(In the background: the Cascade Mountains, Washington state. Photo taken in 1992.)


Full name: Luís Manuel Balio Lavoura

Birthdate: 16 January 1963

Nationality: portuguese

Gender: male

Marital status: informally married

Children: two, born 20 January 2000 and 27 May 2004



Address: CFTP, Edifício de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Telephone: (+351) 218 419 578

Telefax: (+351) 218 419 143

Email: balio@cftp.ist.utl.pt



Academic degrees:

  • Ph.D. (doutoramento) in particle physics from the College of Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), July 1989.
  • Ms.C. (mestrado) in particle physics from the College of Science of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa), July 1987.
  • Bs.C. (licenciatura) in physics from the College of Science of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa), July 1985.

Present position:

  • Associate researcher (investigador principal) of the Technical University of Lisbon (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) since December 1992.

Previous positions:

  • Postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, 1991-94.
  • Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Dortmund, 1989-91.
  • Research assistant (assistente de investigação) at the Portuguese National Institute for Scientific Research (Instituto Nacional de Investigação Científica), 1987-92.

Scientific area of research: theoretical particle physics.


Some publications:

  • "Renormalization of the neutrino mass operators in multi-Higgs-doublet standard model," European Physics Journal C 39 (2005) 219 (with W. Grimus).

  • "Symmetry realization of texture zeros," European Physics Journal C 36 (2004) 227 (with W. Grimus, A. S. Joshipura, and M. Tanimoto).

  • "Leptogenesis in seesaw models with a twofold-degenerate neutrino Dirac mass matrix," Journal of Physics G 30 (2004) 1073 (with W. Grimus).

  • "Softly broken lepton numbers and maximal neutrino mixing," Journal of High-Energy Physics 07 (2001) 045 (with W. Grimus).

  • "Seesaw model with softly broken L_e - L_mu - L_tau," Journal of High-Energy Physics 0009 (2000) 007 (with W. Grimus).

  • "CP Violation," book published July 1999 by Oxford University Press (with G. C. Branco and J. P. Silva).

  • "A new type of spontaneous CP breaking," Physics Letters B 400 (1997) 152.

  • "Relating the scalar flavour-changing neutral couplings to the CKM matrix," Physics Letters B 380 (1996) 119 (with G. C. Branco and W. Grimus).

  • "Making the small oblique parameters large," Physical Review D 49 (1994) 1409 (with L.-F. Li).

  • "Resuscitation of the minimal SO(10) grand unification," Physical Review D 48 (1993) 264 (with L. Wolfenstein).

  • "On the phase of epsilon and the NA31 bound on CPT violation," Modern Physics Letters A 7 (1992) 1367.

  • "The seesaw mechanism in the presence of a conserved lepton number," Nuclear Physics B 312 (1989) 492 (with G. C. Branco and W. Grimus).


(About 80 physics papers published in international refereed journals in English.)



Last changed 28 May 2004.