Students and postdoctoral supervision
Postdoctoral fellows and researchers
- Mário Magalhães, postdoctoral fellowship from FCT with reference SFRH/BPD/89474/ 2012, since May 2013.
- Davide Azevedo, postdoctoral fellowship from FCT project PTDC/MAT/120346/2010, from February 2014 to February 2015.
- Fagner Bernardini, postdoctoral fellowship partially financed by BREUDS, Marie Curie Actions -International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES), with reference code FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IRSES, project number 318999, from May 2014.
- Enrique Vigil, postdoctoral fellowship from CMUP (UID/MAT/00144/2013), from November 2015 to November 2016.
- Jaqueline Rocha, postdoctoral fellowship from Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brasil, from January 2016 to October 2016.
- Romain Aimino, postdoctoral fellow from FCT, with fellowship's reference number SFRH/BPD/123630/ 2016, since December 2016.
- Jérôme Rousseau, assistant researcher from FCT project PTDC/MAT-PUR/28177/2017, from December 2018 to June 2021.
- Vanessa Barros, postdoctoral fellow from FCT project PTDC/MAT-PUR/28177/2017, from March 2019 to September 2020.
- Sebastián Pérez Opazo, postdoctoral fellowship from CMUP (UID/ MAT/ 00144/ 2019), from July to December 2019.
- Théophile Caby, postdoctoral fellowship from CMUP (UIDB/00144/2020), from September 2021 to September 2024.
Doctoral students
- Hale Aytach, student from the PhD program in Mathematics of the universities of Coimbra and Porto (PIUDM), in co-supervision with S. Vaienti (Université du Sud, Toulon-Var).
Title of the thesis:
Extreme Values and Recurrence for Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics.
Dissertation defense date: 25th of June of 2013.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: SFRH/BD/33371/2008.
Currently, Hale holds a permanent position at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), in Brazil.
- Andrêssa Lima de Souza, student from the post-graduate program in Mathematics of UFBA; advisor: Vítor Araújo (UFBA).
Title of the thesis: Cota Superior de Grandes Desvios para Sumidouros Hiperbólicos Singulares.
Dissertation defense date: 9th of February of 2017.
The student had a scholarship from the program "Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Brasileiro".
Currently, Andrêssa holds a position at the Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia (UFOB), in Brazil.
- Jorge Valentim Soares, student from the PIUDM.
Title of the thesis: Extremal behaviour of chaotic dynamics.
Dissertation defense date: 31st of January of 2020.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: PD/BD/128061/2016.
Currently, Jorge is a senior data analyst at SBM offshore related with renewable energies.
- Lucas Amorim Vilas Boas, student from the PIUDM, in co-supervision with A.C.M. Freitas (FEP) and S. Vaienti (Université du Sud, Toulon-Var).
Title of the thesis: Compound Poisson distributions for random dynamical systems.
Dissertation defense date: December 2023.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: PD/BD/150458/2019.
Currently, Lucas is a senior analyst of risk models for a new stock market in Brazil.
- Raquel Brás Sá Couto, student from the PIUDM, in co-supervision with A.C.M. Freitas (FEP) and M. Todd (University of St. Andrews).
Title of the thesis: Statistical properties and rare events for chaotic dynamical systems.
Dissertation defense date: April 2024.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: PD/BD/150456/2019.
Currently, Raquel is a data analyst at Retail consult.
- Rafael Cizeski Nitchai, student from the PDMA, in co-supervision with S. Popov (CMUP).
Theme of the thesis: About Probabilistic Consensus Protocols on Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Expected defense date: 2024.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: UI/BD/150863/2021.
- Dylan Bansard-Tresse, student from the École Doctorale de l'Institut Polytechnique de Paris, in co-supervision with J-R. Chazottes (École Polytechnique).
Theme of the thesis: Concentration inequalities and limiting laws for dynamical systems.
Expected defense date: 2025.
PhD scholarship from the Centre de Physique Théorique of the École Polytechnique.
- Alessio Corveddu, student from the PIUDM, in co-supervision with A.C.M. Freitas (FEP).
Theme of the thesis: A multivariate approach to extreme dynamics.
Expected defense date: 2027.
PhD scholarship from FCT with reference: UI/BD/154808/2023.
Master students
- Susana Santos, MSc. in Mathematical Engineering of the University of Porto, in co-supervision with A.C.M. Freitas (FEP) and L. Maranhão (AXA insurance company).
Title of the thesis: A model for the estimation of severe accidents.
Dissertation defense date: December of 2013.
- Raquel Brás Sá Couto, MSc. in Mathematics of the University of Porto.
Title of the thesis: Análise espectral no estudo de sistemas dinâmicos.
Dissertation defense date: June of 2019.
- Paula Sofia Sousa Resende, MSc. in Data Analytics, in co-supervision with A.C.M. Freitas (FEP)
Title of the thesis: The point processes and its applications to wildfires.
Dissertation defense date: November of 2019.
- Cláudio Afonso Teixeira Macieira, MSc. in Mathematics of the University of Porto.
Title of the thesis: Point processes and applications.
Dissertation defense date: November of 2019.
- Bianca Gomes Silva, MSc. in Mathematics of the University of Porto, in co-supervision with R. Aimino (CMUP).
Title of the thesis: Clustering of rare events and other limiting properties of chaotic dynamics.
Dissertation defense date: November of 2023.
- Tristão de Matos Reis, MSc. in Mathematics of the University of Porto, in co-supervision with R. Aimino (CMUP).
Title of the thesis: Limit theorems in chaotic dynamics.
Expected defense date: November of 2025.
- Duarte Sá Pinho, MSc. in Mathematics of the University of Porto,
in co-supervision with R. Aimino (CMUP) and T. Caby (LOPS).
Title of the thesis: Extreme synchronisation for product dynamical systems.
Expected defense date: November of 2025.
Students in other programs
- Joana Correia Brandão, SigMatemática, a program of excellence for students in the last high school years, 2007/2008.
- Pedro Alberto Lúcio de Sales Damas, Novos Talentos em Matemática, a program of excellence for students in the first undergraduate years and supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2008/2009.
- Maria Inês Silva, Novos Talentos em Matemática, a program of excellence for students in the first undergraduate years and supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011/2012.
- Nuno Arala Santos, Novos Talentos em Matemática, a program of excellence for students in the first undergraduate years and supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2016/2017.