Research groups

Listed below are the research groups officially established in the Department of Physics and active in PPGF. In parentheses, the year when each group was founded is presented, followed by the participating researchers; PPGF registered professors are identified with an asterisk (*) immediately after their name.

Grupo LiAt - Light-Atom Group (2017) - Celso Jorge Villas-Boas (*), Francisco Ednilson Alves dos Santos (*), Raul Celistrino Teixeira, Rodrigo Figueiredo Shiozaki, Romain Bachelard (*). Website:  https://www.light-atom.ufscar.br

NanOLab (2006) – Adenilson José Chiquito(*)

Group of Supercondutivity and Magnetism (1989) – Adilson J. A. de Oliveira(*), Alexandre Gualdi(*), Fabiano Colauto(*), Maycon Motta, Wilson Aires Ortiz(*)

Group of Optical spectroscopy and Raman scaterring (1996) – Ariano de Giovani Rodrigues(*), Fabio Ferri(*), Paulo Sergio Pizani(*) 

Group of Materials and devices  (2002) - Fernando M. Araujo-Moreira(*), Claudio A. Cardoso(*), Ignez Caracelli(*) 

Group of Ferroic  Materials  (1987) – José Antonio Eiras(*), Ducinei Garcia(*), Fabio Luis Zabotto, Flavio Paulo Milton, Diego Seiti, Luiz Antonio Bássora 

Group of Optoelectronics and Magneto-optics (1998) - Yara Galvao Gobato(*), Helder Vinicius Avanço Galeti(*), Marcio Peron Franco Godoy(*), José Carlos Rossi 

Groups of Symmetries, Cosmology, and Astroparticles (2008) – Alex Eduardo de Bernardini(*), Javier Fernando Ramos Caro(*), Raphael Santarelli, Alberto Saa, Roldão da Rocha Jr. 

Group of Quantum Optics and Quantum information (1996) - Salomon S. Mizhrai, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas(*) 

Fundamental Physics Group (2016) – Gustavo Garcia Rigolin(*), Giuliano Augustus Pavan Ribeiro(*) 

Group of Optical, Vibrational, and Spin Properties and Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures  (2014) - Emanuel Fernandes de Lima, Gilmar Eugenio Marques(*), Lara Fernandes dos Santos Lavelli, Leonardo Dias de Souza, Leonardo Kleber Castelano(*), Luiz Gustavo Esmenard Arruda, Marcio Daldin Teodoro(*), Victor Lopez Richard(*), Vivaldo Lopes Oliveira Neto(*) 

Group of Advanced Functional Materials/Laboratory of Mechanical Spectroscopy (2014) - Paulo Sergio da Silva Junior(*), Michel Venet Zambrano(*), Lílian Menezes de Jesus(*), Jean-Claude M’Peko, Yonny Romanguera-Barcelay, Javier Andres Muñoz Chaves, Paulo Wilmar Barbosa Marques. Website:  https://www.mafa.ufscar.br