Melissa de Andrade Nunes

Bachelor in Astronomy (2021) and Master in Geophysics (2024) from the University of São Paulo (USP), currently a PhD candidate in the Geophysics Department at USP. Honorary Member of the Paulo Marques dos Santos Academic Center: General Director (2017) and Council Member (2018-2020), she served as a student representative on the Research Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee in 2023. She was a full student representative on the University Council (2020-2021), a full member (2019-2020) and an alternate member (2018-2019) of the Undergraduate Committee, the Technical-Administrative Council (2019-2020), and the Astronomy Course Organizing Committee (2020-2021). She worked as a volunteer (2018-2019) and scholarship holder (2019-2020) at the Abrahão de Moraes Observatory. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ricardo I. F. Trindade, she investigated Martian magnetism (2020-2022) and studied the effects of lightning on the magnetic mineralogy of rocks and its possible implications for the crustal magnetism of celestial bodies in the Solar System (2022-2024). Currently, she studies the magnetic stability of meteorite inclusions from the first 200 million years of the Solar System and their records of the magnetic field during this early phase. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)