CFTP/Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal Department of Physics

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1 Curriculum Vitae Sofia Leitão Updated on October 13, 2016 Contacts and Personal Data CFTP/ Dept. Física IST Full name: Sofia Isabel Cardoso de Almeida Leitão Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 Date of Birth: 21 st June Lisboa, Portugal Nationality: Portuguese Phone: Mobile phone: Fax: sofia.leitao@tecnico.ulisboa.pt Personal webpage: Research Interests Current Research Topics: Effective hadronic theories. Meson properties. Quarkonia spectra and structure. IST group on Hadron Physics: Past Research Topics: Neutrino oscillations: Reactor Anti-Neutrinos, Solar Neutrinos and Geo-neutrinos in SNO (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory) and SNO+. LIP group on Neutrino Physics: Present Position PhD fellow (FCT) at the Centre for Theoretical Particle Physics (CFTP)/ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal, since January Education CFTP/Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal Department of Physics Ph.D. degree in Physics, began in January 2013 Supervisor: Dr. Teresa Peña Co-Supervisor: Dr. Alfred Stadler CFTP/Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal Department of Physics Master s degree-msc. in Physics Engineering, September 2010 to November 2012 Grade: 19/20 Dissertation Topic: Mesons in a Covariant Quark-Constituent Formalism Supervisor: Dr. Teresa Peña Co-Supervisor: Dr. Alfred Stadler Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal Undergraduate diploma in Physics Engineering, September 2007 to July 2010 Grade: 18/20 Visits Visitor at the Theory Center of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Virginia, USA, May 2015 to collaborate with Dr. Franz Gross and other members of the Center on topics in theoretical hadron physics and to participate in the 30th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies Program.

2 Conferences, Worshops & Schools Academic Experience LC2016- Light Cone Lisbon 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September, XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, Greece, August-September, Excited QCD th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies Program, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, May, Connecting formalisms in Minkowski and Euclidean space, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, January, LET THERE BE LIGHT: DIALOGUES AROUND LIGHT Conference organized by the Portuguese Physical Society (SPF) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG), marking the International Year of the celebrations of Light 2015 (IYL) in Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, December HUGS- 30 th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies Program, Newport News, Virginia, USA, May-June FB21-21 st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May EEF70- Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non- Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experiment, Coimbra, Portugal, September th IDPASC School & Workshop on New Worlds in Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology, Braga, Portugal, PASCWinter School, Sesimbra, Portugal, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal Invited teaching assistant September (MO65179) Mechanics and Waves, Fall Invited teaching assistant February July 2016 Co-taught undergraduate level course for: Bologna Degree in Materials Enginering, Integrated Master Degree in Biological Engineering, Integrated Master Degree in Chemical Engineering and Integrated Master Degree in Environmental Engineering. Shared responsibility for exercise classes, exams and grades. (MO ) Mechanics and Waves, Summer Invited teaching assistant September January 2016 (MO65) Mechanics and Waves, Fall Invited teaching assistant February July 2015 Co-taught undergraduate level course for: Bologna Degree in Materials Enginering, Integrated Master Degree in Biological Engineering, Integrated Master Degree in Chemical Engineering and Integrated Master Degree in Environmental Engineering. Shared responsibility for exercise classes, exams and grades. (MO ) Mechanics and Waves, Summer Invited teaching assistant September January 2015 (MO65) Mechanics and Waves, Fall Invited teaching assistant February July 2014 Co-taught undergraduate level course for the Master of Physics Engineering. Shared responsibility

