Nelson Rei Bernardino

Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional
Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
P-1649-003 Lisboa
Portugal

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E-mail: nelsonrb[at]cii.fc.ul.pt

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Current Activity Actividade Actual
Since April 2010	Postdoc at the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) studying nematic mediated interactions and wetting. With Margarida Telo da Gama.
Education Educação
October 2004 - March 2008	PhD at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College London (UK) in statistical physics of interfaces. Supervised by Professor Andrew Parry. Thesis: The Nonlocal Model of Short-Range Wetting.
July 2003	Graduation in Physics, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) with final grade of 16/20.
Professional and Academic Experience Experiência Profissional e Académica
April 2008 - March 2010	Postdoc at the Max-Plank-Intitute für Mettalforschung studying wetting of flexible hairy surfaces. With Professor Siegfried Dietrich.
September 2003 - August 2004	Researcher at the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) in mathematical epidemiology. With Professor Ana Nunes and Professor Margarida Telo da Gama.
March 2002 - July 2003	Research Technician at the Centro de Física da Matéria Condensada da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). Responsible for the co-administration of a Beowulf computer cluster and general computer support. With Professor Jorge Pacheco.
Teaching Ensino
From March 2014	Supervisor of the undergraduate student Francisco Braz on the project "Cholesteric liquid crystals at patterned walls" at Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
From March 2014	Supervisor of the undergraduate student Rafael Vieira on the project "Fluid dynamics of liquid crystals" at Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
From September 2012	Supervisor of the Msc student Ana Regina Fialho on the project "Liquid crystals with a twist: wetting, defects, and textures of cholesteric liquid crystals" at Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), with Nuno Silvestre.
From September 2012	Supervisor of the Msc student Maria Carolina Pereira on the project "Liquid crystals with a twist: wetting, defects, and textures of cholesteric liquid crystals" at Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), with Nuno Silvestre.
From February 2011	Teaching Assistant at the physics department of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). Modern Physics, Mechanics and Waves.
October 2011 - March 2012	Local supervisor of PhD project of the student René Wittmann, visiting from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (Germany), with Klaus Mecke.
February 2011 - July 2012	Supervisor of the final year project "Líquidos que dobram sólidos" of the student Rúben Coutinho at the physics department of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), with Margarida Telo da Gama.
October 2005 - July 2007	Teaching Assistant at the mathematics department of Imperial College London (England). First and second year students in the mathematics and other departments (physics, civil engineering, etc).

Management Gestão
March 2014	Organiser of the Soft.Matter@PT Workshop, Lisbon (Portugal).
From January 2012	Principal Investigator in the project Liquid crystals with a twist: wetting, defects, and textures of cholesteric liquid crystals. Project coordinated by the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) with the collaboration of members from Spain, Germany, and Brazil. Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
From January 2011	Organiser of the weekly group seminars at Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional (Portugal).
October 2006 - July 2007	Organiser of the weekly Maths Postgraduate Seminars at Imperial College London (UK).

Grants and Participation in Projects Bolsas e Participações em Projectos
Since June 2013	Participant in the project Self-assembly of the Lisbon model of patchy colloids at patterned surfaces and more. Project coordinated by the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) with the collaboration of seven other european groups in Germany, Spain, and Swizerland. Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
Since June 2011	Participant in the EU project CLASS - Complex Liquids At Structured Surfaces. Collaboration between the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), the Max-Plank-Intitute für Mettalforschung (Germany) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA). Funded by the EU.
Since April 2010	Postdoc grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Project: Effective Interactions Mediated by Elastic Distortions: The Role of Geometry, Topological Defects, Dimensionality and Thermal Fluctuations.
April 2010 - December 2011	Participant in the project Complex liquids in contact with structured surfaces. Bi-lateral project between the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) and the Max-Planck-Institut Stuttgart (Germany). Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the German DAAD.
April 2010 - March 2011	Participant in the project Wetting of complex fluids at rough surfaces. Bi-lateral project between the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) and the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). Funded by the Concelho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas and the Spanish Government.
Since February 2010	Participant in the project Patterned Surfaces and Colloids: The Effects of Texture on Fluid Adsorption and Self-Assembly. Project coordinated by the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) with the collaboration of seven other european groups in Germany, the UK, Spain, France and Italy. Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
October 2004 - March 2008	PhD grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Project: Interfacial Phase Transitions: Wetting and Filling.
September 2003 - August 2004	Participant in the project Behaviour of Spatially Extended Discrete Models for Epidemic Spread. Project of the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

