Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr.

Director of the Sao Carlos Institute of Physics · University of Sao Paulo · company speakers →

Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. is the director of the Sao Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS), a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and executive editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. He received his PhD from University of Wales, Bangor (1990), and in 2019 was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. He published ca. 690 papers in refereed journals, which received ca. 20,300 citations (h = 63) in the Web of Science, and 30,400 citations (h = 81) in Google Scholar, in June, 2024, filed 12 patents, and supervised 53 MSc and PhD students. In recent years, Prof. Oliveira has pioneered the combined use of methods from distinct fields of science, with the merge of methods of statistical physics and computer science to process text, and use of information visualization to enhance the performance of sensing and biosensing. In 2006 he was awarded the Scopus Prize, given to 16 Brazilian researchers considered the most productive in terms of papers published and citations.

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