Curriculum Vitae


Contact and Personal Information

Education

2010 - 2014

Ph.D. in Physics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.
Title of Ph.D. thesis:

Aspects of Lorentz symmetry breaking and nocommutativity in theories of gravitation

2008 - 2010

M.Sc. in Physics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.
Title of M.Sc. thesis:

Dynamics of holographic superconductors

2005 - 2008

B.Sc. in Physics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.
Title of B.Sc. thesis:

Dirac Oscillator with minimal length

Professional Experience

2015 - current

Postdoctoral position at Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.

2015

Assistant teacher at Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.

2014

Assistant teacher at Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.

Languages

Portuguese

Native

English

Fluent (speaking, reading and writing)

Fields of Interest

  • General Relativity
  • Loop Quantum Gravity
  • AdS/CFT correspondence
  • Violations of Lorentz symmetry

Skills

Quantum Field Theory

Topological defects. Bose-Einstein condensation. Superconductivity. Gauge/Gravity duality.

General Relativity

Perturbative solutions of Einstein's equations. Initial Value Formulation. Black Hole solutions.

Nonlinear Physics

Percolation theory in complex networks. Dynamics of vorticity in planar systems.

Other skills

Programming languages

Computing frameworks

Publications

  1. Victor Santos, R.V. Maluf, C.A.S. Almeida, Quasinormal frequencies of self-dual black holes, Phys.Rev.D 93, 8, 084047 (2016)
    [DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.084047] [arXiv:1509.04306]
  2. Victor Santos, C.A.S. Silva, C.A.S. Almeida, A note on the fuzzy sphere area spectrum, black hole luminosity, and the quantum nature of spacetime, Europhys.Lett. 110 (2015)
    [DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/110/30003] [arXiv:1409.4498]
  3. Victor Santos, R.V. Maluf, C.A.S. Almeida, Thermodynamical properties of graphene in noncommutative phase-space, Annals Phys. 349 402-410 (2014)
    [DOI:10.1016/j.aop.2014.07.005] [arXiv:1401.8051]
  4. R.V. Maluf, Victor Santos, W.T. Cruz, C.A.S. Almeida, Matter-gravity scattering in the presence of spontaneous Lorentz violation, Phys.Rev. D 88 025005 (2013)
    [DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.025005] [arXiv:1304.2090]
  5. Victor Santos, C.A.S. Almeida, On Gravity localization under Lorentz Violation in warped scenario, Phys.Lett.B 718 1114-1118 (2013)
    [DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.045] [arXiv:1211.4542]
  6. J.E.G. Silva, Victor Santos, C.A.S. Almeida, Gravity localization in a string-cigar braneworld, Class.Quant.Grav. 30 025005 (2013)
    [DOI:10.1088/0264-9381/30/2/025005] [arXiv:1208.2364]

Scientific stays

2013 - 2014

Visiting Scholar, The Pennsylvania State University.
Subject: Inflationary attractors in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Conferences & Schools

2015

General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective, 7–12 June [link]

2014

Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology - Part II, 3–4 April [link]

2012

7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics, 16–21 April [link]

2010

5th ICTP-CAPES Latin-American String School, 3–14 December [link]

Oral presentations

2015

A note on the fuzzy sphere area spectrum, black hole luminosity, and the quantum nature of spacetime, at General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective

Honors and grants

2007 - 2008

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CNPq), Undergraduate fellowship

2008 - 2010

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CNPq), Master fellowship

2010 - 2014

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CNPq), PhD Grant

2014 - 2016

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES), Postdoctoral fellowship