Curriculum Vitae
Matilde Teixeira Dias Castanheira
Business Address:
Home Address:
LIP - Coimbra
Departamento de Fı́sica
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
Rua Larga
P-3004 516 Coimbra
email: [email protected]
Outeiro dos Casais, n. 376
Taveiro
3040-856 Ribeira de Frades
Coimbra
email: [email protected]
Personal information
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 11th September 1981
Place of birth: Coimbra
Nationality: Portuguese
Education
MPhill in Instrumentation and Microelectronics, area of Atomic and Molecular
Instrumentation, to be concluded in December 2007;
Course work of MPhill in Instrumentation and Microelectronics, December
2006, with the grade of fifteen out of twenty;
Graduation in Physics, Experimental area, 1999-2004, awarded fourteen out of
twenty.
Thesis: Determination of the Luminosity using different subdetectors and
determination of the Branching Ratio of the meson ω.
Participation in the mobility program ERASMUS, Universitá degli Studi di
Trento, Italy, September 2002-July 2003.
Proficiency Certificate of English, with grade B, December 2000.
Highschool at Escola Secundária de D. Duarte, Coimbra, with the final grade
of sixteen out of twenty, July 1999.
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Research Interests
High energy Physics.
Particle Detectors.
Top quark physics.
Physics beyond the Standard Model.
Professional activities
Currently working in the project LHC Physics in LIP-Coimbra, Laboratory
of Instrumentation and Particles of Coimbra, with a scholarship since
January 2006.
Researcher in GIAN, Group of Nuclear and Atomic Instrumentation, from
January to December 2005.
Guide Monitor in the Physics Museum of University of Coimbra, since October
2003.
Researcher in the project Hera-B, at LIP-Coimbra, from October 2003 to July
2004.
• Determination of the muonic decay fraction of the meson ω(782)
• Determination of Luminosity.
Other Activities
Tutor, Tutoring Center C.P.T., 2004. Centro de Explicações C.P.T., Coimbra,
2004.
Tutor, Tutoring Center Jovistudo, 2001-2003.
Student Member of the Physics Department Council, University of Coimbra,
2001-2003.
Honors and Awards
Investigation Scholarship, project LHC Physics, Studies of the Top quark,
POCI/FP/63420/2005, January 2006.
Investigation Scholarship, project POCTI/FP/FNU/50228/2003, January to
December 2005.
Awarded first prize on the work Hera-B Data Analysis, National Students
Meeting, University of Aveiro, March 2004.
Matilde Teixeira Dias Castanheira
Languages
Portuguese, Native
English, Almost native
Italian, Fluent
French, Basic
Spanish, Basic
Computing
Programming Languages:
• FORTRAN
• C/C++
• HTML
Operative Sistems:
• MS-DOS/Windows
• Unix/Linux
Analysis and database Software:
• Origin
• PAW, ROOT
• MS-Office/MS-Works
• TEX/LATEX
Conferences and Scientific Meetings
School on Phyics at LHC - ’Expecting LHC’, Trieste, Italy, September 2006.
CERN Summer School, CERN, July 2006.
Top2006, Workshop, Coimbra, January 2006.
Hera-B Data Analysis, ENEF, University of Aveiro, March 2004.
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Publications
Theses:
Determination of the Luminosity using different subdetectors and determination of the Branching Ratio of the meson ω, September 2004, Supervisor: Prof. João Carvalho.
Study of the ATLAS sensitivity to the measurement of the tt̄ radiative cross
section, to be concluded in December 2007, Supervisor: Prof. António
Onofre.
Papers in Refereed Journals:
Ezio Caroli, Rui M. Curado da Silva, Alessandro Pisa, John B. Stephen,
Filippo Frontera, Matilde T. D. Castanheira and Stefano del Sordo, Polarisation measurements with a CdTe pixel array detector for Laue hard
X-ray focusing telescopes, Exp. Astr., Vol. 20, 353-364, 2006.
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
N. F. C. Mendes, R. M. Curado da Silva, Matilde T. D. Castanheira,
J. F. C. A. Veloso, D. S. A. P. Freitas,. C. A. N. Conde, Fei Wei and
Huaan Lin, Large Area and High Pressure GPSC/MSGC for space solar
X-ray spectrometry, 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symponsium Conference
Record, N14-61
September, 2007