Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz

Rodrigo Capaz holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1989), a Master's degree in Physics from the same institution (1991), and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1996). Awards: Guggenheim Fellow (2003) and Young Scientist Award TWAS-ROLAC, Physics, 2009. He was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley in 2003-2005 and 2009-2010, and at the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano) in 2020-2021. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Coordinator of the Theoretical Nanometrology Laboratory at Inmetro (2006-2016). Member of the Physics and Astronomy Advisory Committee of CNPq (2014-2017). Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission C8 (Semiconductor Physics) (2017-2021). Member (2017-2019) and President (2019-2021) of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Area Commission of the Brazilian Physical Society. Vice-President (2021-2023) and President (2023-2025) of the Brazilian Physical Society. He is currently Director of the Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LNNano) at the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM). Until July 2024, he has published 175 articles, with 10,100 citations and an H-index of 40 (Web of Science). Specialty Chief Editor of "Frontiers in Carbon" since 2022. International Councilor of the American Physical Society since 2025. Full Professor at the Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has experience in Physics, with an emphasis on Condensed Matter Physics, mainly working on the following topics: graphene and 2D materials, carbon nanotubes, semiconductors and surfaces, and first-principles calculations using Density Functional Theory (DFT). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)