Alvaro Ferraz

Biography

Graduated in Physics from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1975), Master in Physics from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1976) and DPhil. in Physics - University of Oxford (1980). He is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He works in theoretical condensed matter physics, with emphasis on strongly correlated electronic systems such as high-temperature superconductors, low-dimensional systems and lightly doped antiferromagnets.

Research Interest

Strongly Interacting Electrons Strongly interacting electrons are directly responsible for a variety of intriguing physical properties ranging from high temperature superconductivity and quantum antiferromagnetism to correlation induced metal-insulator transitions. One key ingredient for the understanding of these phenomena is the Fermi surface (FS). We investigate how this FS evolves as a function of electron-electron interaction in low dimensional systems, in high temperature superconductors and in other non-Fermi liquid states.