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Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Name: Abílio Mateus Jr.
Date and Place of Birth: 9 November 1978 — Ivaiporã, Paraná, Brazil

Current position

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2008: Post-doctorate
    Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, LAM, Marseille, France
    Project: Semi-empirical analysis of galaxy spectra
    Fellowship: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Past positions

  • Oct 2006 - Dec 2007: Post-doctorate
    Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, IEEC, Barcelona, Spain
    Fellowship: Alfa-LENAC
  • May-Set 2006: Post-doctorate
    Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
    Project: Galactic Archaeology: Evolution of physical properties of galaxies
    Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp)

Education

  • 2003 - 2006: Ph.D. in Astronomy
    Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
    Thesis: Semi-Empirical Analysis of galaxy spectra
    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Laerte Sodré Jr.
    Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp)
  • 2001 - 2003: M.S. in Astronomy
    Universidade de São Paulo, USP, São Paulo, Brazil
    Dissertation: Environmental dependence of star formation in galaxies
    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Laerte Sodré Jr.
    Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp)
  • 1997 - 2000: B.S. in Physics
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, UFMT, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
    Project I: Diagrama de fluxo para sistemas com multi-interações através do grupo de renormalização de campo médio
    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Alberto Sebastião de Arruda
    Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
    Project II: A study on mixed pairs of galaxies
    Advisor: Prof. Drª. Telma C. Couto da Silva
    Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Honors and awards

  • 2007: Prêmio Capes de Teses 2007: Menção Honrosa
    (Best 2007 Thesis Prize: Honorate Mention)
    Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior do Ministério da Educação (CAPES/MEC), Brasil
  • 2000: Láurea Acadêmica
    Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, UFMT, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil

Complementary formation

  • 16 - 18 Aug 2007 : 11th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2007, "Dark matter, dark energy, CMB and LSS: understanding the physics of the Universe" -- Ecole Internationale Daniel Chalonge, Paris, France
  • 6 - 12 Apr 2006 : IAG-LENAC XIII Advanced School of Astrophysics, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
  • 12 - 16 Set 2005 : First INPE Advanced Course: A Roadmap for Cosmology -- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil
  • 1 Jul - 31 Jul 2004 : Guillermo Haro Workshop on Violent Star Formation and the Legacy Tool -- INAOE, Tonantzintla, Mexico

Research interests

  • Characterization of galaxies and their content
  • Formation and evolution of galaxies
  • Effects of environment on galaxy evolution
  • Data mining from large galaxy surveys and automated treatment of data

Personal skills

Languages

  • Portuguese: Reading, Writing, Lecturing
  • English: Reading, Writing, Lecturing
  • Spanish: Reading, Writing
  • French: Reading

Computational Experience

  • Programming languages: IDL, Fortran, PGPLOT, SM, Shell Script
  • Other tools: some essential IRAF knowledge
  • Markup languages: LaTeX, HTML
  • Operating Systems: Linux and Unix, Windows 2000/XP

Professional affiliations

  • Member of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (SAB)

Academic services

  • Student Representative in the Council of the Department of Astronomy, IAG, University of São Paulo
  • Organization of the weekly seminars of the "Extragalactic and Cosmology Group" of the Department of Astronomy, IAG, University of São Paulo