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Curriculum Vitae

Graca Rocha ¸

1 Personal
Name: Graca Maria Moreira de Sousa Teixeira da Rocha. ¸ Nationality: Portuguese. Work address: Cavendish Astrophysics Group Cavendish Laboratory Madingley Road Cambridge CB3 OHE 44-(0)1223-337312 44-(0)1223-354599 graca@mrao.cam.ac.uk

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2 Academic
2.1 Academic career
· 1987 Licenciatura in Mathematics branch of scientific specialization in Pure Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Porto (four year degree in Mathematics/Theoretical Mathematics). · 1985/91 1985/87 - Supervision of classes in `Theory of Manifolds' final year option course for the Mathematics degree in the University of Porto. 1986/91 - Teacher of Mathematics in High School at Porto. ´ · 1990/91 Research in Optics and its applications supervised by Prof. Jos e R. Salcedo at Faculty of Science, University of Porto. · 1991 Licenciatura in Physics and Applied Mathematics, majoring in Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Porto (four year degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics). · 1992 Master of Science in Astrophysics Degree, Department of Mathematics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. MSc supervisor: Prof. Peter Coles · 1997 Doctor of Philosophy, PhD., in the University of Cambridge, Physics Department, MRAO, and Downing College, UK. Research undertaken in the Radio Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory in the University of Cambridge in Cosmology. PhD supervisor: Prof. A.N. Lasenby Thesis title: `Comparison of Microwave Background Predictions and Observations'. · 1997 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics, Kansas State University, USA. Collaborator: Dr. Bharat Ratra · 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP), Portugal. Collaborators: Dr. Pedro Pina, Dr. Carlos Martins, Dr. Pedro Viana · 1998 Invited Lecturer for fourth-year course on `Extragalactic Astronomy' (option in Astronomy) for the Physics and Applied Mathematics degree, University of Porto · 1999 Lecturer of post-graduate course on `Comparison of Microwave Background Predictions and Observations', held at CAUP, June-July, 1999. · 2000/01 Visitor at the University of Oxford, research on `Testing Cosmological models with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation', in collaboration with Prof. J. ~ Silk, Dr. Pedro Ferreira at Physics department of the University of Oxford; Dr. Jo ao Magueijo at Imperial College, University of London; Prof. A.N. Lasenby, Dr. Mike Hobson at Cavendish laboratory, University of Cambridge.


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· Since 2001 Research Associate at the Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP), Portugal. · Since 2000 Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford, Astrophysics group. · Since October 2001 Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge, UK. The Cambridge Leverhulme Quantitative Cosmology group is a collaboration between the Institute of Astronomy, the Cavendish Astrophysics and DAMTP Cosmology groups, all within the University of Cambridge. Collaborators: Dr. Mike Hobson, Dr. Anthony Challinor, Prof. Anthony Lasenby, among others. · 2004/5 Lecturer of a graduate course on 'The Cosmic Microwave Background and Structure Formation', at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge. · Currently PhD Supervisor of Sarah Smith and Nutan Rajguru at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge.


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2.2 Other Teaching experience
· 1994 College supervisor for the course `Part IA Elementary Mathematics for Biologists', New Hall, University of Cambridge. · 2002 College supervisor for the course `Mathematical Tripos Part IB, Electromagnetism (O5)',Queens, Pembroke, Magdalene and Jesus College, University of Cambridge. · Since 2002 External Interviewer for Undergraduate Mathematics Admissions for Magdalene College. · 2003 College supervisor for the course `Mathematical Tripos Part IB, Introduction to Special Relativity (P6a)', Downing and Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.


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2.3 Other Research experience
· 1999 Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the `International Conference on Modern Theories of Structure Formation', held in Porto, CAUP, September 13-18, 1999. · Since 1999 Element of the `CMBNET: Cosmic Microwave Background Network in Europe for Theory and Data Analysis' within the European V-framework, as member of the `Cambridge Planck Analysis Center', CPAC. · 2000 Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the CMBNET meeting, held at Oxford, first week of December 2000. · Since 2001 Member of the `Cambridge Planck Analysis Center', CPAC, as an Associate of the current working group. Planck satellite is a mission of ESA's Horizon 2000 Scientific program designed to image the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation over the whole sky. I am also a member of several Planck Technical Working groups (WG1.7, WG4.1 and WG4.3, etc.). · Since 2002 Member of the Planck project team in the HFI as DPC (data processing), ScS (Scientific support) and Coll (Collaborator). · 2002 Co-organizer of a JENAM (Joint European National Astronomical Meeting) 2002 workshop `The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants', held at Porto on September 3-5. · Referee for the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal (MNRAS). · Referee for the Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA). · Scientific consultant for the Scientific and Technical Translation to Portuguese Prize Award eg. on the book 'The Elegant Universe' by Brian R. Green translated from ~ english to portuguese by Joao Pimentel and Ricardo Schiama. · Organizer of the `Cambridge Cosmology and Astrophysics Lunch' held weekly at DAMTP, Cambridge. · Team member of research projects funded by FCT, Portugal.


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3 Scholarships
· Leverhulme Fellowship for research in the University of Cambridge. · FCT Postdoctoral Fellowship (by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)) for research at the Center for Astrophysics of the University of Porto (CAUP). · NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSF grant with matching support from the State of Kansas and from a K*STAR First award) for research in the Kansas State University. · JNICT PhD scholarship for research in the University of Cambridge. · JNICT MSc scholarship for research in the University of London. · JNICT scholarship for research in optics and its applications, 1990-91, in the University of Porto.