EDUCATION:

Years Degree
1997 – 2000 PhD in Theoretical Physics

University of São Paulo

Title: “Aspects of Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Stochastic Processes and Analogy with Turbulence”

Advisor: Carlos O. Escobar

1995 – 1996 PhD Student

Auckland University, Department of Physics

Subject: Light scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates

Advisor: Dan Walls

1992 – 1994 MSc in Theoretical Physics

University of São Paulo

Title: “Studies of Dissipative Effects in the Quantum Limit of Weber Antennas”.

Advisor: Carlos O. Escobar

1988 – 1991 BSc in Physics

University of São Paulo

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Years Academic Position
2022 – Professor

University of Connecticut, Department of Physics

2014 – 2022 Professor (Chair 2016 – 2022)

Yeshiva University, Department of Physics

2013 – 2014 Associate Professor

Yeshiva University, Department of Physics

2007 – 2013 Assistant Professor

Yeshiva University, Department of Physics

2004 – 2007 Research Associate

Dartmouth College, Department of Physics

Advisor: Lorenza Viola

2002 – 2004 Research Associate

Michigan State University, Department of Physics

Advisor: Mark I Dykman

2000 – 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow

Yale University, Department of Physics

Advisor: Dimitri Kusnezov

 

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Years Journal
2021 – Physical Review E
2020 – 2021 New Journal of Physics

 

AWARDS and HONORS:

Years Award
2021 Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics
2017 Outstanding Referee for the American Physical Society
2015 Cottrell Scholar
2015 Sabbatical funded by the ITAMP, Harvard
2012-2017 NSF CAREER Award
2010 Dean Karen Bacon Award for an Outstanding Junior Faculty Member
2009-2012 KITP Scholar
2009-2010 Cottrell College Science Award
2008 Member of the U.S. delegation to the “3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics”
2000-2001 Fellowship for postdoctoral position at Yale University: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP
1997-2000 Fellowship for PhD program: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq
1995-1996 New Zealand Official Development Assistance (NZODA) Study Award for PhD program at Auckland University

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER:
*) International Workshop on Disordered Systems – IWDS (Spain, 2024)
*) Workshop: New Directions in far from Equilibrium Integrability and beyond (Apr/29 – May/3, 2024)
Program: New Directions in far from Equilibrium Integrability and beyond (Simons Center at Stony Brook, Mar/11 – May/10, 2024)
*) Quantum Thermodynamics Conference – QTD (Vienna, Austria,  2023)
*) Conference: Exploring Non-equilibrium Long-range Quantum Matter (Nov/13 – 17, 2023)
Program: Out-of-equilibrium Dynamics and Quantum Information of Many-body Systems with Long-range Interactions (KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara, Oct/16 – Dec/22, 2023)
*) Quantum Matter: Dynamics and Sensors (UConn, Dec/19-22, 2022)
*) Workshops in Mexico (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
*) Workshop: Applications of Random Matrix Theory to many-body physics (Sep/16 – 20, 2019)
Program: Universality and ergodicity in quantum many-body systems (Simons Center at Stony Brook, Aug/26 – Oct/18, 2019)
*) International Workshop on Disordered Systems (IWDS): From Localization to Thermalization and Topology (South Korea, 2018)
*) Workshop: Quantum non-equilibrium phenomena (International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil, Jun/06-18, 2016)
*) EscobarFest: Celebrating Prof. Carlos O. Escobar’s 60th birthday (UNICAMP, Brazil, 2008)

     

    EXTERNAL SERVICES:
    *) Referee for Science, Science Advances, Nature Physics, Nature Communication, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, B, E, and X, New Journal of Physics, Annals of Physics, Annalen der Physik, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Optics B, Physics Letters A, Journal of Physics A, Journal of Physics B, Physica Scripta, Philosophical Magazine, Chaos, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Journal of Statistical Physics, American Journal of Physics, Quantum Information Processing, Foundations of Physics, Proceedings of the Royal Society, SciPost Physics, Entropy.
    *) Reviewer/Panelist for the National Science Foundation, Research Corporation, Department of Energy, German Research Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, British Royal Society, Simons Investigators, Science Foundation Ireland.
    *) APS Metropolis Award Selection Committee.
    *) APS LeRoy Apker Award selection committee for outstanding research by undergraduates.
    *) Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee of the APS Forum of Physics and Society.

     

    WOMEN IN PHYSICS:
    *) Participation on the 2023 Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) conference.
    *) Talk at Smith College (2023).
    *) Research projects with 28 female undergraduates and 2 female high school students.
    *) Mentored 4 students from the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women (JFEW) fellowship.
    *) Visited high schools for girls to talk about careers in physics.
    *) Prepared presentations on “Why study physics” for Open Houses and Major Fairs at Stern College for Women.
    *) Supported 10 female undergraduate students to give oral presentations at the APS March Meetings. Helped student with application for child-care support from the APS.
    *) Sent students to the APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics.
    *) Obtained the NSF Travel Grant for Women Speakers that covers the expenses of female professors who give talks at Stern College for Women.
    *) Wrote article “Science for All” which appeared in the Gazette – the Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics of the American Physical Society (2009).
    *) Co-authored the U.S. delegation paper “Women in Physics in the United States” for the proceedings of the 3rd IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (2008).