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Overview
My research has
always been focused on a specific modus operandi rather
than on a specific theme: trying
to find links between seemingly
uncorrelated areas and using methods of
one to explain the other. I became
interested in this kind of approach during
my Master, when I studied how Conformal
Field Theory could be used to determine
the operator content of exactly integrable
spin models of Statistical Mechanics.
Later, during my PhD, I worked on mappings
of SU(p/q)-invariant (integrable) models
to reaction-diffusion processes and
crystal growth. I am also interested in
History of Science and have published a
few papers on this particular topic.
During my
career I have also published a few
experimental papers, an article on
prime-number theory and several annotated
translations from German and English into
Portuguese. My interest in the
popularization of science led me to
writing articles for the general (non
scientific) public, published in
newspapers and magazines. The most
extensive newspaper article was the one
published in 2015 in the German Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, which is
related to the work I am doing now on
networks and history (a link to this
article can be found in the homepage under
the acronym FAZ). I have also published
several articles for undergraduate
students in the Revista
Brasileira de Ensino de Física (Brazilian
Journal of Physics Teaching).
Temporal Network Theory
My research in
this field has been conducted in
collaboration with Ana Bazzan (Computer
Science, Porto Alegre), Sandra Prado
(Physics, Porto Alegre), Ralph Kenna and
Pádraig Mac Carron (Physics, Coventry and
Maynooth), Julia Hillner and Maírín Mac
Carron (History, Sheffield and Dublin) and Robert
Gramsch-Stehfest (Jena). The idea is to provide
historians with techniques they can use and
gain new insights into historical events.
The work done with Robert Gramsch-Stehfest
and Ana Bazzan was that of finding
coalitions of sovereigns during the crisis
of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations
in 1225. The ongoing project with Julia and
Maírín
is on networks of women
during the Late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages. This project is
supported by the Leverhulme
Foundation. I am also studying
networks of scientists in a project
with Giuditta Parolini of the
Technische Universität Berlin
(TU-Berlin).
History
of Science
I wrote an extensive
article on the Physics and Mathematics of Denis
Diderot. I am currently studying Bede's De
Temporum Ratione and related literature on
time reckoning.
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