Carla Faria

Faria is from Belém. She studied physics at the University of São Paulo. She worked with Vanderlei Bagnato on cold matter and atom trapping.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/people/dr-carla-figueira-de-morisson-faria|title=Dr Carla Figueira De Morisson Faria|last=UCL|date=2018-04-25|website=UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}} Her masters dissertation considered magneto-optical traps.{{Cite thesis|title=Configurações espaciais para um átomo de dois níveis em armadilhas magneto-óticas: estruturas em anéis|url=http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/54/54131/tde-12052014-153442/|publisher=Universidade de São Paulo|date=1994-01-21|degree=text|language=pt-br|first=Carla Figueira de Morisson|last=Faria}} She joined the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin, where she was supervised by Wolfgang Sandner. Faria joined the Max Planck Institute for Physics in 1999. She held postdoctoral positions at TU Wien, Leibniz University Hannover and Max Born Institute.{{Cite web|url=http://mitarbeiter.mbi-berlin.de/faria/|title=Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria|website=mitarbeiter.mbi-berlin.de|access-date=2019-02-16|archive-date=2007-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827123324/http://mitarbeiter.mbi-berlin.de/faria/|url-status=dead}} Her early work considered the time profiles of high harmonic generation.{{Cite journal|last1=Figueira de Morisson Faria|first1=Carla|last2=Dörr|first2=Martin|last3=Sandner|first3=Wolfgang|date=1997-05-01|title=Time profile of harmonic generation|journal=Physical Review A|volume=55|issue=5|pages=3961–3963|doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3961|bibcode=1997PhRvA..55.3961F}}

Faria joined City University of London as a Research Fellow in 2005 and was made an EPSRC Advanced Lecturer in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapcfi/backgrd.html|title=Carla Faria's CV|website=www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk|access-date=2019-02-16}} She contributed to the 2007 book Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJsqv2sdCRYC&q=Carla+Figueira+de+Morisson+Faria+theoretical+physics+laser&pg=PR9|title=Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science II|last1=Chin|first1=See Leang|last2=Agostini|first2=Pierre|last3=Ferrante|first3=Gaetano|date=2007-06-10|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783540381563|language=en}} In 2007 she moved to University College London.{{Citation|last=StudyUCL|title=Tell me about Physics|date=2017-05-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYB5VcJfcc|access-date=2019-02-17}} She is a member of the Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics group.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/amopp/amopp-academic-staff|title=AMOPP Academic Staff|last=UCL|date=2018-05-23|website=Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics|language=en|access-date=2019-02-16}} Her research considers laser fields that have stronger intensities than 10¹³ Wcm⁻². At these intensities, there is laser-induced scattering of electrons with their parent ions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.icfo.eu/calendar2?event=773|website=www.icfo.eu|access-date=2019-02-17|title=ICFO - calendar2|archive-date=2021-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130001639/https://www.icfo.eu/calendar2?event=773|url-status=dead}} Faria studies the temporal and spatial interference of these. She uses strong-laser physics in solid-state electronic devices, in plasma physics and as X-ray sources. She was made a Professor of Physics in October 2018.

In 2021, Faria was awarded the Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize for her "contributions to the theory of strong-field laser-matter interactions".{{Cite web|title=2021 Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize|url=https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2021-joseph-thomson-medal-and-prize|access-date=2021-11-29|website=2021 Joseph Thomson Medal and Prize {{!}} Institute of Physics|language=en}}

She was named as a 2025 Fellow of Optica, "for outstanding and sustained contributions to the theory of laser-matter interaction, and for extraordinary and innovative outreach efforts".{{cite web|url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/|title=Elected fellows|publisher=Optica|access-date=2025-04-10}}

• C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, X. Liu. 2011. Electron–electron correlation in strong laser fields. Journal of Modern Optics 59:8, pages 679-685. doi:10.1080/09500340.2010.543958.
• C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, H. Schomerus, W Becker. 2002. High-order above-threshold ionization: The uniform approximation and the effect of the binding potential. Phys. Rev. A 66, 043413. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043413.
• C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, Andreas Fring. 2006. Time evolution of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems. J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 9269. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/39/29/018.
• C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, Henning Schomerus, X. Liu, W. Becker. 2004. Electron-electron dynamics in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization. Phys. Rev. A 69, 043405. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043405.

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