She's too good to be true!

She is always ready for your questions and is a very kind and polite person.

She strives to teach everybody enough so they can pass her exam at the first attempt. No only does she want to teach stuff, she doesn't want to take s**t from you two years in a row.

Hard teacher. Hard to satisfy. But this is a tough world and we must be tough.

In an oral exam:

UVM: "What´s the melting point of Tungsten?"

Student: "Around 3000°C."

UVM: "That is not an answer. I want an exact number!"

Student:"3300°C?"

UVM:"NO! That´s not even close! It´s 3422°C!"

She was my Graduation Project counselor, somewhat equivalent to a tutor in Portugal. Now she is my Boss. She keeps forgetting what I´m doing, where I am or what my name is.

MEM: "I need you to go to Garching to replace the diagnostic operator for three weeks."

me: "Do I have a choice?"

MEM: "Actually... no."

**** One week later ****

by e-mail
MEM: "I need to talk to you immediately! Come down to my office."

by phone:
me:"But I´m in Germany. It´s cold and raining. I miss my girlfriend and all the bavarians are rude to me. I can´t go to your office."

MEM:"WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?"

me:"You sent me here, to replace the operator for three weeks."

MEM:"So that means you can´t go to Spain tomorrow?"

The former head of the Portuguese Nuclear Fusion Programme, he is now the President of <A HREF="http://www.iter.org/">ITER</A>´s Governing Board.

Makes ends meet in every project he's in, so I hope ITER to be a success, at least financially wise.

Most important, my teacher of several courses at the University, such as "Nuclear Fusion", "Project Management in Science" and "Experimental Physics VII".

He is the Chuck Norris of all things electromagnetic.
Teaches 90 minutes classes in 60.
Don´t try to outsmart him, he´ll Evil Stare you to death.
Once he taught only Electromagnetism. When he realized that the following course, Electrodynamics, was taught with a lax attitude by it´s professor he promptly took over. No one ever saw the other teacher since then

Only uses one variable to demonstrate Schrodinger's equation (momentum, potential AND operators). And does not make any mistake.

Can calculate the restaurant tab in under .03 seconds.

P.Sacramento: "So we´ll just start from the notion that every fermion has a half-integer spin and every boson has a integer spin."

Student: "But why´s that?"

P.Sacramento:"There is a demonstration to this. But I won´t do it here."

Student:"Why not?"

P.Sacramento:"Somethings are just not meant to do in public."

Likes to give his students hard problems and then runs away. If he was a lifesaver, he would stay on the shore and yell "Come on, you can do it! Swim harder!".

But if you are really desperate he'll help you (but he'll call you a sissy).

The "cool kid" in the Physics Department. Prefers talking to students more than actually teach.

Usually leaves a PhD. student lecturing his lab classes.

PhD. Student: "So, to figure out the average density of the plasma column, we just need to measure and compare the difference between the phase shift of the emitted wave and the reference wave, which traverses the same length but in vacuum."

We: "So if we add both output signals in a summation circuit we should get some kind of beat signal and it´s wavelength is proportional to the width of the plasma column."

PhD. Student "Yes, that is..."

************* DYNAMIC ENTRY *************

Horacio. "IT´S ALL WRONG! YOU SHOULD GO HOME!"

************* DYNAMIC EXIT *************

PhD. "Just ignore him. It´s what I do."

Likes to teach with visual aids, like lasers, crystals, strange materials and... well, that´s it in this course.

Cool teacher who loves to quote the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The quintessential lady´s man.

A gentleman striving to have fun without loosing pose.

His motto is: "TEACH HARD, PARTY HARD!"

Cold and collected, he sees symetries, invariances and groups where we only see nice colours.

"So, the colour-charge of the three valence quarks in a hadron is a SU(3) group while the three lightest quarks, up down and strange, also share a SU(3) symmetry. This is obvious. Any questions?"

"Which is the strange quark?"

"Ahh...", said the professor in despair," the heavier of the three lightest. The first second-generation quark."

"Huh?"

"The green one..."

"Oh! Ok..."