Carlos Alberto Moreira dos Santos

Graduated in Chemical Engineering (1989), master's in Physics (1991), and PhD in Materials Engineering (2000) with an emphasis in the area of superconductivity. He did postdoctoral work between August 2005 and August 2007 in the Physics Department of Montana State University in the USA. He is currently a professor at the Lorena School of Engineering - USP. He received the title of associate professor in October 2010 at this unit. In December 2010, he received the 2009 CAPES Thesis Award for having supervised a doctoral thesis in the area of materials science. In 2015, he received the USP Thesis Award for having supervised another doctoral thesis in the same area. He works in the area of condensed matter physics, mainly studying the preparation and characterization of anisotropic conductive and superconducting materials, as well as their conduction mechanisms. He is currently working to demonstrate that the electron has a toroidal structure and moves in a helical shape when subjected to external action. He has scientific collaborations with several groups in Brazil and the United States. Among his most important publications are articles in Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Applied Physics. Due to his multidisciplinary training, he has dedicated himself to seeking and motivating students in basic education to continue their studies in higher education, mainly for careers in exact sciences and engineering. Due to these efforts, he ended up idealizing and collaborating with the creation of the Postgraduate Program in Educational Projects in Science, of which he is a permanent member. Between 2014 and 2017, he assumed the vice-director position at the Lorena School of Engineering. Between 2017 and 2021, he was in charge of the USP Campus at Lorena. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)