Reily Rocha Alexandre

Alexandre Reily Rocha is an assistant professor at the Insituto de Física Teórica (IFT), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil. In 2007 he obtained a PhD in physics from the Trinity College Dublin, TCD, Dublin, Ireland. At TCD he developed one of the most important computational codes for simulating electronic transport in nanoscopic systems. In 2012 he moved to UNESP, which hosts a branch of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR). Since 2014 he has been an affiliate member of ICTP-SAIFR and also a Simons Associate of ICTP-Trieste. In 2016, Reily Rocha spent one year at the Deparment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, as a visiting scholar. He is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society, and of the American Physical Society. In addition, he was elected as an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), a Simons Associate of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, and an affiliate member of the Academy of Science for the State of São Paulo.