Alexandra Ines Sarabando de Carvalho
Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication (I3N)
Department of Physics
University of Aveiro
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal
Email: aicarvalho@ua.pt, carvalho@excc.ex.ac.uk
Fax: +351234378197
About Alexandra
A Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Aveiro Portugal, she investigates problems related to doping and defects in silicon nanostructures. Alexandra Carvalho received her first degree at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2005. This was followed by a PhD at the University of Exeter, UK (2005-2008), where she investigated defects in semiconductors, and an incursion at the physics of ferroelectrics as a post-doctoral researcher at the EPFL, Switzerland. She moved to the University of Aveiro in 2010. Her research was recently distinguished with the “Incentive to the Research Award 2011″ by the Gulbenkian Foundation. She is specially interested in materials for solar cells, and other forms of energy harvesting. She sees theory through engineer’s eyes, always using modelling to find the answers that work – in practice.