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SUPERVISION

I supervise or have supervised 19 research projects: 2 postdoctoral researchers (1 completed, 1 ongoing), 6 PhD (2 completed, 4 ongoing) and 4 MSc projects (all completed), 2 predoctoral internships (both completed), and 5 undergraduate projects/internships (all completed).

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UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS/INTERNSHIPS

PhD STUDENTS

Filipe Pereira (2016 – 2021)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Detection and characterization of planets orbiting oscillating red-giant stars with NASA's TESS mission; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

Benard Nsamba (2015 – 2020)

Role: Co-supervisor; Thesis title: Asteroseismic characterization of exoplanet-host stars in preparation for NASA's TESS and ESA's PLATO space missions; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

MSc STUDENTS

Andreas Neitzel (2021 â€“ 2022)

Role: Co-supervisor; Thesis title: Determination of age and mass for seismic stars in the Ariel input catalog; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

Nuno Moedas (2018 – 2019)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Asteroseismic grid modeling of the Kepler LEGACY sample: Investigating the helium enrichment law; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

Ayoub Ait Benhamou (2021)

Predoctoral Internship Erasmus+; Role: Supervisor; Project title: Galactic Archaeology with NASA's TESS space mission; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

PREDOCTORAL INTERNSHIPS

Thibault Boulet (2019 – present)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Galactic archaeology with red giants in the Milky Way disc; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Miguel Tavares Clara (2019 – present)

Role: Co-supervisor; Thesis title: The physics of stars: building the next generation suite of tools to explore seismic data acquired from space; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Miguel Tavares Clara (2018 – 2019)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Asteroseismology with the space mission PLATO: Testing modelling requirements for subgiant stars; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

Thibault Boulet (2019)

Predoctoral Internship Stages Monde; Role: Supervisor; Project title: Detecting and characterizing exoplanets around evolved stars with NASA's TESS mission; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Filipe Pereira (2022 â€“ present)

Position funded by PLATO, PRODEX Experiment Arrangement (PEA no.: 4000133026), ESA - PRODEX; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

Andreas Neitzel (2022 – present)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Machine learning applied to Galactic archaeology; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Rúben Costa (2023 â€“ 2024)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Pushing the boundaries of cool-dwarf asteroseismology with ESPRESSO; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

URL (Thesis)

Mariana Júlio (2019)

Programa de Estágios Extra-Curricular (PEEC); Role: Supervisor; Project title: Explorando os dados científicos provenientes do satélite TESS da NASA; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Bárbara Soares (2019)

Programa de Estágios Extra-Curricular (PEEC); Role: Supervisor; Project title: Explorando os dados científicos provenientes do satélite TESS da NASA; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Benjamin Cooke (2016)

Undergraduate Summer Studentship; Role: Supervisor; Project title: The impact of TESS asteroseismology on the characterization of known exoplanet systems; University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Charlotte Gehan (2019 â€“ 2021)

Position funded by R&D Project PTDC/FIS-AST/30389/2017, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

João Pinto (2024)

IA Summer Program 2024; Role: Co-supervisor; Project title: Hands-on Galactic archaeology and Machine Learning using synthetic data; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

Soumyadeep Sarkar (2024)

IA Summer Program 2024; Role: Co-supervisor; Project title: Hands-on Galactic archaeology and Machine Learning using synthetic data; Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal

Rúben Costa (2024 â€“ present)

Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: TBD; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal

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