Curriculum Vitae
Computational materials scientist specialising in ab initio simulations and machine learning for atomistic modelling, with research centred on 2D materials and energy systems. Over ten years of research experience, nine years of university teaching, and more than thirty publications in journals including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters and Physical Review Letters.
Appointments
Visiting Research Fellow
Ilum – School of Science, CNPEM
Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials. Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Visiting Research Fellow
Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT), UNESP
State University of São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Assistant Professor Doctor
School of Engineering, Mackenzie Presbyterian University (UPM)
São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Research Fellow
Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM), National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore.
Research Assistant
Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Troy, NY, USA.
Education
Ph.D. in Physics
University of São Paulo (USP)
Thesis: “Electronic Structure of Topological Insulators in Two and Three Dimensions”. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adalberto Fazzio. São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
M.Sc. in Physics
Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
Thesis: “A study on Little Higgs models: The simplest model and its scalar singlet”. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Alex Gomes Dias. Santo André, SP, Brazil.
B.Sc. in Physics
Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)
Project: “A quantum mechanical approach to neutrino oscillations”. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Carlos Antônio de Sousa Pires. João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
Teaching
Courses taught across undergraduate and graduate programmes. Course material for some of them is published in the seixas-teaching organisation.
Undergraduate
- Structure of Matter — 6×
- Photonic, Electrical, and Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterials — 4×
- Computer Science, Algorithms and Programming I — 4×
- Programming Language I — 2×
- Thermodynamics — 2×
- Quantum Mechanics — 1×
- Biological Applications of Nanomaterials — 1×
- Nanomaterials — 1×
Graduate
- Solid State Thermodynamics — 6×
- Solid State Physics — 1×
Course material
- Métodos baseados em árvores — decision trees, random forests and gradient boosting, for classification and regression, as worked notebooks.
- Regressão simbólica — symbolic regression.
- SIESTA tutorials — hands-on introduction to ab initio calculations with SIESTA.
Skills & Tools
Physics & Methods
Simulation Software
Programming
Machine Learning
Grants & Funding
FAPESP
2D Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, Theory, and Devices
Thematic Project Grant · Grant 23/13081-0 · Coordinator: Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz
CNPqCoordinator
High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Applications
Research Productivity Scholarship, PQ-2 · Grant 308928/2023-7
FAPESPCoordinator
Intelligible High-Entropy Materials: Developing Models, Data and Applications
Regular Research Grant · Grant 22/14549-3
CNPq
INCT Materials Informatics
National Institute for Science and Technology · Grant 406447/2022-5 · Coordinator: Adalberto Fazzio
MackPesquisaCoordinator
2D Piezoelectric Materials for Mechanical Nanosensors
Research Grant · Grant 221018
CNPqCoordinator
Complex 2D Materials for Energy Storage Applications
Research Productivity Scholarship, PQ-2 · Grant 311324/2020-7
CNPqCoordinator
Discovery and Design of 2D Piezoelectric Materials: A First-Principles Perspective
Universal Project Grant · Grant 408525/2018-5
CNPqCoordinator
Electronic structure of 2D materials for energy applications
Research Productivity Scholarship, PQ-2 · Grant 306422/2017-4
Talks
Invited
II ICTP-SAIFR Condensed Matter Theory in the Metropolis
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
XXXV Encontro de Físicos do Norte e Nordeste
Online
Invited
ICTP-SAIFR Condensed Matter Theory in the Metropolis
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
APS March Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Graphene 2017
Barcelona, Spain
Invited
XV Brazilian MRS Meeting
Campinas, SP, Brazil
Supervision
Postdoctoral researchers
- Regiane do Nascimento
- Letícia Santos Braga
- Raphael Matozo Tromer
Master's students
- Felipe Conceição dos Santos
- Rafael Oliveira de Figueiredo
- Victor Lima Sobottka
Undergraduate research projects
- Armando Sampaio de Rezende Neto
- Jonathas Costa da Silva
Undergraduate final course projects
- Armando Sampaio de Rezende Neto
- Rafaela Zalli Cibella
- Cesar Lembo Barriviera
- Aprys Cristina Travassos Sarinho dos Santos Oliveira
- Nathalia do Nascimento Hernandes
- André Ventura Piaggio dos Santos
- Patrícia Domingos Bracaldi
- Bruno Basile Storte
Languages
Looking for the full research record? Papers, preprints and collaborations live on the publications page. The software is on the portfolio page.