Nuno Loureiro

Nuno Loureiro
Nuno Loureiro
	Loureiro teaching at MIT in 2023
Born	Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro; 1977; Viseu, Portugal
Died	16 December 2025 (aged 47); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Cause of death	Gunshot wounds
Education	Instituto Superior Técnico (BS, MEng) ; Imperial College London (PhD)
Children	3
Awards	Presidential Early Career Award (2025)
	Scientific career
Fields	Magnetic reconnection; nuclear fusion; MHD turbulence;
Institutions	Instituto Superior Técnico; Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; Culham Centre for Fusion Energy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Studies of nonlinear tearing mode reconnection (2005)
Website	nse.mit.edu/people/nuno-f-loureiro/

Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro (1977 – 16 December 2025) 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.

On 15 December 2025, Loureiro was shot at his residence in Brookline, Massachusetts, and died from his injuries the following day. Authorities connected his murder to Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, who was the perpetrator of the shooting at Brown University that occurred two days prior to Loureiro's murder.