The Minister of Foreign Affairs announced in Parliament that Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro, director of a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was shot dead this Tuesday in Boston.
Paulo Rangel was speaking at the beginning of his procedural hearing at the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, which today, on the initiative of the committee’s president, José Cesário, began with a minute of silence for the death of two children of Portuguese descent in France, following a gas explosion.
Rangel joined this minute of silence and mourned the death of the two children, aged three and five, sharing with deputies the news of the death of Nuno Loureiro, shot dead in Boston.
Nuno Loureiro has directed the MIT Plasma and Fusion Science Center since May 2024.
A former student at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Nuno Loureiro’s research focused on theoretical physics and its applications in fusion.
According to the MIT website, Nuno Loureiro had “an active interest in several fundamental aspects of magnetized plasma dynamics, such as magnetic reconnection, generation and amplification of magnetic fields, confinement and transport in fusion plasmas, and turbulence in strongly magnetized and weakly collisional plasmas”.