Dr. Mathias B. Steiner
Dr. Mathias Steiner is a physicist with 20 years of industrial research and development experience acquired on three continents. In his work, he combines computational methods and lab experiments for developing and testing novel scientific tools. As an Independent Researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he currently explores the convergence of artificial intelligence and quantum computing for accelerating materials discovery.
Mathias has initiated and managed several multi-national R&D collaborations with industrial and academic partners, leading to 200+ papers, patents, and open-science contributions that were cited and reused thousands of times. As research manager and principal investigator, he has coordinated teams of 50+ industrial researchers across labs in Brazil, Switzerland, Japan, UK, and the US.
Dr. Bernardo Fraga
Dr. Bernardo Fraga is a researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), and a member of the AI4PHYSICS lab. Originally trained as an astrophysicist, he works on applying artificial intelligence to data-intensive physical systems. His current research focuses on AI for oil and gas, including seismic interpretation and machine-learning-based estimation of petrophysical properties, with an emphasis on physics-informed and generative methods that connect fundamental science with real-world industrial challenges.
Dr. Constantino Tsallis
Constantino Tsallis is a theoretical physicist primarily interested in statistical mechanics, its foundations and applications. Born in Athens-Greece, he concluded his basic studies in physics at the Institute Balseiro, National University of Cuyo, in Bariloche, Argentina, and obtained his Doctorat d’État ès Sciences Physiques in 1974 at the University of Paris, where he acted as
Associate Professor. He then moved to Brazil, and works at the Brazilian Center of Research of Physics (CBPF) in Rio de Janeiro. He proposed in 1988 a generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs theory based on nonadditive entropies characterized by an index q (q=1 recovers the BG theory), which is being worldwide explored (Bibliography). He delivered graduate and undergraduate, classical and quantum courses in France, Brazil, USA, Argentina, Germany, Turkey. Also, he delivered over one thousand invited talks around the world. He is External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico (where he extensively collaborated with the Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann), the Complexity Science Hub Vienna-Austria, and the Dottorato in Sistemi Complessi per le Scienze Fisiche, Socio-economiche e della Vita-Università di Catania. During many years, he headed the CBPF Theoretical Physics Department and acted as member of the IUPAP Statistical Physics Committee. He also served editorially in various research journals, including Physica A since 1986. Tsallis is recipient of several prizes, honors and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Award (USA), the Mexico Prize for Science and Technology, membership of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Economical, Political and Social Sciences of Brazil, the Latin America Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, honoring award for Latin America and Caribbean of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Mercator Professorship (Germany), Doctor Honoris Causa at the National University of Cordoba-Argentina, the State University of Maringá, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, and the Aristotelian University of Thessalonica-Greece. He was awarded the Aristion (Excellence) Award for Natural and Exact sciences by the Academy of Athens, originally founded by Plato. His generalized statistical mechanics was selected by the Physics Nobel Committee for the 2027 Nobel Symposium in Physics, titled “Beyond Boltzmann: Complexity, Memory and Non-Additive entropies”, to be held in Lund, Sweden, in May 2027.
Dr. Veronica Iris Marconi
Dr. Veronica I. Marconi is an Associate Professor in FaMAF-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and Independent Researcher in CONICET, Argentina, where is working since 2007. She is a theoretical physicist primarily focusing today on active matter applications and multidisciplinary research. With extensive experience in Computational Physics, she teaches the subject since 2012. She obtained a PhD in Physics from Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche (AR) in 2002 and was honoured for her thesis on vortex dynamics with the Giambiagi Prize (2003). She worked in Europe as postdoc at ICTP-Trieste (2002-2004), Neuchâtel University (2004-2006), winning a Swiss-NSF grant for her project in superconductivity and UCMadrid (2006-2007) as a researcher with several contributions and patents on magnetic materials nanodesigned. Her areas of expertise include superconductivity (vortex dynamics, JJA and mesoscopic devices), nanostructured magnetic films (memory devices), crack propagation, natural and artificial microswimmers, microfluidics, porous media, gels and microgels. Today the central area of research are “Microdevices applied to life sciences, including agronomy (SOCs), reproductive medicine (LOCs, POCs), animal reproduction, and biotechnology in general. More info: ORCID
Dr. Etelvino Henrique Novotny
He graduated in Agronomy from the Federal University of Paraná (1993), MSc in Agronomy from the Federal University of Paraná (1997) and PhD in Chemistry from the University of São Paulo - USP (2002). He developed post-doctoral research at the Institute of Physics - São Carlos - University of São Paulo (USP), University of Limerick-Ireland (Chemical and Environmental Science) and Victoria University of Wellington-New Zealand (School of Chemical and Physical Sciences). He is Senior Researcher at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa Soils). He has experience in Soil Chemistry, Chemometrics, Physical Chemistry, focusing on Spectroscopy, acting on the following subjects: soil pore size distribution, soil water retention, soil organic matter, humic substances, humic acids, pyrogenic carbon (black carbon), biochar and spectroscopies techniques such as: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and relaxometry, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Fluorescence and Infrared.
Dr. Tito José Bonagamba
He is a full professor of Physics at the São Carlos Institute of Physics – University of São Paulo (IFSC/USP, Brazil), with experience in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), condensed matter physics, quantum computing and instrumentation. He has held postdoctoral positions in the U.S., visiting professorships in Europe, and collaborates with industry on research and innovation. A member of the Latin American and São Paulo State Academies of Sciences, he served as Director of IFSC/USP (2014–2018) and later coordinated the USP Innovation Center at São Carlos (2022–2026).
Dr. Marcos Vitor Barbosa Machado
Marcos Machado is a Senior Petroleum Engineer at PETROBRAS with extensive experience in reservoir engineering and field management. Since joining PETROBRAS in 2007, he advanced to the role of Senior Technical Advisor in 2020, specializing in project development, human resources training, numerical modeling, and CCUS initiatives. Dr. Machado holds a PhD in Reservoir Engineering and completed a 2-year PostDoc Program at The University of Texas at Austin in 2024. He also teaches part-time at PUC-Rio University and has authored over 80 technical manuscripts, including research papers, conference papers, and a book on Reservoir Simulation edited by PETROBRAS. His focus is on optimizing reservoir performance and mitigating risks in gas storage projects.
Dr. Juliane Simmchen
Dr. José Soares de Andrade Jr.
Dr. Wenceslau G. Teixeira
Dr. Pedro Aum
Dr. Celso Peres Fernandes
Dr. Hans Hermann
Dr. Paulo Couto
Dr. Luiz Hegele Jr.
Dr. Michel Quintard
Dr. Linda Luquot