Tiago Águeda

Experience

1. Jul 2017 – Jun 2019Aveiro, Portugal

   Consultant and tutor · Independent

   Self-employed technical consulting and tutoring. The freelance structure was a deliberate choice: it gave the schedule flexibility that family caregiving required.

   • Technical reports on nanomaterials, renewable energies, computational physics, simulation and telecommunications; writing and reviewing of scientific publications, mainly for private clients and one private foundation.
   • One-to-one and small-group tutoring of university students in electromagnetism, computer simulation, mathematics, statistics and mechanics.
   • Built a custom invoicing tool to run the practice.

   MATLABPythonStatisticsTechnical writing
2. Aug 2011 – Jun 2017Aveiro, Portugal

   Researcher · Universidade de Aveiro · i3N

   Computational physics research at the Department of Physics and i3N, the Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication, focused on first-principles modelling of materials for energy and electronic applications.

   • Designed and ran simulations with ABINIT (early years) and VASP (from about 2013) in HPC cluster environments.
   • Contributed to several FCT-funded projects in close collaboration with experimental groups; modelling for the NATO-funded eSicure project on radiation detectors for port security.
   • Co-authored peer-reviewed publications on defects in amorphous silicon, kesterite photovoltaics (Cu₂ZnSnS₄) and electronic coupling in nanocrystal solids.
   • Daily work spanned numerical simulation, scripting and post-processing pipelines, technical writing, and presenting results to mixed theory and experiment audiences.

   DFTVASPABINITHPCFortran
3. Sept 2013 – Mar 2017Aveiro, Portugal

   Teaching assistant · Universidade de Aveiro

   Lab teaching for second-year students, mainly Electricity & Magnetism and Simulation & Modelling (MATLAB), plus Computational Physics in 2017.

   • Two lab sessions a week with about 30 students each: more than 300 students taught over four years.
   • Students from Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Economics and other backgrounds, which meant adapting explanations, worked examples and assessment to very different audiences.
   • Designed and wrote all lab materials, exercises and assessment criteria for the courses taught.

   E&MMATLABComputational physics
4. Mar 2010 – Jun 2010Porto, Portugal

   Technical support specialist · NOS SGPS

   Front-line technical support for cable and satellite television customers in a high-volume call centre: diagnosing issues by phone, escalating where needed and explaining solutions to non-technical users.

   Customer support

Education

• 2003 – 2011Master’s degree, Engineering Physics
  Universidade de Aveiro
• 2000 – 2003High school, Science and Technology
  Escola Secundária Júlio Dinis

Publications

1. [1]Resonant electronic coupling enabled by small molecules in nanocrystal solidsR. N. Pereira, J. Coutinho, S. Niesar, T. A. Oliveira, W. Aigner, H. Wiggers, M. J. Rayson, P. R. Briddon, M. S. Brandt, M. StutzmannNano Letters 14, 3817–3826 (2014) · doi:10.1021/nl500932q · Nanocrystal solids
2. [2]Born effective charges of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ quaternary compound: first principles calculationsT. A. Oliveira, J. Coutinho, V. J. B. TorresThin Solid Films 535, 311–313 (2013) · doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2012.10.115 · Kesterite photovoltaics
3. [3]Ab initio modelling of boron related defects in amorphous siliconT. A. Oliveira, V. J. B. Torresphysica status solidi (c) 9, 1952–1954 (2012) · doi:10.1002/pssc.201200256 · Defects in amorphous silicon

Published as Tiago A. Oliveira.