Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr.

Who is Waldyr Alves Rodrigues Jr.?

Waldyr Alves Rodrigues, Jr. was born at Araraquara, SP, Brazil on March 14, 1946. He obtained his B.Sc. in Physics in 1968 at the University of São Paulo, where he has been a research student of Mário Schenberg and became an Assistant Professor in 1969. He then moved to Torino, Italy where he did post-graduate studies at the Scuola di Perfezionamento in Fisica Nucleare and obtained a degree in theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1971. Later that year, he returned to Brazil and became an Associate Professor at the new Physics Institute of Campinas State University.

He worked there with Cesare M. G. Lattes on multiple particle production produced by collisions of very high energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere or with target atoms. During the seventies, he progressively moved his research interests to mathematical physics, and in 1981 he moved to the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation. There, he became a Full Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1986, until he retired in 1998; he continued to serve as a invited professor. He was the director of that Institute from 1994–1998, and also served as vice president for the Foundation for Development of UNICAMP from 1998–2000. He is currently Deputy Coordinator of the Clifford Algebras International Research Open Studies, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Emile Picard, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and also a member of the Scientific Council of the Center of Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science.