Nuno Peres graduated from the University of Évora in physics and chemistry and holds a master degree in theoretical physics, from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He occupied a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Évora and is currently Full Professor at the University of Minho. His interests encompass nano-optics of 2D materials, light-matter interactions at the nano-scale, electronic properties of 2D materials, and many-body physics in condensed matter.
Nuno Peres is the Co-author of 200+ papers including two papers in Reviews of Modern Physics, and a book on the plasmonic properties of graphene. From these 200+ papers, . He has been dedicated to research on low dimensional quantum materials since 2004, focused on the electronic properties and light-matter interaction in these systems. He was awarded the Gulbenkian Science Award 2011 and is an effective member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
