Luiz Davidovich, an emeritus professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and its Institute of Physics, has been awarded the 2025 TWAS Medal.
Category: Honors and Prizes
UFRJ Student Wins Award for Neutrino Research Poster
Doctoral student Marcelo Ismério Oliveira secured third place for best poster with his work titled "Impact of the Earth's Density Profile on Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations", supervised by
Physics Student Wins Best Poster Prize at Brazilian Science Meeting
Jadson Silva, a second-year doctoral student under the supervision of Professor Natanael de Carvalho Costa, has won the best poster award in the Strongly Correlated Systems session at the 2024 SBF Fall Meeting.
Physics Student's Thesis Earns an Honarable Mention from Brazilian Science Society
Lucas Garcia's thesis in the field of "Particles and Fields", supervised by Professor Murilo Rangel, has received an honorable mention in the 2024 SBF Thesis Award.
UFRJ Physics Student Honored for Doctoral Research
Yuri Muniz de Souza has received an an honorable mention in the esteemed José Leite Lopes Prize for his doctoral thesis at IF-UFRJ titled 'Quantum light-matter interactions in low-dimensional materials'. The Optics and Photonics Commission praised Muniz's innovative work, which was supervised by Professor Carlos Farina de Souza (UFRJ) and co-supervised by Professor Wilton Junior de Melo Kort-Kamp (Los Alamos National Laboratory – LANL).
UFRJ Physicist Wins Top Brazilian Award for Doctoral Thesis
Yuri Muniz has received the SBF award for the best thesis in Optics and Photonics. His doctoral work, 'Quantum light-matter interactions in low-dimensional materials', earned this prestigious recognition.
UFRJ Student Wins Best Poster at International Physics Workshop
Rodrigo Alves Fontenele, a PhD student in our Graduate Program, has won the best poster award at an important international workshop.
Faculty and Students from UFRJ Physics Graduate Program Develop First Penning Trap in South America
Available here: https://sbfisica.org.br/v1/sbf/laboratorio-da-ufrj-cria-tecnica-inovadora-para-aprisionar-ions
Juan Manuel Zárate Pretel Wins SBF Thesis Award
Juan Manuel Zárate Pretel, a doctoral student at UFRJ, has won the SBF Thesis Award for his work titled 'Stellar structure in f(R) and f(R,T) theories of modified gravity'.
CAPES 2021 Quadrennial Evaluation: Physics Graduate Program at IF-UFRJ Maintains Top Grade 7
We are pleased to announce that the Graduate Program in Physics at IF-UFRJ has maintained the highest grade of 7 in the CAPES 2021 quadrennial evaluation, which demonstrates the excellence of our graduate program.