Theses

PhD

 

 

• SpaceRAD – An Integrated Framework for the Radiation Environment in Space, on Mars and on the Moon and its Implications for Human Space Flight
  Bruna Filipa Couto Lima
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  Ongoing
• Advanced Methods for Solar Energetic Particle Events Characterization in the Inner Solar System
  António Pessanha Gomes
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  Ongoing
• Development of a Directionality Detector and Radiation Hardness Assurance for RADEM, the ESA JUICE mission Radiation Monitor
  Marco Gui Alves Pinto
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  July 2019
• Analysis of Near Relativistic Protons and Electrons in Solar events
  Jorge Bruno Morgado
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  July 2016
• Mars Radiation Environment and Effects on EEE Components
  Ana Oliveira Braga Keating, PhD Thesis,
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
  September 2008

Master

• Machine learning techniques for particle flux reconstruction applied to the ESA JUICE mission radiation monitor, RADEM

Rafael Parente

Instituto Superior Técnico

• Characterization of the interplanetary radiation environment and optimization of the European Space Agency JUICE mission High-Energy Electron Detector Head

André Rodrigues

Instituto Superior Técnico

Ongoing

Outreach Video:

• Characterization of the Radiation Environment in the Inner Solar System from ESA’s BepiColombo Observations

Inês Rosa

Instituto Superior Técnico

Ongoing

Outreach Video:

 

• Radiation Environment The Lunar Ionising Radiation Environment – A Benchmark Model

Bruna Filipa Couto Lima

Instituto Superior Técnico

4th December 2025

Outreach Video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Z-4kxge8B7SZon2yOORowv1ip2psc6C/view?usp=sharing

• Modelling the Lunar Subsurface Ionising Radiation Environment

Tiago Miguel Fernandes Neves

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa

27th November 2025

 

• Flight data analysis of the BERM radiation monitor abord the BepiColombo mission to Mercury

António Pessanha Gomes

Instituto Superior Técnico

16th November 2023

Outreach video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dTz7jfzPWr8dy1kqIA_EpAN44c2bWe-1/view?usp=sharing

 

• Launching the Radiation Hard Electron Monitor aboard of the ESA JUICE mission

Francisca Santos

Instituto Superior Técnico

Outreach Video:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1xv9yiMAJLeXXPAMOAtQr92P1op0hzAMr

• Life Prospection on Mars. Studying the Martian Subsurface Radiation Environment

Igor Miguel Gago

Instituto Superior Técnico

On Going

Outreach Video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A455t2_gURyzS1bgOWOtp2W8tY1P77M-/view?usp=sharing

• Flight data analysis of the BERM radiation monitor aboard the BepiColombo mission to Mercury

Carlota Patrícia Donga Cardoso

Instituto Superior Técnico

5th July 2022

Outreach video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/114ib3zKYyJrC7VeTcIMXcFWdlaOPY-Vg/view?usp=sharing

• Development of an in-flight EEE component test system with integrated radiation monitoring for TID measurement
  Pedro Manuel Gom Moreira
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  Novembro 2019
• Analysis of in-flight data on the AlphaSat radiation Environment and Effects Facility MultiFunctional Spectrometer
  Filipe Máximo Carvalho
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  June 2019
• Radiation Hardness Assessment of MR sensors for Space Applications
  Pedro Filipe Lança Alves
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  November 2017
• Effects of the Space Radiation Environment in Manned Missions to Mars
  Ana Luísa Casimiro
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  June 2016
• Radiation Environment and its Effects on the Martian Surface and Underground
  Pedro Magalhães
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
  June 2016
• Radiation Environment and Effects in Human Spaceflight: A Lunar Mission
  João Tiago Duarte Sabino, MsC Thesis,
  Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,
  November 2011