Luiz Davidovich
Brazil
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| Biography | | Professor Davidovich was educated at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro and the University of Rochester where he obtained his PhD in 1975. He is currently Full Professor of Physics at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has held various Visiting Scientist positions in France, Germany, the USA and the UK. His interests cover quantum optics and quantum information. His research has focused on: the emergence of the classical world from the quantum substrate; quantum information; laser theory; and cavity quantum electrodynamics. He was awarded the Grand Cross of National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil, in 2000, and the TWAS Physics Prize in 2001. He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1996) and of the US National Academy of Sciences (2006). |
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