ABOUT ME
I was born in Vitória, a tiny island in Brazil, where I did my Bachelor's in Physics. My Master thesis was about 'loop quantisation' of topological theories, specially, 2+1 dimensional gravity and Chern-Simons. My background in loops led me to learn and work on the topic started by Luiz A. Ferreira in 1997 on the generalisation of integrability methods beyond 1+1 dimensions using the loop space; the outcome of that is our description of gauge theories in loop space.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories
Integrable field theories
Solitonic solutions in classical field theories
2007 - 2009
M.Sc. in Physics
Federal University of EspÃrito Santo (UFES)
2003 - 2007
B.Sc. in Physics
Federal University of EspÃrito Santo (UFES)
2013- 2013
Postdoc
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Durham, UK
RESEARCH GRANTS
ICRANet sabbatical grant - Germany (2014-2015)
FAP - UFES young researcher grant (2015 - 2017)
FAPES project: "Solitons & Q-balls" (2019 - 2020)
MAIN ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS
Hidden symmetries of the gauge theories for the Fundamental Interactions of Nature
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At the quantum level, conformal non-abelian field theories develop a scale, leading to the quark-gluon confinement.
We approach part of this problem by investigating the hidden symmetries in the loop space formulation of these theories.
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Solitons in low dimensions
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We investigate the existence and dynamics of solitonic solutions in integrable and non-integrable field theories.