Manuel Fiolhais

Biography

 Manuel Fiolhais, Full Professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1958. He is son of Felisberto Fiolhais de Carvalho and Aurora Bernardino Baptista Fiolhais, and father of Pedro (b. 1983) and Miguel (b. 1986). He entered the University of Coimbra (UC) in 1976, graduating in 1981. The Doctor degree (1988) and the title of “Aggregated” (1998) were also obtained from the same University. His thesis advisor was Professor José Urbano. Other influential teachers, that strongly shaped his intellectual outlook, were Professors Klaus Goeke (Juelich/Bonn and Bochum, Germany) and Mitja Rosina (Ljubljana, Slovenia). His scientific interests are focused on theoretical hadron physics, mainly the description of baryon structure and spectroscopy in the framework of quarkmeson effective models, and also on relativistic nuclear physics, mainly its applications to astrophysics. He has also a strong interest in the didactics and history of physics. In all these scientific and pedagogical fields he has published around one hundred scientific articles in international journals and books. Altogether, he participated in more than fifty scientific meetings and delivered approximately one hundred talks, in conferences or at research institutions, in Europe, Asia and Americas. He has been responsible for various scientific projects and was supervisor of two PhD students;

Research Interest

Clinical science