Hello, my name is Francisco and I am currently a graduate student at UC Berkeley in Prof. Yao Group.

Born and raised in Coimbra, Portugal, I did my undergraduate partly at the University of Coimbra and partly at MIT.

I've been in the US since 2013.

Besides Physics, I like Computer Science and Mathematics. I also have a soft spot for Economics and Politics, basically understanding what makes the world tick.

Recent pre-prints and published works:

• Francisco Machado, Gregory D. Meyer, Dominic Else, Chetan Nayak, Norman Y. Yao, Exponentially Slow Heating in Short and Long-range Interacting Floquet Systems arXiv:1708.01620
• Francisco Machado, Nicholas Rivera, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić, Ido Kaminer. Shaping Polaritons to Reshape Selection Rules. arXiv:1610.01668