Highlights

CEFITEC welcomed Professors and PhD students from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), one of China's leading Universities and currently ranked 131^st in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026.

At the General Assembly of the Portuguese Vacuum Society (SOPORVAC), held on 16 March 2026, Professor Filipe Ferreira da Silva was elected President for the 2026–2028 term. In total, five integrated members of CEFITEC were elected to its governing bodies, reinforcing the unit's active contribution to the Portuguese vacuum science community.

The studyRevisiting CN⁻ Formation Mechanisms in Electron Collisions with Benzonitrile has been selected for the front cover of ChemPhysChem. The research work was first authored by Rodrigo Rodrigues, PhD student in the RaBBiT program at CEFITEC, and co-authored by the CEFITEC researchers Mónica Mendes, João Ameixa, and Filipe Ferreira da Silva.