Space Weather · Radiation Belt Physics

Research

Physical and statistical modeling of particle dynamics in planetary radiation belts, and its application to operational space weather forecasting — currently Director of Space and Atmospheric Sciences at INPE.

Research areas

What I study

Four connected fronts: radiation belt physics at Earth and Saturn, geomagnetically induced currents, and machine learning applications in geophysics.
CNPq · Brazil

Geomagnetically induced currents

High time-resolution study of GICs across Brazilian territory, and how particle precipitation in the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly drives ground-level geomagnetic disturbances.

Van Allen Probes · RBSP

Wave-particle interactions in Earth's radiation belts

ULF and EMIC wave contributions to relativistic electron flux dynamics in the outer Van Allen belt, from doctoral work through ongoing postdoctoral research.

Cassini · MIMI

Radiation belt dynamics at Saturn

Extending radial-diffusion and wave-particle scattering methods developed for Earth to Saturn's radiation belts, using Earth as a physical prototype.

UNICAMP · Petrobras

Machine learning for rock physics

Data augmentation and machine learning methods to improve rock-physics models and seismic inversion from well-log data.

Publications

Articles & preprints

31 peer-reviewed articles, synced from ORCID at build time · full record also on Lattes.