Jorge Vieira

I mentor the work of an informal team of young PhD students and researchers to explore how  ultra-intense laser pulses and particle beams interact with matter at ultra-high intensities.

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I am a co-developer of OSIRIS, a massively parallel particle-in-cell code for plasma simulations. Osiris is developed by IST and by the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). My students developed an advanced Radiation Diagnostic for OSIRIS (RaDiO). We use routinely OSIRIS and RaDiO in TIER-0 supercomputing sites in our research undertakings.

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I also currently coordinate undergraduate plasma physics courses at IST where I introduced a set of computational examples using PIC simulations to complement the regular  course work materials.