People

If you’re interested in joining our lab as a student or postdoc, get in touch. We are constantly looking for inspiring people who could help us steer Physics, Neuroscience and its related disciplines into progress.

Principal investigator

Mauricio Girardi-Schappo (PhD in Physics)

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2010.

Postdoctoral researchers

Tawan T. A. Carvalho (PhD in Physics)

Funded by INCT Comp-Neuro (CNPq) -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2026.
Project: Coding in neural networks and data analysis of place field data.

Students

Constantino Francisco Vasconcelos (MSc in Physics)

PhD student -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2022.
Project: Studying the input sensitivity in mean-field generalized Ising with Glauber dynamics.

Denis Domeniconi Caprioti

Undergrad in Physics -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2025.
Project: Studying map-based neuronal dynamics and place cells, and stimulus-response laws.

Henrique Lima Schweitzer (B.S. in Physics)

Master's -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2026.
Project: Modeling eye tracking and its relation to psychiatrical parameters; whole-brain modeling of epileptic patients.
Shared with: Prof. Rodrigo P. Rocha

Matheus Haas

Undergrad in Automation Engineering (PIBIC) -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2023.
Project: Studying random walks to mimic animal behavior.

Collaborators

André Longtin (PhD in Physics)

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Active from: 2019.

Leonard Maler (PhD in Brain Sciences)

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Active from: 2019.

Marcelo H. R. Tragtenberg (PhD in Physics)

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2010.

Osame Kinouchi (PhD in Physics)

Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Active from: 2010.

Rodrigo P. Rocha (PhD in Physics)

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2018.

Alumni

Bianca Luise Paulino (B.S. in Physics)

Master's -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2024. until: 2024.
Project: Proposing models for the development of place fields in the mammals' Dentate Gyrus.

Camile Mocellin

Undergrad in Physics -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2026. until: 2026.
Project: Rotation student interested in brain modeling.

Daniel Fontes Gomes

Undergrad in Physics -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2024. until: 2025.
Project: Studying map-based neuronal dynamics and place cells.

Patrick A. Morelo (PhD in Physics)

PhD (completed) -- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Active from: 2015. until: 2024.
Project: Characterizing the bifurcations leading to disrupted membrane potential behavior in heart cells.
Shared with: Marcelo Tragtenberg (main supervisor, UFSC)

Sue L. Rhâmidda (PhD in Applied Physics)

PhD (completed) -- Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Active from: 2022. until: 2025.
Project: Proposing a new self-organization meachnism to drive a system toward the edge of a synchronization transition.
Shared with: Osame Kinouchi (main supervisor, USP-RP)