Research Lines

I. Atomic and Molecular Physics

Topics:
  • Eletronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules;
  • Interaction of Photons and Electrons with Atoms and Molecules;
  • Molecular Nanostructures;
  • Potential Energy a Surfaces and Molecule Nucleus Dynamics.
Professor:
 
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes
  • Frederico Vasconcellos Prudente
  • Ricardo dos Reis Teixeira Marinho
  • Roberto Rivelino de Melo Moreno

II. Statistical Physics and Complex Systems 

Topics:
 
  • Models of Classical and Quantum Systems
  • Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics
  • Graphs and Complex Networks
  • Methods and Applications of Complex Systems
  • Soft Matter
Professor:
 
  • Caio Porto de Castro
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes
  • Ernesto Pinheiro Borges
  • José Garcia Vivas Miranda
  • Julien Chopin
  • Massimo Ostilli
  • Raphael Silva do Rosário
  • Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade
  • Suani Tavares Rubim de Pinho
  • Thiago  Albuquerque de Assis

III. Physics of Solids and Materials

Topics:
  • Application of Oxides and Semicond;
  • Optical, Thermal, Morphological, Conductive, Magnetic and Structural Properties of Materials;
Professor:
  • Antônio Ferreira da Silva
  • Elie Albert Moujaess
  • Eliel Gomes da Silva Neto
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes
  • Iuri Muniz Pepe
  • Marcus Vinicius Santos da Silva

IV. Surface and Nanomaterials Physics

Topics:
 
  • Electron Emission by Electrostatic Field Effect
  • Scattering of Low-Energy Electrons
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
  • Surface Growth Under Out-of-Equilibrium Conditions
  • Electronic and Thermal Transport in Low-Dimensional Materials
 
Professor:
  • Caio Porto de Castro
  • Eliel Gomes da Silva Neto
  • Roberto Rivelino de Melo Moreno
  • Thiago Albuquerque de Assis

V. Particle and Field Physics

Topics:
 
  • Non-Relativistic Field Theory and Galilean Covariance
  • Gauge Theories, Symmetries, Low-Dimensional Gravity, and Quantum Gravity
  • Hadron Physics: Study of Conventional and Exotic Hadrons
  • Phenomenology of Particle Physics
  • Application of Effective Field Theories to the Study of Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model
 
Professor:
  • Arturo Rodolfo Samana 
  • Carlos Enrique Valcarcel Flores
  • Eduardo da Silva Almeida
  • Luciano Melo Abreu

VI. Gravitation and Cosmology

Topics:
 
  • Alternative Cosmological Models to the Standard Scenario
  • Observational Cosmological Tests
  • Large-Scale Structure Formation
  • Application of Machine Learning to Cosmological/Astrophysical Problems
  • Quantum Gravity
 
Professor:
  • Cassio Bruno Magalhães Pigozzo
  • Humberto de Almeida Borges
  • Rodrigo Fernando Lugon Cornejo Von Marttens
  • Saulo Carneiro de Souza Silva

 

VII. Applied Physics

Topics:
 
  • Biomotricity
  • Dynamics and Control of Communicable Diseases and Neoplasms
  • Dynamics of Ecological and Evolutionary Models
  • Applied Instrumentation
  • Characterization Methods in Photovoltaic Systems
  • Neurophysics
  • Mechanics of Solids, Interfaces, and Films
 
Professor:
  • Iuri Muniz Pepe
  • José Garcia Vivas Miranda
  • Julien Chopin
  • Marcus Vinícius Santos da Silva
  • Raphael Silva do Rosário
  • Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade.
  • Suani Tavares Rubim de Pinho
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