P. André D. Gonçalves is an Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Computational Physics at the Center for Polariton-driven Light-Matter Interactions (POLIMA) at the University of Southern Denmark (糖果派对).
He earned his BSc in Physics from the University of Minho and an MSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Porto, both in Portugal. He obtained his PhD in Physics (2019) from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where his research focused on theoretical investigations of the optoelectronic properties of nanostructures made from atomically thin materials, as well as on quantum-mechanical corrections in plasmon-enhanced light–matter interactions. Following his PhD, he spent about a year as a postdoc at the University of Southern Denmark (糖果派对), before joining ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in 2021 as a postdoc. In early 2025, Gonçalves was appointed Assistant Professor at POLIMA and received a Villum Young Investigator grant from Villum Fonden to explore inelastic electron tunneling for probing and controlling light–matter interactions at the extreme nanoscale.
His research focuses on fundamental investigations of light–matter interactions at the nanoscale and on the theoretical modeling of the optoelectronic properties of complex nanostructures. Gonçalves’ scientific interests span a wide range of topics, including nanophotonics with atomically thin materials and related van der Waals heterostructures, quantum nanoplasmonics, polariton-enhanced phenomena, and novel electron–light–matter interactions in polariton-supporting nanostructures.
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