Associate Professor
University of Azores
Portugal
Helena Cristina Vasconcelos is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Azores University. She is a research member of the Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys). She has received her bachelor’s degree in Physics and Materials Engineering in 1990, obtaining, in 1999, the PhD in Materials Engineering. Her main research interests are in optical materials, fluorescence, and photonics (rare-earth doped glasses). Other interests include the development of materials for commercial use in solid targets to produce radioisotopes in low/medium energy cyclotrons.