solar cells
HV Alberto, RC Vilão, EFM Ribeiro, JM Gil, MA Curado, JP Teixeira, PA Fernandes, JMV Cunha, PMP Salomé, M Edoff, MI Martins, T Prokscha, Z Salman, Weidinger A
15th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance
Parma, Italy, 29/August-2/September 2462, 012047 (2023)
52 - Spatially localized redox relays allow sensitive site-specific hydrogen peroxide signaling
M Griffith, A Araújo, R Travasso, A Salvador
Free Radic. Biol. Med. 208 (1), S29-S-30 (2023)
53 - How sensitive and site-specific hydrogen peroxide signaling can be achieved in human cells: spatially localized redox relays
A Salvador, M Griffith, A Araujo, R Travasso
Eur. Biophys. J. 52(SUPPL 1), 749 (2023)
54 - Generating Vascular Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
J. Simoes, R Travasso, E Costa, T Baptista
8th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data science (LOD) 13811, 139-153 (2023)
Communications
Invited
55 - Neutron star properties from semiclassical methods in nuclear physics
Constança Providência
Conference on Quantum-Many-Body Correlations in memory of Peter Schuck (QMBC 2023). IJCLab, Orsay, France (2023)
56 - Neutron star matter: learning from collective modes
Constança Providência
CELEBRATING DR. MARCELLO BALDO’S 80TH BIRTHDAY, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Catania Division, Italy (2023)
57 - Estrelas de Neutrões: um laboratório de física nuclear, física de partículas e relatividade geral!
Constança Providência
RÓMULO – Centro Ciência Viva da Universidade de Coimbra (2023)
58 - Estrelas de neutrões: um laboratório de física nuclear e de partículas
Constança Providência
A pint of Science in Portugal: O infinito e o além (2023)
59 - How abundant are superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in the vasculature
lumen, how far can they reach?
T. Sousa, M. Gouveia, RDM Travasso, A. Salvador
3rd Meeting of Young Biophysicists, Porto, Portugal, 1st – 2nd Jun (2023)
60 - How abundant are superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in the vasculature
lumen, how far can they reach?
T. Sousa, M. Gouveia, RDM Travasso, A. Salvador
EBSA 2023, Stockholm, Sweden, 31st July – 4th Aug (2023)
61 - Movimento, Difusão, Tensão e Pressão - A Física na Biologia
Travasso, R.
IX Jornadas de Engenharia Física, Lisboa, Portugal, 22nd - 24th Feb (2023)
62 - Localised H2O2 gradients in the vasculature lumen and in the cellular
cytoplasm
R. Travasso, A. Salvador, T. Santos, M. Gouveia, A. Itacarambi, F. Aidos, P. Abranches, A. Bayani
SFRR-E Webinar Series “Emerging leaders in redox biology”, 4th Jul (2023)
63 - Adhesion modulates cell migration, erythrocyte morphology and endothelial cell Dynamics
R. Travasso, et al.
LI Winter Meeting On Statistical Physics, Guanajuato, Mexico, 11th-14th Jan (2023)
64 - Adhesion modulates cell migration, erythrocyte morphology and endothelial cell Dynamics
R. Travasso, et al.
Immuno-engineering workshop, Turku, Finland, 14th-15th Mar (2023)
65 - Adhesion modulates cell migration, erythrocyte morphology and endothelial cell Dynamics
R. Travasso, et al.
Programa de Verão 2023, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica,
16th Jan – 17th Feb, Rio de Janeiro (remote talk), Brazil (2023)
Oral
66 - A Aprendizagem baseada em Projetos como estratégia didática no ensino e
aprendizagem do Coletor Solar na disciplina de Física e Química A.
Esperança, T.
