Carla Figueira De Morisson Faria is a Brazilian physicist and professor at

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. She works on theoretical strong-field laser-matter interactions.

Early life and education

Faria is from

Belém Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...

. She studied

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at the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

. She worked with Vanderlei Bagnato on cold matter and atom trapping. Her masters dissertation considered

magneto-optical trap A magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially-varying magnetic field to create a trap which can produce samples of cold, trapped, neutral atoms. Temperatures achieved in a MOT can be as low as several microk ...

s. She joined the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin, where she was supervised by Wolfgang Sandner. Faria joined the

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in 1999. She held postdoctoral positions at

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Leibniz University Hannover Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational Sc ...

and Max Born Institute. Her early work considered the time profiles of high harmonic generation.

Research and career

Faria joined

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as a Research Fellow in 2005 and was made an

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Advanced Lecturer in 2006. She contributed to the 2007 book ''Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II''. In 2007 she moved to

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. She is a member of the ''Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics'' group. Her research considers laser fields that have stronger intensities than 10¹³ Wcm⁻². At these intensities, there is laser-induced scattering of electrons with their parent ions. Faria studies the temporal and spatial interference of these. She uses strong-laser physics in

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electronic devices, in

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and as X-ray sources. She was made a Professor of Physics in October 2018.

Awards

In 2021, Faria was awarded the Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize for her "contributions to the theory of strong-field laser-matter interactions".

Selected publications

* C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, X. Liu. 2011. Electron–electron correlation in strong laser fields. ''Journal of Modern Optics'' 59:8, pages 679-685. doi: 10.1080/09500340.2010.543958. * C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, H. Schomerus, W Becker. 2002. High-order above-threshold ionization: The uniform approximation and the effect of the binding potential. ''Phys. Rev''. A 66, 043413. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043413. *C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, Andreas Fring. 2006. Time evolution of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems. ''J. Phys. A: Math. Gen.'' 39 9269. doi: 10.1088/0305-4470/39/29/018. *C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, Henning Schomerus, X. Liu, W. Becker. 2004. Electron-electron dynamics in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization. Phys. Rev. A 69, 043405. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043405.

References

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