Felix Guillermo Gonzalez Hernandez

Physicist with a Bachelor's degree from the Universidad de Costa Rica (Dec/2001), and a Masters (Mar/2004) and Ph.D. (Oct/2007) in Physics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with research conducted at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory and a sandwich period at Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany. Since February 2009, he has been a faculty member at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (IFUSP), where he earned his Habilitation (Livre-Docência) in December 2018 and currently holds the position of Associate Professor (level 5.3) in the Department of Materials Physics. His research lies in experimental condensed matter physics, with emphasis on quantum materials, time-resolved optical spectroscopy in the infrared and with terahertz waves, and electronic transport. After his Ph.D, he held 24 visiting research and visiting professor positions at several leading institutions, including McGill University (Montreal), GHMFL-CNRS (Grenoble), IBM Research (Zurich), TU Dortmund, University of Michigan, and Rice University (Houston). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)