Nuno Torrado

Experience

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  Vermelhudo Martial Arts

  Sept 2014 - Jul 2016

  Junior Instructor

  Lead Taekwondo training for martial arts students, including black belts, from three-year olds to adults, in groups of one to sixty peopleParticipated and refereed in national and international tournamentsCoached in martial arts inspired team-building events, organized by Neves de Almeida Consulting

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  Intercruises Shoreside and Port Services

  Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

  Part Time On-Land Attendant

  Responsible for handling on-land customer services and processing amenity requests from luxury cruise costumersCheck-in agent: assisted costumers with boarding procedures (mostly German and American) and clarified queriesupon arrivalLuggage assistant: managed luggage collection and delivery services

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  IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

  Jul 2019 - Oct 2023

  Participated in the project and construction of a plasma source for CERN's AWAKE project (https://home.cern/science/accelerators/awake).Developed high voltage pulse supply elements (HV switch, HV diodes, transformer, snubber circuit).Designed and developed current and voltage sensors for oscilloscope. Built and tested high voltage flyback pulse generator.Presented a Talk at physics conference, "Física 2020", in Portugal (November 4th, 2020, "Plasmas longos para aceleradores a plasma de alta energia" https://fisica2020.spf.pt/programa). Show less

  • Doctoral Student

    Dec 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Research Intern

    Oct 2019 - Dec 2021

  • Summer Internship

    Jul 2019 - Sept 2019
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  Hephaestus Technologies

  Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

  Consulting Intern

  Studied the project of a fusion reactor.Contributed to the sizing and design of a power supply. Developed MATLAB/Simulink simulations for a power supply

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  CERN

  Oct 2022 - Dec 2023

  Doctoral Student

  Designed and assembled the power supply modules charging the pulse generatorsDesigned and developed a common mode choke based magnetic circuit to balance current between two plasma tubesPerformed high-voltage tests of single and double plasmas with lengths of 1.6 m, 3.5 m, 6.5 m and 10 mParticipated in the commissioning and control of the discharge plasma source in the AWAKE run 2cPresented a poster at the 6th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (https://agenda.infn.it/event/35577/contributions/208682/)Published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science titled: "Double Pulse Generator for Unipolar Discharges in Long Plasma Tubes for the AWAKE Experiment" (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10355763) Show less

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  IPFN - Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear

  Jan 2024 - Mar 2025

  Doctoral Student

  Submitted a paper titled "Double pulse generator for AWAKE scalable discharge plasma source" for IOPscience Journal of Physics: Conference SeriesPerformed high-voltage tests of single plasma discharges of 5 mStudied the development of a Supercondutor Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) prototype for pulsed power applicationsLearned the basics of COMSOL simulationsPresented a talk in the 8th IDPASC/LIP Students Workshop (October 2024, “Length-Scalable Discharge Plasma Source for AWAKE”) Show less

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  CERN

  Mar 2025 - now

  Electrical Engineer