ABOUT ME
EDUCATION
B.Sc. in Physics, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1991).
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Berkeley (1998). Thesis: Nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy of surfactants at interfaces. Advisor: Prof. Yuen-Ron Shen.
Post-doc: University of California at Santa Barbara (1999-2001). Used ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate charge carrier photogeneration in semiconducting polymers. Supervisor: Prof. Alan J. Heeger
Assistant Professor of Physics at Sao Paulo State University at Bauru, Brazil (2001-2003).
Assistant (2003-2015) and now Associate Professor of Physics at the Sao Carlos Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I have experience in physical chemistry of interfaces, focusing on using sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy to investigate the molecular arrangement at interfaces (adsorption, polyelectrolyte thin films, electrochemistry, Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films). Another research topic includes the use of optical absorption, photoluminescence and pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate charge photogeneration and recombination in semiconducting conjugated polymers.