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    • Luiz C. B. da Silva

      Title: Lecturer

      Email: lbarbosadasilva001@dundee.ac.uk

    • Professional Experience

        (Oct/2018-Oct/2023) Postdoctoral Researcher
        Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

        (Nov/2018–Jul/2020) Teaching Assistant
        Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

        (Mar/2017–Jun/2018) Temporary Lecturer (Professor Substituto)
        Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife/PE, Brazil.

        (Mar/2012–Jun/2015) E-learning Tutor (Tutor a Distância)
        Department of Mathematics, UFPE, Recife/PE, Brazil.

    • Research Specialization

      Dr Luiz da Silva researches Differential Geometry and uses it to understand the physical world around us. He has research experience in submanifold theory in Riemannian and non-Riemannian geometries. In the applications to Soft Matter Physics, he has contributed to the characterization of geometric frustration in three-dimensional liquid crystals and the geometry of biological membranes containing many interacting helical motifs.