Nuno Loureiro had
Nuno Loureiro ran a laboratory at the renowned MIT, in Massachusetts. There is, at this time, no further information about the incident.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs announced in parliament that the Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureirodirector of a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was shot dead in Boston, this Tuesday.
Paulo Rangel was speaking at the beginning of his regular hearing at the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, which today, on the initiative of the committee’s president, José Cesário, began with a minute of silence, following a gas explosion. Rangel joined this minute of silence and mourned the death of the two children, aged three and five, sharing with deputies the news of the death of Nuno Loureiro, shot dead in the United States.
There is, at this time, no further information about the incident.
O Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering has directed the MIT Center for Plasma Science and Fusion since May 2024. A former student at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Nuno Loureiro’s research focused on theoretical physics and its applications in fusion.
According to , Nuno Loureiro, who was once researcher at the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST Lisbon, had “an active interest in several fundamental aspects of magnetized plasma dynamics, such as magnetic reconnection, generation and amplification of magnetic fields, confinement and transport in fusion plasmas, and turbulence in strongly magnetized and weakly collisional plasmas.”
