Educational background:
Pos-doc: Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of California at Los Angeles – UCLA, USA, Supervisor: W. G. Clark (1987-1988)
PhD in Physics: Low Temperature Heat Capacity of the Quasicrystalline Icosahedral Al80Mn20 and Decagonal Al78Mn22 Alloys, These Advisor: William Gilbert Clark, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, USA (1984-1987).
MSc in Physics: Department of Physics, Supervisor: Sukekatsuo Ushioda, University of California at Irvine, UCI, USA (1982-1984).
MSc in Physics: Brillouin light scattering by magnons in YIG and by phonons in Fe1-xZnxF2, Dissertation Advisor: Sergio Machado Rezende, Department of Physics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (1979-1981).
BSc. in Physics: Department of Physics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (1975-1978).
Professional Experience:
Professor of Physics, Graduate Program in Physics, UFPE, since 1989.
Professor of Physics, Graduate Program in Material Science, UFPE, since 1989.
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UFPE, 12/1989 – 05/2020.
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, UFPE, 03/1989-12/1989.
Consult in Science and Technology, Institute of Technology of Pernambuco – ITEP, 12/1988-03/1989.
Associate Professor MS-3, Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin, UNICAMP, 09/1988-02/1989.
Adjunct Assistance Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, 08/1987-08/1988.
Other technical occupations:
Guest Editor for the Special Topic of Giant Magneto-Impedance Effect, Frontier in Physics, since 10/2022.
Special Advisor for Popularization of Science, Pernambuco State Science Museum, 01/2022 – 01/2023.
Member of the Director Board of the Pernambuco Science Academy, 07/2021 – 09/2023.
Member of the C9 Commission (Magnetism), International Union for Pure and Applied Physics – IUPAP, 01/2018-12/2020.
Guest Editor for the 16th International Conference on Molecule-based Magnets – ICMM2018, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2018.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Heliyon, Elsevier, 2015-2018.
Head of the Graduate Program in Physics, UFPE, 04/2014-03/2016.
General Manager for S&T&I, Secretary of Science and Technology of Pernambuco, 02/2011-02/2013.
General Director for the Graduate Programs, UFPE, 02/2007-01/2011.
General Coordinator of the Scientific Initiation Program, UFPE, 10/2006-02/2007.
Scientific Director, Pernambuco State Funding Agency – FACEPE, 11/2003-10/2006.
Adjunct Secretary of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science – SBPC at Pernambuco, 06/2002 – 04-2004.
Head of the Graduate Program in Material Science, UFPE, 11/2001-10/2003.
Chair of the Physics Department, UFPE, 10/1998-09/2000
General Coordinator for the Science and Engineering students, UFPE, 06/1996-05/1998.
Vice-Coordinator of the undergraduate course in physics, UFPE, 08/1990-07/1992