IIP News 02
The IIP is a research institute with an international vocation, permanently facing the frontier areas of theoretical physics. Its mission is to intensify the exchange of scientific knowledge with the international community and, in particular with the Latin American community, being a pole unifying national strategic areas of theoretical physics.
The IIP is a research institute with an international vocation, permanently facing the frontier areas of theoretical physics. Its mission is to intensify the exchange of scientific knowledge with the international community and, in particular with the Latin American community, being a pole unifying national strategic areas of theoretical physics.
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New <strong>IIP</strong> researchers<br />
<strong>IIP</strong> <strong>News</strong> - Year II, number <strong>02</strong><br />
A new group of post-doctoral researchers is arriving at the <strong>IIP</strong> in 2017 to work in one of its six areas<br />
of research. Some of those physicists are already in Natal, conducting research jointly with <strong>IIP</strong><br />
professors and external collaborators.<br />
SAMURAÍ BRITO<br />
Born in Rio de Janeiro, but already living in Natal<br />
for many years, Samurai Brito finished her master’s<br />
and doctorate degree at the UFRN focusing<br />
on statistical and computational physics.<br />
Now as a member of the <strong>IIP</strong>, Dr. Brito is working<br />
in the field of Quantum information under the<br />
supervision of <strong>IIP</strong>’s Professor Rafael Chaves.<br />
“This certainly is a new challenge in my career.<br />
I am working a lot in this new project. For now I<br />
am reviewing some famous experiments to get<br />
to know better this field (quantum information), but I hope to make new contributions soon”.<br />
ANDREA PRUDENZIATI<br />
Andrea Prudenziati was born in Milan (Italy) and concluded his doctorate at SISSA, Trieste, where<br />
he started his work in the field of String Theory. Later, Dr Prudenziati moved to Japan, to work<br />
at the University of Kyoto. “What attracted me to the<br />
researcher career was the opportunity to work in<br />
different places around the world and the flexibility<br />
that I would have to develop my work in my own time”,<br />
says Prudenziati.<br />
After some time in Japan he had the opportunity to<br />
come to Brazil and joined the University of São Paulo<br />
(USP), where he worked on String Theory and ADS/<br />
CFT Correspondence. “I wanted to visit other centers<br />
in Brazil when I heard about the <strong>IIP</strong> in Natal. At the<br />
time I did not know about the post-doc position here,<br />
but when I got the opportunity I came”. At the <strong>IIP</strong> Dr.<br />
Prudenziati is also working on holographic description<br />
of entanglement and is collaborating with Professors<br />
Dmitry Melnikov and Rafael Chaves.<br />
Post-Doctoral Positions in Quantum Information<br />
The starting date for the positions can<br />
be negotiated but is expected to be in<br />
the period between May 2017 and November<br />
2017. The post-doctoral appointments<br />
will be for two years (extendible<br />
to two more years depending on mutual<br />
agreement) with a tax free monthly<br />
salary of R$ 7.000,00 (seven thousand<br />
Brazilian Reais).<br />
Interested candidates should send their<br />
CV with a list of publications,a short research<br />
statement and at least two letters<br />
of reference (in English) to Prof. Rafael<br />
Chaves (rchaves@iip.ufrn.br).<br />
The <strong>IIP</strong>-UFRN is located in the city of<br />
Natal in the Northeast of Brazil. It is a<br />
research institute of an international<br />
character, focused on the theoretical<br />
research in the modern areas of fundamental<br />
physics.<br />
Aiming at a leading role in the region,<br />
the Institute supports vast exchange,<br />
visitor and conference programs. It is<br />
also connected to the graduate program<br />
in physics of the UFRN, where<br />
it assists in providing excellence in<br />
post-graduate education in Brazil.