# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nuno-loureiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:17:05.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nuno-loureiro"
name: "Nuno Loureiro"
slug: "nuno-loureiro"
description: "Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was a Portuguese plasma physicist. He was the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 2024 until his murder in 2025."
tagline: "Portuguese plasma physicist (1977–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nuno_Loureiro_teaching_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
deathDate: "2025-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  221
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nuno-loureiro-6b2baa262"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/loureiro.html"
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    title: "نونو لوريرو"
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    title: "نونو لوریرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nuno Loureiro"
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    title: "Nuno Loureiro"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump