RÉSUMÉ

   Personal Info:

   Name: Alex Ignácio da Silva

   Date of Birth: 01/07/1974

   Place of Birth: Jacarezinho - Paraná - Brazil

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Academic Background Technical Background International Experience Participation in Events Additional Information

 


Academic Background:

02/1992-12/1996: BSc. in Physics
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
Universidade Estadual de Campinas

03/1997-05/1999: MSc. in Astronomy
Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico
Universidade de São Paulo
Dissertation: "Linhas de Estrutura Fina em Absorção no Espectro de QSOs"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sueli M. M. Viegas

09/1999-02/2004: PhD. in Astronomy
Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico
Universidade de São Paulo
Thesis: "Sistemas em Absorção de QSOs e as Linhas de Estrutura Fina"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sueli M. M. Viegas

 


Technical Background:

- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, design patterns (GoF, MVC), UML modelling.
- Agile software development processes skills: test-driven development, continuous integration, pair programming.
- Main programming languages: Java, C++, SQL, C#, Fortran 90/95.
- Some current interests:
    - Eclipse platform and rich client applications framework.
    - aspect-oriented programming, AspectJ.
    - Java EE.

Certifications:
 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (score: 93%).

 


International Experience:

10-12/1995: Interchange Job (through IAESTE international)
Institut für Physik
TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Chemnitz - Germany

11/2000-02/2001: Specialization Trainning
Astronomy Department
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California - USA

 


Participation in Events:

3-7/08/1997: XXIIIth annual meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society
Title of presentation: "Densidade das Regiões das Linhas em Absorção dos QSOs"
Angra dos Reis - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

20-24/10/1997: Ist School of Observational Cosmology
Observatório Nacional and Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2-6/08/1998: XXIVth annual meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society
Title of presentation: "Linhas de Estrutura Fina nos Sistemas em Absorção de QSOs"
Barra Bonita - São Paulo - Brazil

6-11/08/1998: IXth Advanced School of Astrophysics (on "Stellar Formation")
Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico - Universidade de São Paulo
Barra Bonita - São Paulo - Brazil



Additional Information:

Idioms: English (basic knowledge of German, French, Spanish and Esperanto).

Other interests: sports: cycling, trekking, chess
             arts: music (violin)
             hobbies: tourism (knowing other cultures), idioms

Note: althought the PhD thesis was defended in the astronomy institute of University of São Paulo, it consisted in an interdisciplinary work encompassing also computer science. In this work we employed the tools of object-oriented programming and UML for use in complex scientific codes.

 

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