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Bio

Degrees

  • PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal Fluminense (2003)

  • Short-range antiferromagnetic correlations in Kondo insulators
    Thesis Advisor: Mucio A. Continentino

  • MS in Physics, Universidade Federal Fluminense (1999)

    • Disorder in a model for Heavy Fermions
      Thesis Advisor: Mucio A. Continentino

  • BS in Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1997)

Affiliations

  • (2023-) Principal Investigator, Minho University, Portugal.
  • (2015-) Associate Professor of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (unpaid leave of absence since 2019).
  • (2020-2023) Researcher, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal.

  • (2019-2020) Researcher, Minho University - Portugal

  • (2007-2015) Assistant Professor of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Research Associate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Research Assistant, University of Notre Dame, USA

Prizes and Awards

  • 2022 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science - Science Outreach category (as "Tem menina no circuito")
  • 2015-2018 Newton Advanced Fellowship, Newton Fund and Royal Society - UK
  • 2008-2019 Researcher Level 2 - Brazilian Research Council (CNPq)
  • 2007 L’Oreal Unesco Fellowship for Women in Science (Brazil)
  • 2008-2013 Junior Associate at ICTP-Trieste

Theses Supervised

  1. Fabio Rangel – Master 2018/2020 “Electronic Properties of MoS2 Monolayers with Vacancies”
  2. Luis Canonico (co-supervisor) – PhD 2017/2020 “Orbital and spin transport in two- dimensional systems”
  3. Tarik Cysne – PhD 2015/2019 “Spin-orbit phenomena in 2D materials”
  4. Luis Canonico (co-supervisor) – MS 2015/2017 “Revisiting the Quantum Hall effect in the Haldane Model”*PhD Pós-doc at INC2 - Barcelona
  5. Jose Hugo Garcia – PhD 2011/2015 “The kernel polynomial method for quantum transport in disordered systems” researcher at ICN2 - Barcelona
  6. Diego Oliver Daldoce Pereira – MS 2014/2015 “Spin-dependent electronic scattering in graphene” PhD student
  7. Tiago Siman Machado(co-supervisor) – PhD 2008/2011 “Magnetism and magnotransport in nanostructures”*director- CEFET/RJ Angra dos Reis

* Undergraduate research supervision: Guilherme Bastos Travassos, Cinthya Langue Blois, Rubem Raphael Caetano , Cristiana Lopes Lara , Diego Oliver Daldoce Pereira, Rogério Caldas Pinto Ferreira, Alexandre Bacellar.

Invited talks at international conferences

  • Orbital currents, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
  • Korean Magnetics Society Meeting, Busan, South Korea (2023).
  • 2023 Orbitronics Workshop, Daejon, South Korea (2023).
  • Escola Brasileira de Estrutura Eletrônica, Campinas, Brazil - short course (2023).
  • Encontro de Outono, Sociedade Brasileira de Física, Ouro Preto, Brazil (2023).
  • ICTP Conference and Advanced School on Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems, Santiago, Chile (2023).
  • SPIN Argentina 2022, Bariloche, Argentina (2022).
  • ICQMT2022, Bodrum, Turkey (2022).
  • 95th IUVSTA Workshop, Guimarães, Portugal (2022).
  • Topological quantum matter: foundations and applications, On-line Workshop (2022).
  • Graphene 2021, Grenoble, France (2021).
  • SPICE workshop: 2D van der Waals Spin Systems, On-line Workshop (2020).
  • Francqui Mini-Symposium Computational and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Namur, Belgium (2019).
  • International Conference on Quantum Science and Technology, Braga, Portugal (2019).
  • Dirac Fermions and Relativistic Effects in 2D Materials, Regensburg, Germany (2018).
  • Autumn Meeting Brazilian Physical Society, Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil (2018).
  • Workshop on Recent Progress in Spintronics of 2D Materials, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2016).
  • Workshop on Next Generation Quantum Materials, São Paulo, Brazil (2016).
  • CAP Congress 2015, Edmonton, Canada (2015).
  • Spin Orbit Coupling and Topology in Low Dimensions, Spetses, Greece (2015).
  • March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, USA (2015).
  • Indo-Brazil Discussion meeting in Graphene and Nanotubes, Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil (2011).
  • Spintronics in graphene - Singapore (2011).
  • Graphene Brazil - Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2010).
  • Nano 2008 - 9th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials - Rio de Janeiro (2008).
  • I2CAM-FAPERJ New phenomena in Highly Correlated Quantum Matter - Rio de Janeiro (2008).
  • 13th Brazilian Workshop on Semiconductor Physics, São Paulo, Brazil (2007).
  • KITP program on Spintronics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA (2006).
  • II Workshop of Multifunctional Materials, Huatulco, México (2004).

Recent Synergistic Activities

  • Part of the team that developed KITE - open-source software - quantum transport calculations.
  • Editorial Board - Europhysics Letters 2020-2023
  • Executive Editorial Board - Solid State Communications 2020-2023
  • Magnonics 2023 - Scientific Commitee.
  • Organizer - SPICE conference ”Orbitronics: from Topological Matter to next Level Electronics” (July-2022).
  • Organizer-IOP-CMD29 online series: Real-space simulations of topological matter and disordered materials(October- 2021)
  • Referee of Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Nature, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, 2D materials
  • Member of the National Institute of Science and Technology - Carbon Nanostructure (Brazil)
  • PI of the project for the Special Visitor program of Science without Borders - Professor Nuno Peres, 400734/2014-1 (2014-2016).

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