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26/06/02

Marcelo Knobel

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Curriculum Vitae (short version)

Name: Marcelo Knobel

Date of birth: July 18, 1968

Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nacionality: Brasilian

E-mail: knobel@ifi.unicamp.br

HomePage: http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~knobel/

Present position: Associate Professor, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, (UNICAMP), Brazil

Academic Preparation:

1) Bachelor in Physics, Instituto de Física "Gleb Wataghin", Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 1986-1989.

2) Ph.D. in Physcis, Instituto de Física "Gleb Wataghin", Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 1990-1992. Title: "Estudo do Desenvolvimento de Materiais Nanocristalinos: Magnetismo e Estrutura" (Study of development of nanocrystalline materials). Supervised by Dra. Reiko Sato Turtelli. Approved with honors.

3) Post-doc stages: Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, Torino, Italy, 1993-1994. Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Madrid, Spain, 1994.

Languages:

Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English and Italian.

Recent Relevant Publications (taken from more than 120 papers published in international indexed journal

	M. Knobel and K.R. Pirota, “Giant Magnetoimpedance: Concepts and Recent Progress”, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 2002, to be published. (Review Article)
	P. Allia, M. Coisson, P. Tiberto, F. Vinai, M. Knobel, M.A. Novak and W.C. Nunes, “Granular Cu-Co alloys as interacting superparamagnets”, Phys. Rev. B 144420 (2001).
	· P. Panissod, M. Malinowska, E. Jedryka, M. Wojcik, S. Nadolski, M. Knobel and J.E. Schmidt, "Inhomogeneous Structure and Magnetic Properties of Granular Co₁₀Cu₉₀Alloys", Phys. Rev. B 63, 01408 (2001).
	· C. Gómez-Polo, M. Vázquez and M. Knobel, “Fourier Analysis of Giant Magnetoimpedance in Soft Magnetic Amorphous Wires: Relationship Between the Fundamental Harmonic and the Rotational Magnetization Process”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2) pp. 46-248 (2001).
	· F.C. Siqueira da Silva, M. Knobel, D.R. dos Santos and I.L. Torriani, "Controlling Fe nanocrystallization in amorphous Fe₈₆Zr₇Cu₁B₆ by linear varying current Joule heating", Appl. Phys. Lett. 77 (9) pp. 1375-1377 (2000).
	· L.C. Sampaio Lima, E.H.C.P. Sinnecker, G.C. Cernichiaro, M. Knobel, J. Velázquez and M. Vázquez, "Magnetic Microwires as Macrospins in Long-Range Dipole-Dipole Interaction", Phys. Rev. B 61, 8976 (2000).
	· M. Knobel, “Os Superpoderes dos Nanomagnetos” (the superpower of nanomagnets), Ciência Hoje, april 2000. (in portuguese).
	· P. Allia, M. Coisson, M. Knobel, P. Tiberto and F. Vinai, "Magnetic Hysteresis Based on Dipolar Interactions in Granular Magnetic Systems", Phys. Rev. B 60 (17), pp. 12207-12218 (1999).
	· K.R. Pirota, L. Kraus, M. Knobel, P.G. Pagliuso and C. Rettori , “Angular Dependence of Giant Magnetoimpedance in a CoFeSiB Amorphous Ribbon”, Phys. Rev. B 60 (9), pp. 6685-6691 (1999).
	· E.F. Ferrari, F.C.S. da Silva and M. Knobel, “Theory of Giant Magnetoresistance in Granular Solids”, Phys. Rev. B 59 (13), pp. 8412-8415 (1999).
	· M. Knobel, “Giant Magnetoimpedance in Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Materials”, J. de Physique IV PR2, pp. 213-220 (1998).
	· A.D.C. Viegas, J. Geshev, L.S. Dorneles, J.E. Schmidt and M. Knobel, “Influence of Interactions on Magnetoresistance in Granular Cu₉₀Co₁₀”, J. Appl. Phys. 82 (6), 3047-3053 (1997).

Some Numbers

(1) publications in International Journals with selective editorial policy: 122; (2)Book Chapters: 2; (3) Master Thesis supervision: 01; (5) Ph.D. Thesis Supervision: 02.

Students under supervision (present)

I. Ph.D.

I.1. Kléber Roberto Pirota, “Giant Magnetoimpedance in amorphous wires and ribbons”, since march 1998.

I.2. Juliano Casagrande Denardin, “Giant Magnetotransport in Granular Samples”, since august 1998.

I.3. Ana Lúcia Brandl, “Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Materials”, since May 2000.

I.4. José Gerivaldo dos Santos Duque, “Linear and non-linear magnetoimpedance in amorphous microwires” since April 2001.

II. M.Sc.

II.1. Hugo Bonette Carvalho, "Development of a Kerr effect magnetometer", since march 2000.

Professional memberships:

1. Member of Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF- Brazilian Physical Society).

2. Member of American Physical Society (APS).

3. Member of Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC – Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science)

4. Founder member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais (SBPMat – Materials Research Society of Brazil)

Research lines:

Magnetic and transport properties of artifially grown magnetic materials; Giant magnetoresistance in granular films; Giant Magnetoimpedance in amorphous and nanocrystalline wires and ribbons; Joule heating in magnetic materials.

Positions as Coordinator

Coordinator of the Materials and Low Temperature Laboratory, Physics Institute, UNICAMP, since )ctober 1999.

Undergraduate program co-chair of the Physics Institute, UNICAMP, since October 2000.

Teaching activities in the last 02 years

1st Semester 2000: Undergraduate level – Teacher of Structure of Matter I (F589), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

2nd Semester 2000: Graduate level – Introduction to Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (FI204), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

1st Semester 2001: Undergraduate level – Teacher of Physics Lab I (F129), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

2nd Semester 2001: Undergraduate level – Teacher of Seminars about the Profission II (FM002). Graduate level: Responsable for the Program of Teaching Assitants I and II.

Activities related to publications

	Editor of the section “Radar da Ciência” (science radar) of the Electronic Magazine “ComCiência” (http://www.comciencia.br), since August 2000 (in portuguese).
	Editor of the “Portal da Ciência” (science portal – http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~knobel/PortaldaCiencia/), under development (in portuguese).
	Associate Editor of the Journal of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Materials, Trans Tech Publications (http://www.scientific.net).
	Referee of the following International Journals:

o Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

o IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

o Journal of Applied Physics.

o Applied Physics Letters.

o Physical Review B.

o Physical Review Letters.

o Physics Letters A.

o Physica B.

o J. Non-Cryst. Solids.

o Mater. Sci. Forum.

Campinas, January 10th, 2002

Marcelo Knobel

Last Update 26/06/02