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Authorities are searching for a suspect in the murder of Nuno FG Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot near his home. boston47 year old professor portugal He was shot on Monday night and died at a local hospital on Tuesday.
Authorities have not provided any details about a possible motive or any other details of the killing. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said no suspects were in custody as of Wednesday morning.
The shooting in Brookline, Massachusetts, came just days after a deadly shooting at another prestigious school in the area. brown universityWhere the police is searching for the gunman who killed two students and injured nine others. FBI Says he knows of no connection between the crimes.
Finding solutions to world problems
loureiro joins with In 2016 and last year he was named to lead the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aims to advance clean energy technology and other research. One of the school’s largest laboratories, the center had more than 250 people working in seven buildings when he took over.
According to MIT, Loureiro, who is married, grew up in Viseu in central Portugal and studied in Lisbon before earning her doctorate in London. It says that before joining MIT he was a researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Fusion in Lisbon. He studied the behavior of plasma and worked to uncover the physics behind astronomical phenomena such as solar flares. According to his obituary in MIT News, his work “involved the design of fusion devices that could harness the energy of fusing plasma, bringing the dream of clean, nearly-limitless fusion power closer to reality.”
“It is not an exaggeration to say that MIT is the place you go to find solutions to humanity’s biggest problems,” Loureiro said when he was named to lead the Plasma Science Laboratory last year. “Fusion energy will change the course of human history.”
Sadness and shock over Loureiro’s death
Dennis White, an engineering professor who leads MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, told a campus publication, “He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader and was universally admired for his frank, compassionate manner.”
Dipto Chakraborty, the William A.M. Burden Professor in Astrophysics and head of the Physics Department, described him as “a champion for plasma physics within the Physics Department, a wonderful and engaging colleague, and an inspiring and caring mentor to graduate students working in plasma science.”
“The shocking loss to our community comes amid a spate of disturbing violence in many other places,” said MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
The Portuguese president’s office also issued a statement of condolence on Tuesday, calling his death “an irreparable loss to science and to all the people with whom he worked and lived.”
Murder comes to light amid search for Brown shooting suspect
The investigation into the MIT professor’s murder comes as Brown University, just 50 miles (80 kilometers) away in Providence, Rhode Island, is still recovering from Saturday’s fatal shooting. As the search for the Brown University shooter entered its fifth day Wednesday, officials were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in hopes it could help investigators identify the suspect, assuming he may have committed the crime prematurely.