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Benjamin Garcia de Figueiredo (Master student; 2020 -- )
(click for accessing CV) Benjamin has Bachelor in Physics from Universidade de São Paulo - São Carlos. For his Master's work he is, broadly speaking, interested in investigating the statistical mechanical description of biological interactions, establishing connections between local mechanisms and large scale behaviors and patterns. |
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Daniel Cardoso Pereira Jorge (Master student; 2021 --)
(click for accessing CV) Daniel has a Bachelor in Physics from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA, Brazil). His undergrad works are focused on studying disease transmission compartmental models. His Master's project focuses on investigating the mechanisms that drive the aggregation patterns of living organisms. He is interested in deterministic and stochastic models for investigating both individual and population scales. |
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Jesús M. Encinas (Postdoctoral Researcher; 2021 --)
(click for accessing CV) Jesus has a Bachelor in Physics from Universidad Mayor de San Andres (La Paz-Bolivia), a Master in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Paraná-Brazil), and a Ph.D. in Physics from Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo-Brazil). His areas of interest are complex systems and statistical mechanics. In graduate stage he accomplished some research about the parliamentary presence of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies through concepts of anomalous diffusion and techniques of statistical modeling, he also investigated, using mean-field and stochastic methods, general aspects of nonequilibrium phase transitions in systems with inversion symmetry in both regular and complex networks. His postdoctoral research focuses on developing simple models for complex microbial behaviors. |
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João Pedro Valeriano Miranda (Master Student; 2021 --)
(click for accessing CV) João has a Bachelor in Physics from Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. His Master’s project focuses on better understanding how a chaotic environmental flow shapes the evolution of social behaviors of a microbial population. Besides that, he is interested in the statistical inference problems of parameter estimation and model selection, mainly for compartmental epidemic models. |
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Pablo de Castro (Postdoctoral Researcher; 2022 --)
(personal website) Pablo has a Bachelor and a Master's in Physics from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) and a PhD in Physics from the Department of Mathematics at King's College London (United Kingdom). During his Master's, Pablo investigated the nonlinear dynamics of spinning rigid bodies subject to orbital forcing and friction. In his PhD, Pablo worked on multiple problems regarding the phase separation of fluid mixtures, such as the formation of organelles inside the cell. During a postdoctoral period at Universidad de Chile, Pablo applied his expertise to study active fluid mixtures like bacterial colonies undergoing motility-induced phase separation. The central question of Pablo's work is how "diversity" or "polydispersity" in some particle attribute leads to novel pattern formation phenomena in biologically-inspired particle systems such as collections of proteins, microorganisms and animals. |
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Rafael Menezes (PhD Student; 2021 -- )
(personal website) Rafael has a Bachelor and Master in Physics from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA, Brazil). His master research focused on understanding the interplay of structure and dynamics of complex ecological communities through the generalized Lotka-Volterra model. He is most interested in unraveling the complexities of nature with the aid of mathematical models, computational simulations, and interdisciplinary inquiry. Currently, he is focused on understanding how the stability and coexistence of large communities are influenced by interaction, movement, and environment. |
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Vivian Dornelas (Postdoctoral Researcher; 2020 --)
(click for accessing CV) Vivian has a Bachelor in Physics from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF, Brazil), and a Master and Ph.D. in Physics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil). Her master research focused on modeling opinion dynamics in complex networks. For her Ph.D. studies she switched topics and worked on pattern formation in biological systems, both in homogeneous and heterogeneous landscapes, applying techniques of non-linear dynamical systems. Her research interests include topics in complex systems with application to biological problems, such as population dynamics and pattern formation. |
Alumni
- Jairo M. Rojas Huamaní (Master student; 2019 -2020).
- Gabriel Andreguetto Maciel (Postdoctoral Researcher; 2020 - 2022).