Talks at Seminars Seminários
October 2013	Step by step building of an effective field theory, CENTRA Multidisciplinary Center for Astrophysics, IST Lisboa, Portugal.
April 2013	200 (e tal) anos de física de interfaces numa hora!, Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
November 2011	Wedge Filling, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany.
March 2011	Líquidos que dobram sólidos, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
March 2011	Elastocapilaridade: líquidos que dobram sólidos, Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
February 2010	Wetting of Hairy Surfaces, Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Lisbon, Portugal.
December 2009	Christmas Special: A "Literature" Review on Wetting, Professor Siegfried Dietrich's Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
July 2009	Wetting of Hairy Surfaces, Soft Matter Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. See also the movies: drop and interface on a leaf of a Lady's Mantle.
July 2008	Critical Wetting Transitions: A Scientific Soap Opera?, Institute for Theoretical Physics II: Soft Matter, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
April 2008	Wetting of Rough and Flexible Surfaces, Professor Siegfried Dietrich's Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
October 2007	An Essay on Mathematical Fashion: The Theory of Tie Knots, Maths Postgraduate Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK.
June 2007	How Not to Throw Away the Proverbial Baby: The Nonlocal Model of Wetting (abstract), Professor Siegfried Dietrich's Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany.
May 2007	How Not to Throw Away the Proverbial Baby (abstract), Dr Nigel Clarke's Group, Chemistry Department, Durham University, Durham, UK.
January 2007	Wetting in a Nutshell: Interfacial Phase Transitions in Planar and Non-Planar Geometries, Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Lisbon, Portugal.
October 2006	Wetting in a Nutshell, Maths Postgraduate Seminar, Imperial College London, London, UK.
February 2005	The Physics of Flight, Professor Henrik J. Jensen's Group, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK.
November 2004	Mathematical Modelling of Epidemic Spreading, Professor Henrik J. Jensen's Group, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Conferences Conferências
March 2014	Soft.Matter@PT Workshop, Lisbon (Portugal). Poster: Re-entrant wetting of network fluids.
July 2013	StatPhys 25, Seoul, South Korea. Talk: Re-entrant wetting of network fluids.
October 2012	2nd Workshop on Complex Liquids at Structured Surfaces, Lisbon, Portugal. Talk: Re-entrant wetting of network fluids.
April 2012	Soft Matter 2012: A Celebration for Bob Evans, Bristol, UK. Poster: Re-entrant wetting of associating fluids.
November 2011	Juelich Soft Matter Days, Bonn, Germany. Poster: Wetting of patterned elastic substrates.
September 2011	8th Liquid Matter Conference, Vienna, Austria. Poster: Wetting of patterned elastic substrates.
July 2011	CFTC Summer School: From Soft Matter to Stochastic Processes, Lisbon, Portugal. Talk: Interfaces in Soft Matter.
January 2011	Liquids at Interfaces, A Conference in Honour of J.R. Henderson, London, UK.
July 2010	International Soft Matter Conference 2010, Granada, Spain. Talk: Wetting of Surfaces Covered by Elastic Hairs. See also the movies: drop and interface on a leaf of a Lady's Mantle.
March 2010	Soft Matter at Interfaces 2010, Ringberg, Germany. Talk: Wetting of Hairy Surfaces. See also the movies: drop and interface on a leaf of a Lady's Mantle.
February 2010	Encontro Nacional 2010 de Física da Matéria Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal. Poster: Wetting Transitions: A New Look at an Old Problem.
September 2009	International Summer School Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XII, Leuven, Belgium. Mini Talk: Wetting Transitions: A New Look at an Old Problem. Poster: Wetting Transitions: A New Look at an Old Problem.
August 2009	Gordon Research Conference Liquids, Chemistry & Physics of, Holderness, NH, USA. Poster: Wetting Transitions: A New Look at an Old Problem.
June 2009	Flow(ers) and jam(mers): from liquid crystals to grains, Lisbon, Portugal. Talk: Wetting of Hairy Surfaces.
April 2009	37th German Liquid Crystal Conference, Stuttgart, Germany. Session Chair.
March 2009	Soft Matter at Interfaces 2009, Ringberg, Germany. Poster: Wetting Transitions: Nonlocality and the Missing Lengthscale.
October 2008	Bandol Summer School on Liquid Crystals, Bandol, France.
June 2008	7th Liquid Matter Conference, Lund, Sweden. Poster: Wetting Transitions: Nonlocality and the Missing Lengthscale.
April 2008	Soft Matter at Interfaces 2008, Ringberg, Germany. Poster: Surface Physics ain't Superficial: A New Model of Wetting.
July 2007	SOCOBIM 2007, Soft, Complex, and Biological Matter, Terrasini, Italy. Poster: Surface Physics ain't Superficial: A New Model of Wetting.
May 2006	Soft Matter and Interfaces, In the celebration of the 60th birthday of Bob Evans, Lisbon, Portugal.
August 2004	CNET 2004, Science of Complex Networks: from Biology to the Internet and WWW, Aveiro, Portugal. Poster: Endemic Persistence and Percolation Transition on Small-World Networks.

