My alma matter is the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) where I got my B.Sc, M.Sc, and D.Sc. in Physics under the supervision of Prof. Thereza Paiva.
I started with a temporary position as a Substitute Professor in UFRJ for two years during my PhD. For another two years (in total), I (online) tutored students at the Open University of Brazil.
In my Physics research career, I started my Post-doc with Prof. Marcos Rigol at Georgetown University, investigating superfluid to Mott insulator transitions in optical lattices. Then, I moved to UC-Davis, California with Prof. Richard Scalettar where I investigated the properties of interfaces between metal and insulators. Finally, I moved back to work at Penn State for a final postdoc stint with Prof. Marcos Rigol where I investigate the out-of-equilibrium Physics in optical lattices. In most of the projects I am involved strong numerical analysis is required using different techniques. Recently I have been collaborating with experimentalists by proposing problems that can be tackled with quantum analog computers, with the hope to surpass the computational power of classical schemes.
Currently, I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Houston since April 2024. Before that, I had a tenure-track faculty (Assistant Professor) at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center from January 2019 to March 2024. Previously, I was a Research Assistant Professor at the same institution, from January 2016 to December 2018.
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems in and out-of-equilibrium. The specific list of interests encompasses Magnetic Multilayers, Transport Properties in Many-Body Systems, Disorder in Graphene, Superconductivity in Cuprates, Thermalization and Many-Body Localization. My Research can be summarized as being a theoretical investigation in many-body systems supported by numerical simulations. The techniques range from large-scale Exact Diagonalization to Quantum Monte Carlo (either for finite or zero temperature).
Beyond academia, I enjoy traveling and learning new cultures. Currently, I am poking around Chinese/Mandarin.