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¶

2025 - Pesquisadora Titular I, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
2024 - Associate Researcher, INL, Portugal.
(2023-2025) Principal Investigator, Minho University, Portugal.
(2015-2025) Associate Professor of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
(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¶

Raymond Valencia Master 2024/ "Orbital Polarization in Chiral Molecules", Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Rodrigo P. Câmara - Phd 2023/ "Topology in Photonics" Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal (co-supervisor)
Fabio Rangel – Master 2018/2020 “Electronic Properties of MoS2 Monolayers with Vacancies”
Luis Canonico (co-supervisor) – PhD 2017/2020 “Orbital and spin transport in two- dimensional systems”
Tarik Cysne – PhD 2015/2019 “Spin-orbit phenomena in 2D materials”
Luis Canonico (co-supervisor) – MS 2015/2017 “Revisiting the Quantum Hall effect in the Haldane Model”*PhD Pós-doc at INC2 - Barcelona
Jose Hugo Garcia – PhD 2011/2015 “The kernel polynomial method for quantum transport in disordered systems” researcher at ICN2 - Barcelona
Diego Oliver Daldoce Pereira – MS 2014/2015 “Spin-dependent electronic scattering in graphene” PhD student
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¶

International Conference on Magnetism ICM2024, Bologna, Italy (2024).
IEEE International Magnetic Conference (INTERMAG) 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024).
APS March Meeting 2024 (invited session), Minneapolis, USA (2024).
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¶

Editorial board - Physical Review Reseach 2025 -
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 - IOP- CMD 29 mini-coloquium: Orbitronics - Exploring the Power of Orbital Angular Momentum Manipulation, Braga, PT (Sep-2024).
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).

Outreach¶

One of the heads of Tem Menina no Circuito with weekly activities in two public high-schools in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro to motivate girls to get interested in STEM careers (2014-present)
One of the heads of Tem Criança no Circuito,where we organize Workshops in Museums and open spaces for kids age 6-up to engage the public with science activities. Since 2014 we organised more than 20 workshops on electric circuits in alternative medium such as paper and playdoh (2014-present)
Seminar for general audience at Ciência às Seis e meia, Museu do Amanhã - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019).
Online article about girls in science in one of the main brazilian newspaper O Globo (2019).
Online article about 2D materials in one of the main brazilian newspaper O Globo (2018).
Interview for the Youtube channel ”Quarta com Ciência”(2018).
Symposium “Girls in Science”- Brazilian Academy of Science, Rio de Janeiro (2018).
Invited speaker "Mulheres nas exatas” PUC-Rio-2018.
Round table of Women in Science @ High-School EDEM 2017
Café com Cientístas, Seminar for high-school students at ”Museu Ciência e Vida” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016).
Participation in the TV program Tome Ciência about graphene (2013).
Seminar for the series Convite à Física USP-São Paulo, Brazil (2012).
Seminar for general audience at 4o Encontro Anual do INCT de Nanomateriais de Carbono - Goiânia, Brazil (2012).
Plenary Speaker at Campus Party Brazil São Paulo, Brazil (2011).
Seminar for general audience at Ciência às Seis e meia, CBPF - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011).
Seminar for general audience at I Congresso de Engenharia e Tecnologia (CET) UFG - Goiânia, Brazil (2011).

Bio

Degrees¶

Affiliations¶

Prizes and Awards¶

Theses Supervised¶

Invited talks at international conferences¶

Recent Synergistic Activities¶

Outreach¶

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