Staff

Bojan Marinkovic is an engineer of crystallography and mineralogy. He received his first degree in 1995 and his MSc degree in materials science in 1997, both from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He worked at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro as a research associate sisce 2010. In 2010, he joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro as an assistant professor. His principal research area is ceramic materials with a focus on synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of TiO2-based nanostructures, negative thermal expansion ceramics and nanocomposites with polymer matrices. He has a special interest in X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy techniques as materials characterization tools. He is a project leader of several research projects funding by industry and Brazilian government agencies and maintains international research collaboration with Dalhousie University, Canada, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Equador.

Fernando Rizzo holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Florida and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Professor at PUC-Rio, Researcher 1A of CNPq, and Scientist of Our State of FAPERJ. His areas of expertise are Physical Metallurgy and Phase Transformations. Other positions include Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds (England), Director of the Departmentof Materials Engineering at PUC-Rio and Dean of theTechnical and Scientific Centre of the same Institution. He was Deputy Scientific Director of FAPERJ and President of the Association of Mining, Metallurgy and Materials(ABM). He received the Commend of the National Order of Scientific Merit, is Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Pan American Academy of Engineering and Fellow of ASM International. He is currently Director of the Center for Strategic Studies and Management(CGEE).

Roberto R. de Avillez graduated as a metallurgical engineer in 1975 and got the Master in Materials Science in 1977, both in the Militar Institute of Engineering. His Ph.D. was in Metallurgy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981. His work has usually been related to the development of new inorganic materials, semiconductors, oxides and steels, with strong enphasis on modelling the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations, crystal structure modelling and characterization by x-ray diffraction. He is responsible for the Laboratory of X-Ray Diffraction in PUC-Rio.

Rodrigo Prioli is an Associate Professor of Physics from PUC-Rio.  Is
graduated from Universidade Federal Fluminense with a degree in Physics,
1992, received a Masters Degree in Physics by the Braziliam Center for
Physics Research, 1994 and a PhD in Physics following a sandwich PhD
program by the Braziliam Center for Physics Research and University of
Basel (Switzerland), 1998. His main areas of interest in Physics are
atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy, applied to nanotechnology,
nanolithography, nanotribology and nanoindentation.