Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2015)
University Park, PA, USA
M.S. in Space Geophysics (2011)
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
(National Institute for Space Research)
Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil
B.S. in Physics (2008)
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
(Federal University of Santa Maria)
Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Professional Experience
Associate Professor of Physics (Aug/2023 – Present)
Assistant Professor of Physics (Jan/2018 – Jul/2023)
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep/2015 – Dec/2017)
Hanover, NH, USA
Awards
National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences
EPSCoR Mentor Award (Aug/2021)
NSF NM EPSCoR
Young Scientist Award (Sep/2020)
International Radio Science Union (URSI)
Competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sep/2015)
Inaugural Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College
Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (Apr/2015)
Department of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists (Aug/2014)
For the paper entitled “Consequences of the application of the streamer fluid model to the study of the sprite inception mechanism”
Committee on Space Research – COSPAR
A. J. Ferraro Graduate Research Award (Apr/2014)
Awarded in recognition of excellence in Ph.D. research in the area of Space Sciences and Electromagnetics
Department of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
Outstanding Student Paper Award – OSPA (Dec/2013)
AGU Fall Meeting
American Geophysical Union – AGU
Honorable Mention in the OSPA Competition (Dec/2012)
AGU Fall Meeting
American Geophysical Union – AGU
Roberto Manzano Prize (Apr/2011)
Congress of the Latin American Association of Space Geophysics – IX COLAGE
Latin American Association of Space Geophysics – ALAGE