About | ruiefdasilva

Positions

September 2021 - current: "la Caixa" Junior Leader Fellow (Retaining), at the Theory of Quantum Materials group, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- PI of the project "Strong field physics in the condensed phase", funded by "la Caixa" Foundation, fellowship code LCF/BQ/PR21/11840008.
February 2018 - August 2021: Postdoc Researcher, MMUSCLES ERC funded project, at the Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, under the supervison of Dr. Johannes Feist, Madrid, Spain.
- Developing theoretical models and methods to deal with the new challenges of polaritonic chemistry.
February 2016 - January 2018: Postdoc Researcher at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), under the supervison of Prof. Misha Ivanov, Berlin, Germany.
- Developing numerical codes and analytical models in the context of strong field physics in condensed matter systems.

PhD in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling, CAMPUS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, under the supervision of Prof. Fernando Martín and Dr. Paula Rivière, January 2016

Thesis: Study of diatomic molecules under short intense laser pulses. (available here)

European Master in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, July 2012
BSc in Physics with minor in Chemistry, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, July 2010