Sérgio F. Novaes

• Sergio.Novaes@cern.ch
  • NCC, São Paulo, Brazil, +55 (11) 98115-2100
  • CERN 40-2-B15, Geneva, Switzerland, +41 (22) 766-8138

Positions

• Full Professor at the São Paulo State University (Unesp).
• B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP).
• Post-doctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA).
• Visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA).
• Visiting researcher at the University of Valencia (Spain).
• Visiting researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago, USA).
• Visiting researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Research and Leadership

• Leader of the São Paulo group of the D0 Collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).
• Member of the CMS Collaboration of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
• Leader of the CMS group in São Paulo, the São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE).
• Principal Investigator of the Thematic Projects from the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp) since 2003
• He and his team implemented GridUnesp, the first Campus Grid in Latin America
• He is currently Scientific Director of the Center for Scientific Computing at Unesp.
• He was PI of several R&D projects with the private sector (Padtec, Intel, Huawei, etc.):
  • The Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC),
  • The Center of Excellence in Machine Learning
  • Development of Kytos, a new SDN controller open source, with the support of Huawei.
• He and his team broke three times the record for data transmission between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
• Scientific Coordinator (1990-1996) and Deputy Director (1996-1999) of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Unesp.
• Co-founded the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

Memberships

• Member of the International Committee for Future Accelerators , ICFA (2005-2007),
• Brazilian representative on the Particles and Fields Commission (C11) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP (2011-2021).
• Brazilian representative on the Executive Board of the International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology , IDPASC (2022-).
• Representative Elected of the States of Region B (OSB) made up of 20 countries of the CMS Collaboration (2021-2023).
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the National High Energy Physics Network, Renafae (2008-2018).
• Member of the Steering Committee of the INCT for High Energy Physics CERN-Brazil (2023-),
• Principal Investigator and Coordinator of Education and Knowledge Diffusion at the Center for Applied Research Data Science for the Smart Industry, CDI2 (2024-),
• Member of the Management Committee of the Scientific Supercomputing Center of the State of São Paulo, C3SP (2024-).
• Appointed by the Minister of Science and Technology to form the task force that began negotiations for Brazil to become an Associate Member of CERN.
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the São Paulo Research Support Foundation, Fapesp (1997-2000)
• National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq (2009-2012),

Supervision and Thesis Assessment

• Referee of 25 contracts of permanent positions or promotions
• Referee of 18 Ph.D. theses 16 Master Dissertations
• Supervised 5 Master and 8 Ph.D. students and 8 Pos-doctoral Fellows

Outreach Activities

• The "Elementary Structure of Matter: A Poster in each School", which distributed posters to all 25,000 high schools in Brazil
• The "SPRACE Game" which was translated into English and German by the Austrian Academy of Science.
• The app "The Particle", developed by Frank Close, and translated and distributed in Portuguese

International Agreements

• USA (Madison, MIT and Texas Tech),
• United Kingdom (Edinburgh, Southampton and Imperial College),
• Portugal (IST, Lisbon).

-- novaes - 2024-04-17