SUPERVISION
I supervise or have supervised 16 research projects: 2 postdoctoral researchers (1 completed, 1 ongoing), 5 PhD (2 completed, 3 ongoing) and 4 MSc projects (3 completed, 1 ongoing), 2 predoctoral internships (both completed), and 3 undergraduate projects (all completed).
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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
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
MSc STUDENTS
Andreas Neitzel (2021 – 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
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
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
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 – 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 – present)
Role: Supervisor; Thesis title: Pushing the boundaries of cool-dwarf asteroseismology with ESPRESSO; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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 – 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