3 for lectures, exams, homework assignments, development of numerical simulations and grades. (MAna3645) Analytical Mechanics, Summer Invited teaching assistant February July 2013 Co-taught undergraduate level course for the Master of Physics Engineering. Shared responsibility for exercise classes, exams, homework assignments, and grades. (MAna364) Analytical Mechanics, Summer Publications Refereed publications Heavy-light mesons in Minkowski space, Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat. Acta Physica Polonica Proceedings Supplement, Vol. 9, No 3, pp (2015). Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels, Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat. submitted to Phys. Letters. B, (2016). Covariant Spectator Theory and Hadron Structure, M. T. Peña, Sofia Leitão, Elmar P. Biernat, Alfred Stadler, J. E. Ribeiro and Franz Gross. Few Body Syst. 57 (2016) no.6, Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model, Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat. EPJ Web Conf. 113 (2016) A covariant constituent-quark formalism for meson, Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat. Acta Physica Polonica Proceedings Supplement, Vol. 8, pp (2015). Linear confinement in momentum space: Singularity-free bound-state equations, Sofia Leitão, Alfred Stadler, M. T. Peña, and Elmar P. Biernat. Phys. Rev. D 90, (2014). Singularity free two-body equation with confining interactions in momentum space, Alfred Stadler, Sofia Leitão, M. T. Peña, Elmar P. Biernat. Few-Body Systems August 2014, Volume 55, Issue 8-10, pp The SNO+ experiment: status and overview, SNO+ Collaboration (José Maneira et al.). J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 447 (2013) Status and prospects of SNO+, SNO+ Collaboration (J. Maneira (LIP, Lisbon) for the collaboration). Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 217 (2011) Talks & Poster sessions Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels* Invited seminar presented at LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas), Lisbon, Portugal, September Covariant Spectator Theory of heavy-light and heavy mesons and the predictive power of covariant interaction kernels* Invited talk presented at Light Cone 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September Relativistic phenomenology of meson spectra with a covariant quark model in Minkowski space Talk presented at XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September Quarks and other Paths* Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2016 at IST, Lisbon, Portugal, July Heavy-light mesons in Minkowski space Talk presented at Excited QCD 2016, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, May Introduction to Yang-Mills theories in Coulomb gauge*

4 Invited seminar presented at the Physics Department, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2016 MuSES- Mesons: Spectrum and Electromagnetic Structure Poster session presented at PhD Open days, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, November Quarkonia and Heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model* Invited seminar presented at the CFTP goup cycle of seminars Lisbon, Portugal, November Quarks and Paths* Invited seminar presented at Hands on Quantum Mechanics Workshop 2015 at IST, Lisbon, Portugal, July Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model Talk presented at HUGS school at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA, June Quarkonia and heavy-light mesons in a covariant quark model Talk presented at FB21-21 st International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May A covariant constituent-quark formalism for mesons Talk presented at EEF70 Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non- Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD vs. Experiment, Coimbra, Portugal, September Chiral-symmetry breaking and Confinement in Minkowski space Contributed talk presented at LIGHT CONE 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, May Mesons in CST approach Talk presented at 4th IDPASC School, Braga, Portugal, January Singularity-free two-body equation with confining interactions in momentum space Contributed talk presented at EFB22-22nd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Krakow, Poland, September Baryons: extracting information from Electroproduction data Contributed talk presented at International Workshop- MesonNet meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, June Nuclear reactor anti-neutrino oscillations with SNO+ Talk presented at PASC WINTER SCHOOL, Sesimbra, Portugal, December Workshop Organization 5-8 September (2016) Light Cone Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Outreach Afinal qual é a massa de que somos feitos?* Invited seminar for the High school senior year students, Colégio Salesianos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, September Estados ligados, confinamento e a massa de que somos feitos* Invited seminar presented at the meeting with future students of the Physics Major, MEFT - A desafiar os limites da Cincia e da Tecnologia, IST, Lisbon, Portugal, June Fellowships and Awards IST Outstanding Teaching Award 23 June 2016 in the course of Waves and Mechanics. JSA/HUGS International Fellowship for Graduate Students at Jefferson Laboratory May June 2015 Research Fellow (BI-FCT) at CFTP April April 2012

5 Supervised by Prof. Dr. Teresa Peña and Prof. Dr. Alfred Stadler, part of the project Estrutura hadrnica com modelos relativistas. (FCT PTDC/FIS/113940/2009) Research Fellow (BII-FCT and BI-FCT) at LIP-Lisboa March March 2011 with the duration of 12 months and 24 months respectively. Supervised by Dr. Sofia Andringa and Dr. Jos Maneira, part of the project Participao portuguesa nas experincias SNO e SNO+. (CERN/FP/83548/2008). Best Student Prize July 2007 Municipality of Oeiras award to the best high school student. Bronze Medal São Paulo Olympics of Mathematics May 2005 Languages Portuguese - Native English - Fluent French - Very good Spanish - Intermediate Computer Skills Scientific Software: Mathematica Languages: C and C++, some use of Unix shell scripts and Python Applications: L A TEX, common Windows database, spreadsheet, and presentation software Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows