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Personal data
- Name: Alexandre Alarcon do Passo Suaide
- Place and date of birth: Baurú, São Paulo, Brazil in April 9th, 1972
- Work phone: +55 (11) 3091-7072
- Work fax: +55 (11) 3031-2742
- e-mail: suaide @ dfn.if.usp.br
- web page: http://www.dfn.if.usp.br/~suaide
Professional information
- Professor of the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil since November 2004.
Academic titles
- 2011 - Livre-docente in the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
- 1999 - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- 1994 - Graduated in Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Post-doctoral and other academic positions
- 04/2003 to 11/2004 - Post-doctoral at the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
- STAR Collaboration - High-pT and heavy-flavor physics
- Software coordinator of the STAR electromagnetic calorimeter
- Low energy nuclear reactions and nuclear astrophysics
- Nuclear instrumentation and data acquisition systems
- 03/2001 to 03/2003 - Research scholar at Wayne State University (Detroit, USA)
- STAR Collaboration - High-pT physics
- Software coordinator of the STAR electromagnetic calorimeter
- 03/2000 to 02/2001 - Post-doctoral at Wayne State University (Detroit, USA)
- STAR Collaboration - High-pT physics and software development
- 05/1999 to 02/2000 - Post-doctoral at the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Low energy nuclear reactions and nuclear astrophysics
- Nuclear instrumentation
Research interests
My personal research interests are concentrated in many different aspects of Nuclear Physics Sciences. My main activity is to study relativistic heavy-ion reactions focusing the different aspects of heavy-flavor production and their interaction with the matter created in such collisions. In order to carry these activities I am member of the
STAR collaboration 
at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) in the
Brookhaven National Laboratory 
, USA. Our research group is also member of the
Alice experiment 
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at
Cern 
. Other basic research activities include the study of nuclear reaction dynamics at low energy collisions and nuclear astrophysics. These activities are carried mainly in the
Pelletron Laboratory 
at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. I also give particular attention to nuclear instrumentation research, focusing mainly in the development of data acquisition systems for low-energy nuclear accelerators.
Principal activities
- Member of the Alice collaboration (CERN) since 2007
- Coordinator of the Physics Institute Computing Center since 2007
- Convener of the STAR heavy-flavor group from 2005 to 2009
- Software coordinator of the STAR electromagnetic calorimeter from 2001 to 2006
- Member of the STAR collaboration since 2000
- Member of the Nuclear Physics Department Computing committee from 1997 to 2000
Student advisoring
- Finished Thesis/Dissertations
- Mauro Rogério Cosentino - Defended Ph.D. thesis in March/2008
- Renato Aparecido Negrão de Oliveira - Defended Master dissertation in September/2009
- Graduated students
- Denise Moreira de Godoy - since august/2009
- Lucas Mafia Lima - since march/2008
- Renato Aparecido Negrão de Oliveira - since October/2009
- Under-graduated students
- Bárbara de Souza Ferreira
- Elienos Pereira de Oliveira Filho