About Me

I was born on the 06/06/1966 (what makes me 35 now), what is very convenient, since I am not very good in remembering dates. I don�t think I am the beast. If I am, I was born in the wrong country and have the wrong religion.

Originally, I and my wife are from S�o Paulo, which is the largest city in Brazil and one of the largest (third) in the world. There I did my degree in Physics at the University of S�o Paulo (USP), completed in 1987, and also my M.Sc. (1990) in the Department of Mathematical Physics (FMA) of the same university. Then I went to the University of Cambridge, where I obtained a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (1991). Following that, I went to King�s College London, University of London, where I obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics (1995). Then I returned to the University of S�o Paulo, where I stayed for one year as a post-doc and then became a lecturer at the State University of Santa Catarina (1996), in Joinville, southern Brazil, a medium sized industrial city of German colonization. After getting married (1999), I and my wife moved to S�o Bento do Sul, a small twon near Joinville. We were introduced by a common friend, and before we met for the first time, we had already talked by telephone for more than 6 hours, non-stop.

I also have other interests besides science: I like to read (mainly science fiction, to my wife�s dismay), play computer games and watch films. For those who like dogs, I have two: a female named Laika and a male poodle called Black.