Main awards
- Best Manuscript Award for Young Researchers (IBA 2015), attributed to the best manuscript of the Ion beam analysis conference (IBA 2015) sponsored by Elsevier BV (D. J. Silva, U. Wahl, J. G. Correia, V. Augustyns, T. A. L. Lima, A. Costa, E. Bosne, M. R. da Silva, J. P. Araújo, and L. M. C. Pereira 'Drawing the geometry of 3d transition metal-boron pairs in silicon from electron emission channeling experiment')
- Corbett award 2013, attributed to one outstanding young researcher at the 27th international conference on defects in semiconductors (ICDS 27)
Other awards
- Praise by the Parish council of Abragao (Penafiel) at its 15th anniversary, for the performed works in research
- Best poster presentation at the 1st international conference on materials design and applications (MDA 2016), (J. B. Puga , B. D. Bordalo, D. J. Silva, M. M. Dias, J. H. Belo, J. P. Araújo, A. M. Pereira, J. Ventura, J. C. R. E. Oliveira; Novel magnetically actuated thermal switches)
- Praise by the 'assembleia municipal de Penafiel' in 2015, for the international awards
- runner up in the 'Young Researcher for Best Manuscript Competition' (IBA 2013), attributed to the second best manuscript of the Ion beam analysis conference (IBA 2013) sponsored by Elsevier BV (L.M.C. Pereira, U. Wahl, J.G. Correia, L.M. Amorim, D.J. Silva, S. Decoster, M.R. da Silva, J.P. Araújo, K. Temst, A. Vantomme: 'Emission channeling studies on a challenging case of impurity lattice location: cation versus anion substitution in transition-metal doped GaN and ZnO')
- Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the 17th International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI 2013), L.M. Amorim, U. Wahl, S. Decoster, L.M.C. Pereira, J.G. Correia, D.J. Silva, K. Temst, and A. Vantomme: 'Lattice sites of Mg in the group-III nitrides'