Address

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Física, 

Av. Jorn. Aníbal Fernandes, s/n - Cidade Universitária, Recife - PE, 50740-540 

Telefone: (81) 2126-8450  

    Sala B 319 - DF  

      michael.cabrera@ufpe.br

     EDUCATION 

• PhD in Physics, February 2014 - February 2017

Thesis: Fundamental electronic and magnetic interactions in the cage compounds RT2Zn20 (R = Y, Gd,Yb, T = Fe, Co).

Scholarship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.

[https://bdtd.ibict.br/vufind/Record/UFBC_3f0a10fecaa2ac894c1acc8c0da490ca]

• MSc in Physics, February 2012 - January 2014

Thesis: Single crystal growth and characterization of the intermetallic systems YIn3 and FeGa3.

Scholarship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.

[https://bdtd.ibict.br/vufind/Record/UFBC_23d2ad0242409244210c5c881a2519f2]

• B.S. in Physics, August 2005 - December 2011

Thesis: Structure and conductivity fluctuations of the Y3Ba5Cu8O18

Scholarship: Fundación Bretano

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

POSITIONS

• Assistant Professor (Permanent) 

February 2019 – Present

Department of Physics

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

[https://www.ufpe.br/df/corpo-docente]

• Postdoctoral Fellow 

March. 2017 – January.2019

Title of the project: Study of the physical properties of nanostructured materials and fundamental interactions in bulk systems.

Scholarship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. 

[https://bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/170838/study-of-the-physical-properties-of-nanostructured-materials-and-fundamentalinteractions-in-bulk-sy/]

• Associated Researcher IFGW Thematic Project

May 01, 2018 - April 30, 2023

Title: Emergent phenomena in reduced dimension systems

Grant number: 17/10581-1 FAPESP

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. 

[https://bv.fapesp.br/pt/auxilios/99997/fenomenos-emergentes-em-sistemas-de-dimensoes-reduzidas/]

•  Associated Researcher INCT-CNPq

2023 - 2028

https://www.inctspinanomag.org/team-6/michael-cabrera-baez

• EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS

Single crystal growth

X-Ray diffractometry (XRD)

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

SQUID-VSM Magnetometer up to 9 Tesla

Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS) Quantum Design.

CW ESR spectrometer (4K – 300 K), X and Q bands. 

Management of cryogenic liquids.

• REFEREE OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

• RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences

• Current Nanoscience

• Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics

• Physical Review Letters

• Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter

• Journal of Low Temperature Physics

• Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

• Journal of Alloys and Compounds

• Modern Physics Letters B

• Open Chemistry

• Physical Review B

• Physical Review X Energy

• Nature Communications