About

Hi, 
  • ​I'm a physicist and I work in astrophysics, cosmology and gravitation.
  • I'm an associate (permanent) professor at the Physics Department of UFES, Brazil.
  • I'm member of the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology (Cosmo-Ufes).
  • I advise postgrad students in two postgraduate programs that we have here: PPGCosmo and PPGFis.
  • I'm member of the Sci-Com computational laboratory of Ufes.
  • Currently, I'm the vice-coordinator of PPGCosmo and I was the coordinator of PPGFis (2017-2019). 
  • I'm in charge of the Wolfram Mathematica license for Ufes since 2021.

Positions and affiliations
  • Associate Professor (permanent) at UFES (ES, Brazil) (2018- )
  • Visiting Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany (2023-2024)
  • Einstein Telescope member (2023 - )
  • "Professor Adjunto" (permanent) at UFES (ES, Brazil) (2010 - 2018)
  • Postdoc at Unicamp (SP, Brazil) (2009-2010)
  • Postdoc at Usach & PUC-Chile (RM, Chile) (2007-2008)
  • Ph.D. on Physics from UFRJ (RJ, Brazil) (2006)
  • B.S. & M.S. on Physics from UFJF (MG, Brazil) (2001 & 2002)
  • Member of the Brazilian Physics Society  (SBF) (2001 - )
  • Member of the Brazilian Astronomy Society (SAB) (2013 - )

Research interests
  • Testing general relativity and its extensions
  • dark matter
  • galaxies 
  • gravitational waves
  • cosmology
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Inside the main campus of UFES.

Work activities

  • Research in astrophysics, cosmology and gravitation.
  • Advising undergrad and grad students (DFis, PPGCosmo and PPGFis). 
  • Teaching undergrad and grad students (DFis, PPGCosmo and PPGFis). 
  • Science communications.
  • Manager of the Wolfram Mathematica at UFES. All UFES members have access, see here for the instructions.
  • And other administrative duties.


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