2006 - Physics Degree, Universidade de Aveiro
2007 - MSc Physics Engineering, Universidade de Aveiro
2011 - PhD, Universidade de Aveiro
2012 to 2018 - Post-doctoral researcher

2019 to present - Researcher 

"Chirality and Magnetocaloricity in GdFeTeO6 as Compared to GdGaTeO6", Elena Zvereva; Tatyana Vasilchikova; Maria Evstigneeva; Angelica Tyureva; Vladimir Nalbandyan; João Gonçalves; Paolo Barone; Alessandro Stroppa; Alexander Vasiliev, Materials, 14(20), 5954 (2021). DOI: 10.3390/ma14205954

"First-Principles Study of Structure and Magnetism in Copper(II)-Containing Hybrid Perovskites", João N. Gonçalves; Anthony E. Phillips; Wei Li; Alessandro Stroppa, Crystals 10(12), 1129 (2020). DOI:10.3390/cryst10121129

"Hg adatoms on graphene: A first-principles study", A. S. Fenta, C. O. Amorim, J. N. Gonçalves. N. Fortunato, M. B. Barbosa, J. P. Araújo, M. Houssa, S. Cottenier, M. J. Van Bael, J. G. Correia, V. S. Amaral, L. M. C. Pereira, Journal of Physics: Materials 4, 015002 (2020). DOI: 10.1088/2515-7639/abc31c

"Volume dependence of magnetic properties in Co2Cr1−xYxGa (Y=Ti-Ni) Heusler alloys: A first-principles study", J. N. Gonçalves, N. M. Fortunato, J. S. Amaral, V. S. Amaral, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 428 362 (2017). DOI: 10.1016%2Fj.jmmm.2016.12.102

"Magnetovolume Effects in Heusler Compounds via First-Principles Calculations", J. N. Gonçalves, J. S. Amaral, V. S. Amaral, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 50 1301104 (2014). DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2326892

"Hyperfine local probe study of alkaline-earth manganites SrMnO₃ and BaMnO₃", J. N. Gonçalves, V. S. Amaral, J. G. Correia, A. M. L. Lopes, J. P. Araújo, P. B. Tavares, Journal of Physics: Condens. Matter 26 215401 (2014). DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/21/215401

"Ab initio study of the relation between electric polarization and electric field gradients in ferroelectrics", J. N. Gonçalves, A. Stroppa, J. G. Correia, T. Butz, S. Picozzi, A. S. Fenta, V. S. Amaral, Physical Review B 86 035145 (2012). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.035145

"Hyperfine interactions in MnAs studied by perturbed angular correlations of γ-rays using the probe Br77→ Se77 and first-principles calculations for MnAs and other Mn pnictides", J. N. Gonçalves, V. S. Amaral, J. G. Correia, A. M. L. Lopes, Physical Review B 83, 104421 (2011). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.104421

Magnetic materials, ferroelectrics, and multiferroics, other functional materials, Heusler compounds, graphene, oxides, oxide surfaces. Density functional theory calculations. Local probe experimental methods such as perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy and complementary calculations. Electric field gradients, hyperfine fields, and their relation to other properties. Magnetovolume effects.