Researchers

Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
She is professor and curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art from the University of São Paulo (MAC – USP). Graduated in History at the University of Campinas - UNICAMP (1992), MSc in Art History and Culture by the same institution (1995), and Ph.D. in History and Criticism of Art at the University of São Paulo - USP (2000). She served as editorial coordinator of the “Fundação Bienal de São Paulo” between 2001 and 2008. Ana is also a member of the Brazilian Committee of Art History (CBHA) since 2000. Scholarship Productivity CNPq 2 (2013-2015). Her research lines are Theory and Criticism of Art, with the "MAC USP Collection - History and Memory"  and "A Collection of Italian Art in Brazil" projects,and History of Museum Processes and Collections, with the "Critical reassessment and Cataloging Collection update from MAC USP " project.
 
 



Augusto Camara Neiva
Graduated (1976), MSc (1985) and Ph.D. (1993) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Served in P/D in Cosipa, IPEN and the Institute of Physics of USP. He was industrial manager of Mextra Extractive Metallurgy in Diadema, professor of the Metallurgy Course from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and director of engineering course from  the Metropolitan University of Santos.  Postdoctoral  at the University of Birmingham, England. He is currently professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of University of São Paulo and also operates at the Center for Solidarity Economy University of São Paulo.  He is evaluator of the courses and institutions of the National Evaluation System of High Education. He has experience in the area of ​​phase diagrams, magnetic materials, sintering of powders, electrochemical, microstructural characterization, artificial patinas, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and characterization of cultural heritage.
 
 


Carlos Roberto Appoloni
He has Bachelor in Physics from the University of São Paulo (1973), MSc (1976) and PhD (1983) in Nuclear Physics from the University of São Paulo and Postdoctoral in Applied Nuclear Physics by Università di Roma Sapienza (1993). He teaches at the State University of Londrina (UEL) since 1976. He created and coordinates the Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics of this university (www.fisica.uel.br / gfna). He has experience in the area of ​​physics, with emphasis on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation for Nuclear Physics and applications with radioisotopes. He acts mainly in the following areas: transmission and scattering of gamma rays, X-ray fluorescence, gamma spectrometry, X-ray microtomography and Raman spectroscopy. He also acts as a teacher and counselor in Masters (since 1996) and PhD (since 2000) in Physics  courses at UEL.
 
 



Fabíola Andréa Silva
Graduated in History at the University of the Vale do Rios dos Sinos  (1988), MSc in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1992), PhD in Sciences (Social Anthropology) at the University of São Paulo (2000) and Postdoctoral in Archaeology at the University of São Paulo (2002). She is currently a professor and researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo. She has experience in the area of ​​archeology and anthropology, with an emphasis on Indigenous and Ethnoarcheology and Ethnology, acting in the following subjects: Material Culture, Archeological Registry Formation, Ethnographic Collections Curator and Archaeology in Indigenous Land. Conducts a Ethnographic and Etnoarcheological  research  with  the Asurini of the Xingu, the Kayapó-Xikrin, the Terena and the Kayabi people.
 
 



Manfredo Harri Tabacniks
Full professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Sao Paulo.  He has bachelor in Physics (1977), Master in Nuclear Physics (1983) and Doctor of Science (1991) from the University of São Paulo. He has post-doctorate in materials science and magnetic thin films performed at IBM-Almaden Research Center, USA, from 1994 to 1996. From 1979 to 1990 he carried out a research on air pollution and atmospheric aerosols with the installation of the elemental analysis method PIXE at the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (IFUSP).Currently Head of the Department of Applied Physics at the Physics Institute from USP and Coordinator of LAMFI (Laboratory of Materials and Ionic Beams) since 1996. Currently investigates the use and effects of energetic ions for analysis (PIXE, ERDA, RBS) and modifying materials. In 2008-2009 he collaborated with the "Laboratory for Aerosols, Clouds and Optics", LACO, in the UMBC-USA, in experimental studies of aerosols and water vapor interaction.
 
 



Márcia de Almeida Rizzutto
She has Bachelor (1986) and Licenciate (1997) in Physics at the University of São Paulo, MSc (1989) and Ph.D. (1994) in Basic Nuclear Physics (Nuclear Structure) at the University of São Paulo. Postdoctoral in Applied Nuclear Physics with Accelerators at the University of São Paulo, in Experimental Nuclear Physics at the Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (Sezione di Padova/Italy) and ind Archeometry at the University of Sassari (Italy). She is currently professor of the University of Sao Paulo. She works mainly in the area of ​​Applied Nuclear Physics with Accelerators on the themes: Modifications and studies of polymers with implantation and ion beams, material characterization, analysis of artworks with ion beams, Archeometry.
 
 



Nemitala Added
Has Bachelor(1981), MSc (1987) and PhD (1991) in Physics from the University of São Paulo and post-doctoral fellowship by the Argonne National Laboratory (1992). He is currently Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo. He has experience in the area of ​​physics, with an emphasis in Nuclear Physics. Acting on the following topics: angular correlation, fragmentation, incomplete fusion, dissipative processes, and sequential decay.
 
 





Patrick C. Ravines
Became the director of Buffalo State’s renowned Art Conservation Department in July 2010. Ravines has more than 25 years of experience as a conservator, researcher, and administrator. Before coming to Buffalo State, he served as senior project conservator and research fellow at the George Eastman House (GEH) International Museum of Photography and Film, where he worked with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a collaborative program to study the deterioration of daguerreotypes using advanced electron and optical imaging techniques. Prior to his position at GEH, Ravines was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation in Rochester, and, for more than a decade, chief of the Conservation Office at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. He holds advanced degrees in chemistry (University of Wisconsin), library science, and library and archives conservation (Columbia University).
 
 



Paulo Teixeira Lumatti
Graduated in History at the University of São Paulo (1993), Ph.D. in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2001) and Post-doctorate at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo (2003). He is currently Lecturer Professor of the History area of ​​the IEB-USP, and Visiting Professor at the Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines of the University of Poitiers. He has experience in the areas of historiography, history of ideas, cultural history and archival science, working mainly with the history of Brazil Republic, Brazilian historiography,history of popular culture and musical literature.
 
 




Solange Ferraz de Lima
Bachelor, master, doctorate and lecturer in Social History at the University of São Paulo, active in the area of Material Culture. Since 1990 exercises curator and teaching activities  at the Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo, an institution which she is currently the deputy director. She is co-author of Photography and City: from urban reason to the logic of consumption (1997) and the book of Photographs Treatment (2000). She currently develops the trusteeship form of iconographic printed materials and researches about the contexts of production and circulation of photomechanical processes in Brazil and Europe.