About me

I started as an Ambizione fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institute on April 2020. You can find information about my current research in the here.

Between 2018 and 2020 I had a superposition of wonderful positions. I was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. I was also a junior group leader at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (Instituto de Física Teórica) at the State University in São Paulo, which includes the ICTP-SAIFR (International Institute for Theoretical Physics - South American Institute for Fundamental Research). I believe this the best place to do physics in Brazil, with great international visibility. During my stay I had the opportunity to participate in multiple outreach activities.

From 2015 to 2018 I was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH, in Zürich, Switzerland. There I had the opportunity to take my research to new directions. I started new collaborations and engaged in teaching advanced courses at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at ETH. I also organised the QSIT Women Networking! meetings, monthly gatherings for women in the area of Quantum Science and Technology in Switzerland, in collaboration with Chiara Decaroli.

From 2010 to 2015 I was a PhD student at Rutgers University, where I had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant, to organize student seminars and condensed matter journal clubs, and to participate in the Pre-Doctoral Leadership program, a unique program offered at Rutgers! It was a pleasure to spend those years in a very lively Physics Department, with a very strong and diverse condensed matter theory group. I was under the mentorship of Prof. Piers Coleman.

Before that I lived to Rio de Janeiro, one of the most beautiful places in Brazil, where I got my master's degree in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Mucio Amado Continentino. My dissertation focused on quantum criticality in multi-band superconductors. During that year I commuted between the Fluminense Federal University (Universidade Federal Fluminense) and the Brasilian Centre for Research in Physics (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas), learning a lot from people in both places!

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I got my bachelor's degree in Physics at the São Carlos Federal University (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) in 2009. During that time, I had the opportunity to work in two very distinct undergraduate projects. The first project was a collaboration with the Physiotherapy Department, and my role was to extract meaningful quantitative information from electrocardiogram signals! The second project was developed in the superconductivity and magnetism laboratory, where I learned how to make high-Tc superconductors and measure their properties. I think I am one of the few theorists that can claim "I made my own high-Tc superconductor from scratch"!