Vasco Guerra is Professor at the Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and member of the N-PRiME group of Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear. He was born on 12 December 1968, in Torres Vedras, about 50 km North of Lisboa. He graduated in Engineering Physics at IST in 1991 and received the MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST) in 1994 and in 1998, respectively. His research focuses on the modeling of non-equilibrium kinetics of low-temperature molecular plasmas. He has co-authored more than 85 papers in international journals and about 200 communications in international conferences. In 2016 he was awarded the William Crookes Plasma Prize, co-sponsored by the European Physical Society and the Institute of Physics Publishing, for the outstanding contribution to the modeling of molecular low-temperature plasmas.
