Let´s Inspire People
Support to projects at LIP has been reinforced with a new member in Lisboa. Rita will share her time between the management of the ERC “FARE – Fake News and Real People”, with Joana G. Sá, and pre-award project support in the framework of LIP’s Administrative services.
The LIP Distributed Computing and Digital Infrastructures group has a new member in Lisbon. Marta Castro will be involved in national and international innovation and research projects. Marta will work on software development and contribute to the IT support.
Congratulations to the LIP PhD students who discussed their theses in 2020!
Read more in the LIP website news:
Congratulations to all LIP MSc students who discussed their theses in 2020: Ricardo Barrué, Maura Barros, Joana Antunes, Luís Coelho, João Marques da Silva, Joana Mingacho, and more…
In 2020, the European Researchers Night was moved to the end of the November and happened during the Science and Technology week. At LIP, was a great online event, developed in a close collaboration between Braga, Coimbra and Lisboa, and in which young researchers had a remarkable role.
Learn more about the program and see the pictures in the LIP website news
Ana Luísa Carvalho, PhD student in the LIP ATLAS Group, is one of the winners of the ATLAS PhD Grants. Congratulations!
Every year the ATLAS Collaboration awards ATLAS PhD grants to three PhD students. The award finances two years of the PhD of these students, one at CERN and the other at the institution of origin. The names of the winners should be publicly announced at a ceremony during the first ATLAS Week in 2021.
This year, among the winners is Ana Luísa Carvalho, PhD student at LIP-Lisboa and at IST, University of Lisbon. The subject of Ana Luísa’s thesis is the study of the couplings of the recently discovered Higgs boson to the top quark, by far the heaviest quark and the heaviest elementary particle we know of. More specifically, she will use the data collected by the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s LHC to study the CP properties of the Higgs couplings to top quarks.
The goal of the ATLAS PhD Grants is to stimulate some of the most talented and motivated young people who are doing PhD in the realm of the ATLAS collaboration. The prize was born in 2013 when Fabiola Gianotti and Peter Jenni, at the time coordinators of the ATLAS experiment, donated for this purpose part of the Fundamental Physics Special Breakthrough Prize that was attributed to them for the leadership role in the discovery of the Higgs boson.
The ATLAS collaboration, which has built and operates one of the two largest experiments at the LHC, has more than 3000 collaborators from 38 countries, including many hundreds of PhD students.
The plenary meeting of December 21st 2020 was open to all LIP members.
Slides presented at the meeting (containing in particular information on the following topics: results of recent funding calls; the new organization of LIP’s indico; informations from ECFA; Student publications and theses on Advanced Training webpage; research line strategy definition; researchers’ evaluation procedure revision; and more…)
A new WordPress infrastructure is being prepared for the LIP webpages, which is able to host group/project public pages fully autonomously managed by the owners. For the groups that already had such pages, the information will be migrated to the new system. If you are interested please contact webapps@lip.pt.
All LIP groups have an institutional wepage with the same format and contents within the “Research” menu. Additionally, some groups have a custom-made webpage, which can be accessed from the institutional page clicking the “Group webpage at LIP” button (check for example ATLAS or CMS in the LHC experiments and phenomenology research line; Auger in the Cosmic Rays research line or Space Rad in the Space Applications research line).
It has been a long-standing request of the groups owning such pages that they could take full control of them, being able to autonomously perform any kind of changes and updates. This issue is finally solved.
Again, If you are interested please contact webapps@lip.pt.
Info on open or expected calls is provided here. A dedicated webpage with more complete information on funding opportunities will soon be created on the LIP public website and linked in this newsletter.
The first ERC Calls in 2021 will be delayed due to the late adoption of the EU Budget 2021-2027 and the Horizon Europe programme. They will open as soon as possible in order to preserve the calendar for the rest of the year. Further info expected around mid-January.
Types of projects: IC&DT, up to 36 months and 250 k€; PeX, up to 18 months and 50 k€.
It’s time to prepare LIP’s detailed and public 2020 report and plan for 2021. During January the information must be put into the LIP DB by the Group PIs. Here you can find further details on the timeline, procedure, and what are the main changes this year.
The subject was presented at the December 2020 plenary meeting of the Scientific Council (SC). The slides linked below include this year’s timeline, organization and procedures (both a summary for newcomers and highlights of the main changes) and a set of recommendations from LIP’s Advisory Board.
The conclusion of the process is expected (very) early in 2021. By January 9th LIP must submit the written replies to the few clarification requests received from the panel after the public presentation of December 10th. For the approved LAs, there will still be a funding negotiation with FCT. Here you can find details on LIP’s application and on the timeline of the call:
Timeline and documents
28 Sep 2020 Opening of the call
29 Oct 2020 Deadline for the application submission (see LIP’s application document)
10 Dec 2020 LIP’s public presentation (see LIP’s presentation slides and video recording)
9 Jan 2021 Deadline to reply to the panel’s clarification request
Next steps Announcement of the results + Funding negotiations with FCT