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Advisory Board

Our advisory board.
The reading we measure ourselves against.

Geometrica's work sits at the intersection of mathematics, physics, and the fields where it is applied. Our Advisory Board brings the academic reading we measure ourselves against - domain by domain. Each advisor joined for a specific reason; the page below records who, and why.

Physics

João Campos Gil, PhD

Associate Professor with Habilitation · Research Scientist, CFisUC

Research scientist at the Centre for Physics of the University of Coimbra (CFisUC), and Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology. His research uses muon spin rotation (μSR) and perturbed angular correlation (PAC) to study hydrogen states in semiconductors and oxides, with published work on cadmium sulfide, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, and chalcopyrite solar-cell materials. CFisUC participates in the LISA Collaboration, the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer gravitational-wave consortia, EuCAPT, the Square Kilometre Array, and partnerships with the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam) and SISSA Trieste. He joined Geometrica's Advisory Board to bring the physics reading to the geometric methodology - and, in particular, the physical context for the spacecraft telemetry anomaly detection work.

Centre for Physics (CFisUC) · Department of Physics · University of Coimbra
University profile
Astroparticle physics · Dark matter detection

José Pinto da Cunha, PhD

Professor Auxiliar · LIP Researcher

Professor Auxiliar at the Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, and Researcher at LIP Coimbra (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas). His research focuses on the direct detection of dark matter using liquid-xenon time-projection chambers - he participates in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility and has worked on the ZEPLIN-II and ZEPLIN-III predecessor detectors, with technical contributions in liquid-xenon scintillation, photomultiplier calibration, and nuclear-recoil characterisation. LIP partners with CERN and runs space-radiation programmes for spacecraft missions. He joined Geometrica's Advisory Board to bring the rare-event detection discipline of experimental dark-matter physics to the geometric methodology - and, through LIP's space-radiation work, additional physical context for the spacecraft telemetry anomaly detection lens.

Department of Physics · University of Coimbra · LIP Coimbra
LIP profile
Mathematics & operations research

Humberto Rocha, PhD

Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics · Associate Professor with Habilitation

Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra and Associate Professor with Habilitation; researcher at CeBER (Centre for Business and Economics Research) and INESC Coimbra. He earned his PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics in 2005, jointly at Old Dominion University and NASA Langley Research Center (Virginia, USA), and later a medical degree from the University of Minho in 2015. His research applies optimisation and operations-research methods across physics, aeronautics, and medicine - notably radiotherapy treatment planning for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton therapy (IMPT). He joined Geometrica's Advisory Board to bring the mathematician's reading to the framework's foundations.

Faculty of Economics · CeBER · INESC Coimbra · University of Coimbra
University profile

More advisors to be announced. Each new appointment is matched to a specific field of Geometrica's work - the academic reading we want to measure ourselves against in that field.