CV
Current position
Assistant Professor of Physics, São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo — April 2025–present.
Research on glasses and glass-ceramics using solid-state NMR and computational methods; undergraduate physics and laboratory teaching.
Education
- Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Münster, 2016–2019. Thesis on structure–property relationships in glasses and glass-ceramics using solid-state NMR. Advisors: Hellmut Eckert and Michael Ryan Hansen.
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Münster, 2014–2016. Thesis on cation environments in ion-conducting glass-ceramics. Advisor: Michael Ryan Hansen.
- B.Sc. in Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, 2011–2014. Thesis on superstructures of polymer-coated nanoparticles. Advisor: Nadja C. Bigall.
Research experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of São Carlos, 2020–2024. Glass relaxation, crystallization, and NMR methods for quadrupolar nuclei, with Edgar D. Zanotto.
- Scientific Co-worker, University of Münster, 2016–2020. Structural characterization of functional glasses and glass-ceramics and implementation of NMR pulse sequences, with Hellmut Eckert.
- Research Assistant, University of Münster, 2015–2016. NMR studies of ion-conducting materials, with Michael Ryan Hansen.
Methods and software
- Experiments: solid-state NMR, including MAS, CP-MAS, MQMAS, dipolar recoupling, and INADEQUATE; X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinement; DSC, Raman, and impedance spectroscopy.
- Simulation: SIMPSON and mrsimulator for NMR; LAMMPS for molecular dynamics; CASTEP and Wien2k for electronic-structure calculations.
- Analysis: Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, and OriginLab.
Further information
Browse my publications, talks, and NMR tutorials.
