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Present position and institution:
Full Professor, Physics Department, IST Director of CFP and Head of GoLP
Domains of Activity:
General Interests: plasma physics, classical and quantum electrodynamics, lasers, nonlinear optics, dynamical systems, nuclear fusion.
Present interests: acceleration of electrons and photons in laboratory and in astrophysics, physics of intense laser pulses, laser-plasma interactions, neutrino astrophysics, gravitational waves.
Most recent publications:
- Mendonça JT, Serbeto A, Davies JR Bingham R
Plasmon kinetics and ion instabilities Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 50, 105009 (2008) - Mendonca JT
Axion excitation by intense laser fields Europhysics Letters 79, 21001 (2007) - Murphy CD, Trines R, Vieira J, Reitsma AJW, Bingham R, Collier JL, Divall EJ, Foster PS, Hooker CJ, Langley AJ, Norreys PA, Fonseca RA, Fiuza F, Silva LO, Mendonça JT, Mori WB,Gallacher JG, Viskup R, Jaroszynski DA, Mangles SPD, Thomas AGR, Krushelnick K
Evidence of photon acceleration by laser wake fields Physics of Plasmas 13, 033108 (2006) - Lundstrom E, Brodin G, Lundin J, Marklund M, Bingham R, Collier J, Mendonca JT, Norreys P
Using high-power lasers for detection of elastic photon-photon scattering Physical Review Letters 96, 083602 (2006) - Mendonça JT, Dias de Deus J, Castelo Ferreira P
Higher harmonics in vacuum from nonlinear QED effects without low-mass intermediate particles Physical Review Letters 97, 100403 (2006)
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