Curriculum Vitae

Updated 21-07-2010

Unit of Radiological Protection and Safety

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Name: Pedro
Surname: Teles
Born: 21-07-1978, Porto
Nationality: Portuguese

Phone: 21-994 6350
Fax: 21-994 1995
E-mail: ppteles (add @itn.pt)

Education

  • 2007 – PhD in Physics, Universidade do Porto, CEA de Saclay (França), Porto, Portugal.
  • 2001 – Graduation in Physics, Universidade do Porto.

Fellowships and Training

  • 12-16/05/2008 – MCNPX Intermediate Course, ITN, Sacavém, May 2008.
  • 02-05/04/2008 – IP-Eurotrans Internal Training Course, ITC6 "ADS Core design and reactor safety analysis", Madrid, Spain, 2-5 April 2008.
  • 20/02/2005-25/03/2005 – HERCULES (High European Research Course for Users of Large Experimental Systems), Grenoble (France) and Trieste (Italy).
  • 01-03/09/2001 – Physics of Condensed Matter Summer School "Physics by the Lake", Ambleside, Cumbria, UK.

Main Scientific Areas of Research (activity group)

  • Computational Dosimetry.
  • Nuclear Protection and Nuclear Safety.
  • Physics of Radiations.

Teaching/Supervision Activities

  • Supervised the work of the student Joana Bento, Researcher Grantee (BI), under the "Internal Dosimetry" project.
  • "Introdução ao Monte Carlo", DFA,  Nuclear and Radiological Protection.

Membership of Professional Societies

  • EURADOS 2009, Braunschweig, Alemanha.

Participation in Projects

  • 2007-present  – FP6-EUROTRANS, European Project.
  • 2008-present – ITN/UPSR, Modelling and simulation of the Whole Body Counter:  implementation of a voxelised human phantom for dose estimation.
  • 2009 – Central Design Team: the next step in the design and simulation of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS).

Selected Publications

  • An experimental study of the lattice dynamics of fully deuterated lithium acetate dihydrate, P Teles, M Quilichini, B Hennion, A Bosak, Ferroelectrics.
  • Monte-Carlo simulations of thermally induced reactivity variations in the GUINEVERE facility, P Teles, A Lafuente, A Boudoin, P Baeten, J-M Martinez-Val, Y Romanets, P Vaz, to be presented at proceedings IEMPT 10, Mito, Japan 2008.
  • Reactivity accidents in the GUINEVERE facility, A Lafuente, A Abanades, F Sordo, J-M Martinez-Val, M Piera, P Teles, P Vaz, A Boudoin, P Baeten, to be presented at proceedings IEMPT 10, Mito, Japan 2008.
  • Monte Carlo Simulation of a Whole Body Counter (WBC), P. Nogueira, L. Silva, P. Teles, E. Fernandes, A.D. Oliveira, P. Vaz, International Journal of Low Radiation 6, 4 (2009).