The Graduate Program in Physics at UFRJ's Physics Institute celebrates a significant achievement for national research. Professor Natanael Costa was
Category: Honors and Prizes
PhD Student's Thesis Nominated for the 2025 José Leite Lopes Award
The thesis in the field of Statistical and Computational Physics, by graduate Bruno Magacho da Silva and supervised by Professor Luca Moriconi, is among
Belita Koiller, Faculty Member at PPG Physics/UFRJ, Earns the 2025 Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Award
Belita Koiller, a Faculty Member at the Physics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), has won the 2025 Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro Award
Professor Luiz Davidovich Wins Willis E. Lamb Prize
The Willis E. Lamb Prize, named after the famous laser scientist and Nobel Physics Prize winner of 1955, is given each year for great work in the field
UFRJ Physics Professor Awarded 2025 TWAS Medal
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.
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 Honarable Mention from Brazilian Science Society
Lucas Garcia's thesis in the field of "Particles and Fields", supervised by Professor Murilo Rangel, has received honorable mention in the 2024 SBF Thesis Award.
UFRJ Physics Student Honored for Doctoral Research
Yuri Muniz de Souza received 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.