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. |
Gabriel Andreguetto Maciel (Postdoctoral Researcher; 2020 --)
(click for accessing CV) Gabriel has a Bachelor in physics from Universidade Federal de Paraná (Brazil) and a Master and PhD in Physics from the Instituto de Física Teórica (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Since his masters, his research has focused on population ecology. In particular, he is interested on several aspects of population dynamics in space. One of the main questions he has been trying to answer is how movement behavior in heterogeneous space affects populations persistence and spread. Reaction-diffusion models have been his main investigation tool. |
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. |

Juliana Pirolla (Undergraduate Student; 2020 --)
Juliana is a physics undergraduate student at Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar with research interests focused on theoretical physics, complex systems and mathematical biology.
Juliana is a physics undergraduate student at Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar with research interests focused on theoretical physics, complex systems and mathematical biology.
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. |
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).