Name: Rui Aquino dos Santos da Silva
Date of birth: January 19, 1996
Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Professional address: Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz 271, Bloco 2 - Barra Funda - 01140-070 São Paulo, SP Brazil.
E-mail: ruiaquino96@gmail.com / ruiaquino@ictp-saifr.org
Education
Ph.D. in Physics - State University of Rio de Janeiro, 2020 - 2023
Advisor: Dr. Daniel G. Barci
Visitor Student - University of Minnesota, USA, 2023 - 2023.
Supervisor: Dr. Rafael M. Fernandes
Thesis Title: Exceptional Points in Fermi liquids with multipolar interactions
M.Sc. in Physics - State University of Rio de Janeiro, 2018 - 2020
Advisor: Dr. Daniel G. Barci
Thesis Title: Dynamics of Fermi Liquids with density-density and quadrupolar interactions
B.S. in Physics - State University of Rio de Janeiro, 2014 - 2018
Advisor: Dr. Daniel G. Barci
Thesis Title: The Landau Theory of Fermi Liquids
Awards
“Nota 10” PhD Fellowship: awarded for academic distinction to senior PhD students, FAPERJ, 2022 – today.
Mentoring
Co-supervision of scientific initiation student Iury Martins, State University of Rio de Janeiro.
Supervision together with Daniel G. Barci. 2021 – 2022.
Co-supervision of Master thesis of Guilherme Rafael Ferreira dos Santos, State University of Rio de
Janeiro. Supervision together with Daniel G. Barci. In progress.
Organization of Events
Minicourse on disorder and dynamics in strongly correlated materials - November 2024 (ICTP-SAIFR)
Fourth UERJ's Graduate School of Physics - January/February 2022 (UERJ)
'4ª Escola do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física da UERJ', or, 'Fourth UERJ's Graduate School of Physics' consists of a week with Seminars, courses, and academic activities for the graduate students of UERJ and Rio de Janeiro's academic community.
In the Press
I've been selected by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences to participate in a Q & A with Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize laureate in physics 2012, in the online discussion ‘The Value of Science’, a session that was a prelude to the Nobel Prize Dialogue Brazil 2022. Click here for more information;