Faculty

The faculty of the Graduate Program in Physics currently has the participation of 29 professors, of which 27 are permanent professors and 2 are collaborating professors at the Physics Institute of UFAL.

Effective faculty members

Alcenísio José de Jesus Silva (CNPq 2)

PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2012)
Classical optics, quantum optics, non-linear opticas, lasers and their applications. 

André de Lima Moura (CNPq 2)

PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2013)

Condensed matter physics and random lasers.

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Anielle Christine Almeida Silva (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brasil (2014)

Syntesis, caracterization, functionalizations and coupling of coloidal nanoparticles searching for nanotecnological and bionanothecnological applications as well as the development and characterization of ionic crystals for dosimetry and vitreous nanostructured systems doped with rare earths.

CV-Lattes  

Askery Alexandre Canabarro Barbosa da Silva (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2010)

Machine learning, quantum information, bifurcations, dynamic systems with delayed response, chaos.

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Carlos Jacinto da Silva (CNPq 1C)
PhD in Physics, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil (2006)

Spectroscopy in nanostructured materials, thermal lens ams z-scan, applications in photonics and thermal and electronic non-linearities, nonothermometry and biophotonic imaging. 

David Vieira Sampaio (CNPq 2)

PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil (2016)

Ferroelectric ceramics, luninescence in glasses, synthesis, caracterization and computational simulation of materials.

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Eduardo Jorge da Silva Fonseca (CNPq 1D)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil (2000)

Light angular momentum, quantum and classical aspects of ligth, entanglement, and characterization of advanced materials.

Fernanda Selingardi Matias (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil e Universitat de les Illes Balears, Espanha (2014)
 
Computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, antecipated syncronization, causality and complexity measures, oscillations and connectivity in neural networks, data analysis and computational simulations.

Francisco Anacleto Barros Fidelis de Moura (CNPq 1C)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil (2003)

Anderson localization, elementary excitations in amorphous systems, phase transitions in disordered systems, efects of interactions  among elementary excitations in amorphous systems.

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GlauberT. Silva (CNPq 2)
PhD in Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil (2003)

Physical acoustics, microfluidics, ultrasound imaging.

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Guilherme Martins Alves de Almeida (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil (2016)

Quantum information and disordered systems, communication protocols in quantum networks.
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Iram Marcelo Gléria (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade de Brasília, Brasil (2001)

Chaos theory and quasi-polinomial dynamical systems.

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Italo Marcos Nunes de Oliveira (CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2007)

Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Free-standing films, Casimir force, Liquid Crystals, Layer Thinning e Surface effects.

José Pereira Leão Neto (CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2015)

Acoustic scattering, manipulation of particles using radiation force and torque.

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José Henrique Araújo Lopes de Andrade (CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2014)

Physical acoustics, acoustic scattering, acoustic radiation force and torque, ultrasound imaging.

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Marcelo Leite Lyra (CNPq 1A)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil (1990)

Critical and nonlinear phenomena, transport in structured media, liquid crystals, quantum magnetism.

Maria Socorro Seixas Pereira  (CNPq 2)

PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2011)
Physics teaching, magnetic materials and magnetic properties, phase transitions, efects of nanoparticles addition in liquid crystals. 

Noelio Oliveira Dantas (CNPq 1D)
PhD in Physics, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil (1993)

Optical and spectroscopic propeties of condensed matter, synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals, semiconductors and semimagnetic glasses doped with rare earth and transition metals; systhesis using coloidal methods.

CV-Lattes  

Osvaldo Anibal Rosso (CNPq 2)
PhD in Nuclear Physics, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina (1984)

Time series analysis, nonlinear dynamics, wavelet theory, information theory and its applications in biology and medicine.

CV-Lattes  

Paulo Cesar Aguiar Brandão Filho (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil (2016)
Optical systems with PT symmetry, optical transformations and metamaterials, phase singularities in wave fields.
CV-Lattes 

Samuel Teixeira de Souza 
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas (2014)

Atomic force microscopy, near field optical microscopy, biomechanic characterization of biological samples and characterization of advanced materials.

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Solange Bessa Cavalcanti (CNPq 1D)
PhD in Physics, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, Inglaterra (1983)

Linear and nolinear optical waves propagation, nanostructured systems, photonic crystals, metamaterials, ionic crystals, plasmons, phonon polaritons, structured bosonic reservoirs.
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Tiago Homero Mariz do Nascimento (CNPq 2)
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil (2007)

Particle and field phyics, teories behond the standard theory, noncomuting coordinates and models with broken Lorentz symmetry.

Ueslen Rocha Silva (CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2014)
Optical spectroscopy and optical fluorescence microscopy of organic and inorganic meterials, biophotonics, thermal and florescence bio-imaging, luninescence nanothermometry, nonlinear optics.
Vinícius Manzoni Vieira(CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2011)
Atomic and molecular physics, spectroscopic properties of molecular systems in solutions, statistical physics, phase transitions, artificial nural networks.
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Wandearley da Silva Dias (CNPq 2)
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2011)
Electronic transport in low dimensional systems, development of low-cost teaching experiments.Atua na pesquisa de transporte eletrônico em sistemas de baixa dimensionalidade, bem como na influência de experimentos didáticos de baixo-custo no ensino de Física.


Corpo Docente Colaborador

Francisco de Assis Martins Gomes Rego Filho 
PhD in Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2013)

Photonic therapies, hard tissue ablation and photodynamic therapy; nonlinear optics, frequency conversiton in rare earth doped materials, photoacoustic calorimetry to characterize photochemical processes in molecules of biomedical interest.

Willamys Cristiano Soares Silva
PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil (2011)
Quantum and nonlinear optics, angular momentum of light, Laguerre-Gausss, Bessel and Hermite-Bessil beams, eliptical beams, difraction of optical vortices and parametric down-conversion experiments.