Awards Prémios
2007	Second Best Poster at the 2007 Imperial College Maths Postgraduate Forum with the poster Surface Physics ain't Superficial: A New Model of Wetting.
1999	Honourable Mention by the Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa for Fifth Best Fresher of the academic year 1998/1999.

Reviewer for Scientific Journals Revisão em Revistas Científicas
	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
	Advances in Colloid and Interface Science.
	Journal of Chemical Physics.
	Langmuir.
	Molecular Physics.
	Physical Review B.
	Physical Review E.
	Physical Review Letters.
	Soft Matter.

Collaborations Colaborações
	Rafael Zola, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (Brazil). Experiments of wetting of liquid crystals.
	Luiz Evangelista, Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Brazil). Theory of wetting of liquid crystals.
	Enrique Velasco, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). DFT of cholesterics.
	Daniel de las Heras, Universitaet Bayreuth (Germany). DFT of cholesterics.
	Yuri Martínez Ratón, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). DFT of cholesterics.
	Mykola Tasinkevych and Siegfried Dietrich, Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart (Germany). Theory and simulations of soft condensed matter physics.
	Andrew Parry, Imperial College London (UK). Wetting Theory.
	José Manuel Romero-Enrique, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). Weting theory.
	Carlos Rascón, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). Wetting theory.

Outreach Divulgação
May 2013	Organiser of a visit of students from Liceu Passos Manuel, Lisbon, Portugal to the Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
March 2013	Translation of the popular science book Cyles of Time (Ciclos de Tempo) by Roger Penrose, Gradiva Publicações.
February 2012	Como funciona um LCD?, Escola Secundária Padre Alberto Neto, Queluz, Portugal.
May 2011	Como funciona um LCD?, Liceu Passos Manuel, Lisbon, Portugal.

Other Training Outra Formação
May and June 2010	Scientific Entrepreneurship, 38 hours, Oficina de Transferência de Tecnologia e de Conhecimento, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
April 2007	Networking, 6 hours, Transferable Skills Training Programme, Imperial College London, London, UK.
January 2006	Effective Writing, 3 hours, Transferable Skills Training Programme, Imperial College London, London, UK.
October 2005	Assertive Communication, 3 hours, Transferable Skills Training Programme, Imperial College London, London, UK.
February 2005	Time Management, 6 hours, Transferable Skills Training Programme, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Other Skills Outras Aptidões
Knowledge and experience of Linux and computer clusters for parallel computation. Programming experience in C++, Fortran, Maple and Matlab. Portuguese (Native). Fluent English. Basic French. Basic German.

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