MIT聚变中心主任Loureiro在Brookline住所遭枪击，次日凌晨不治身亡
位于马萨诸塞州 Middlesex 县 Cambridge 市的麻省理工学院12月16日宣布，该校等离子体科学与聚变中心主任、物理学与核科学与工程教授 Nuno F. G. Loureiro 于当天凌晨因枪伤不治逝世，终年47岁。他前一晚在马萨诸塞州 Norfolk 县 Brookline 市 Gibbs 街住所所在楼宇的门厅遭到枪击，被送往医院后于16日清晨被宣布死亡。
麻省理工学院校长 Sally Kornbluth 在致全校师生的信中写道，她怀着极大的悲痛通报这一悲剧消息：等离子体科学与聚变中心主任 Loureiro 教授当天清晨逝世，死于数小时前所受的枪伤。Norfolk 县地区检察官办公室表示，州警探员已奉派协助 Brookline 警方调查，此案正按凶杀案积极调查，截至16日尚无人被捕，更多信息暂不公布。
Loureiro 1977年生于葡萄牙，在里斯本与伦敦求学，曾在普林斯顿等离子体物理实验室等地工作，2016年加入麻省理工学院任教。他的研究涵盖磁化等离子体动力学、磁重联以及聚变等离子体的约束与输运，加深了学界对等离子体湍流的理解，也揭示了太阳耀斑等天文现象背后的物理机制，并为聚变装置的设计提供参考。他2022年出任该中心副主任，2024年5月升任主任，同时是该校 Herman Feshbach（1942）讲席教授。
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MIT Fusion Center Director Loureiro Dies After Being Shot at His Brookline Home
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, announced on December 16 that Nuno F. G. Loureiro, director of its Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of physics and of nuclear science and engineering, had died early that morning from gunshot wounds, at the age of 47. He had been shot the previous evening in the foyer of his apartment building on Gibbs Street in Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and was pronounced dead early on December 16 after being taken to a hospital.
In a letter to the MIT community, President Sally Kornbluth wrote that she shared the tragic news with great sadness: Professor Loureiro, the director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, had died early that morning from gunshot wounds he sustained a few hours before. The Norfolk County District Attorney's Office said Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the office were assisting Brookline police, that the case was being treated as an active and ongoing homicide investigation, and that no one was in custody as of December 16, with no further information being released at that time.
Born in Portugal in 1977, Loureiro studied in Lisbon and London and worked at institutions including the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory before joining MIT's faculty in 2016. His research addressed magnetized plasma dynamics, magnetic reconnection, and confinement and transport in fusion plasmas, advancing scientists' understanding of plasma turbulence, uncovering the physics behind astronomical phenomena such as solar flares, and helping inform the design of fusion devices. He became the center's deputy director in 2022 and its director in May 2024, and held the Herman Feshbach (1942) Professorship of Physics.
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