XX Encontro Nacional de Educação em Ciências - VI International Seminar on Science Education - Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã,
Portugal) (2024)
67 - The effect of dark matter on the properties of neutron stars
V. Sagun, T. Dietrich, M. Emma, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, I. Lopes, F. Pannarale, C. Providência, H. Rüter, F. Schianchi, W. Tichy
at the XXXIII National Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ENAA), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 7-9 September, 2023. (2023)
68 - Probing dark matter with neutron stars and their mergers
V. Sagun, T. Dietrich, M. Emma, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, I. Lopes, F. Pannarale, C. Providência, H. Rüter, F. Schianchi, W. Tichy
at the Dark Matter 2023: From the Smallest to the Largest Scales conference, Santander, Spain, May 29 - June 2, 2023. (2023)
69 - What is the nature of the HESS J1731-347 compact object? Does it confirm the early deconfinement phase transition?
V. Sagun, E. Giangrandi, T. Dietrich, O. Ivanytskyi, R. Negreiros, C. Providência
at the 19th International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2023), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 26 - 28 July 2023. (2023)
70 - Probes of dark matter with neutron stars and their mergers
V. Sagun, A. Ávila, T. Dietrich, M. Emma, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, I. Lopes, C. Providência, H. Rüter, W. Tichy
at the Theory Astrophysics and Gravity (STAG) Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 7 December 2023. (2023)
71 - Probes of dark matter with neutron stars and their mergers
V. Sagun, A. Ávila, T. Dietrich, M. Emma, E. Giangrandi, O. Ivanytskyi, I. Lopes, C. Providência, H. Rüter, W. Tichy
at the Department of Physics at Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom, 30 November 2023. (2023)
72 - Fibrinogen-Mediated Erythrocyte-Erythrocyte Adhesion: Clinical Relevance, Experimental Assessment and Mathematical Modeling
N. Santos, C. Lopes, J. Curty, F. Carvalho, A. Hernández-Machado, K. Kinoshita, R. Travasso
11th International Conference on Biological Physics, South Korea, 14th – 18th Aug (2023)
73 - Adhesion modulates cell migration and endothelial cell dynamics
R. Travasso, M. Gouveia, M. Palmeira, M. Soares, S. Cunha, J. Bordin
International Conference on Flow Dynamics 2023, Sendai, Japan (remote
participation), 6th – 8th Nov (2023)
74 - Heart Rate in Mammals (contributed talk)
R. Travasso, C. Penick, R. Dunn, E. Poiré
International Conference on Flow Dynamics 2023, Sendai, Japan (remote
participation), 6th – 8th Nov (2023)
Poster
75 - Avaliação Crítica das Atividades Práticas e de Laboratório no Ensino de Física: Um Estudo Longitudinal do 3º Ciclo do Ensino Básico ao Ensino Secundário, considerando o Impacto da Pandemia de COVID-19 e das Escolhas Opcionais
O. Simões, J.C.S. Manaia, T. Esperança
XX Encontro Nacional de Educação em Ciências VI International Seminar on
Science Education (2024)
76 - Non-formal activities in nanotechnology area for increasing students’ motivation. EDULEARN23 – 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
T. Esperança, S. Nunes
Trabalho apresentado em EDULEARN23 – 15th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (2023)
77 - Modeling the Transport of Hydrogen Peroxide in Human Tissues
A. Itacarambi, R. Travasso, A. Salvador
3rd Meeting of Young Biophysicists, Porto, Portugal, 1st – 2nd Jun (2023)
78 - Mathematical Modeling of Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Vascular Sprouts
M. Palmeira, M. Gouveia, R. Travasso
Building Bridges in Biology Symposium, 1st – 3rd Mar (2023)
79 - Spatially localized redox relays allow sensitive site-specific hydrogen peroxide signaling
A. Salvador, M. Griffith, A. Araújo, R. Travasso
SfRBM 23, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 15th – 18th Nov (2023)
Other
80 - Exposição: 50 anos de Ciência no Feminino: a Voz das Mulheres na UC
Lucília Brito, Constança Providência, Rita Wolters
Rómulo Centro de Ciência da UC (2024)
81 - Graph-Based Strategies for Optimizing Wildfire Supression
J. Aveiro, D. Neves, Paulo J. Silva, O. Oliveira, F. Nogueira, Jaime Oliveira da Silva,
(2023)
82 - Exposição: Ciência no Feminino 2.0
Constança Providência, Lucilia Brito, Rita Wolters
Rómulo Centro de Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra (2023)
