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Email: rogerio.jorge (at) wisc.edu

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Rogerio Jorge is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His previous appointment was at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Portugal, where he was an Invited Assistant Professor and Junior Researcher. He was the Principal Investigator of an EUROfusion’s Enabling Research Grant [link1, link2] and an FCT CEEC Grant at the Junior Researcher level, 2021 edition [link].  Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. From 2019-2021 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is interested in the study of plasmas for fusion energy and in the description of three-dimensional magnetic fields. Rogerio obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering Physics at IST, Lisbon (Portugal), and his Ph.D. at IST and EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) under the IST-EPFL Joint Doctoral Initiative. For his Ph.D. thesis, which obtained a unanimous jury classification of Pass with Distinction and Honour, he received the 2020 EPS-PPD Ph.D. Research Award [link] and the EPFL Physics Doctoral Thesis Award [link]. He is also a member of the “Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy” [link], the first Simons Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Award supporting fusion science that has been granted to an international team of scientists and mathematicians from eight U.S. universities and four international institutions. Rogerio also is also an invited columnist at the newspaper “Observador”, writing about science, technology, and the economy. His articles are available here.

You can read his CV here, and bio here.

Besides his research, Rogerio is interested in learning new musical instruments and genres. He completed the 8-year course in Music Theory, Composition, and Acoustics at Conservatorio David de Sousa, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, with a complementary degree in classical guitar and a final classification of 18/20. In 2018, he founded the accordion, guitar, and ukulele school at the Portuguese ACPns association in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2009, Rogerio started uploading free educational videos in physics and mathematics to the YouTube channel Matmania1 [link]. In 2012, the channel was rebranded to Portal da Sabedoria and was later sponsored by the University of Lisbon, Santander, and Novabase Gameshifters to assemble a team with more than 10 people and cover a wide range of topics, including chemistry, economics, and medicine. A start-up with the same name was founded in 2014 to leverage the expertise acquired by the team on online education and apply it to physics and mathematics tutoring.

Documentary Film on Nuclear Fusion at EPFL – Hora dos Portugueses, RTP television channel (full show here)

A film by Valdo Peixoto and Vanessa Santos

Presentation at the 2023 Simons Collaboration on Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy Annual Meeting (conference link here)

Two Master’s students (Paulo Figueiredo, left, and Miguel Madeira, right) and Thesis Supervisor (Rogério Jorge, middle)