The NanoMat Research Group is co-led by Professors Raphael Longuinhos and Jenaina Ribeiro Soares, who coordinate the “Materials Simulation Group” and the “Theoretical and Applied Spectroscopy Group”, respectively—both officially registered with the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

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With a multidisciplinary team, NanoMat develops projects ranging from scientific and educational instrumentation to fundamental research on the structure and properties of materials, in close collaboration with external researchers.​

Founders

Prof. Raphael Longuinhos Monteiro Lobato

raphael.lobato@ufla.br

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Prof. Jenaina Ribeiro Soares
jenaina.soares@ufla.br
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He is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil. His research interests are in condensed matter physics, including first-principles calculations, prediction of novel materials, lattice stability and dynamics, and the optical, magnetic, vibrational, and electronic properties of nanostructures, as well as molecular assemblies on surfaces.

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He also works in scientific computing, focusing on the configuration and optimization of high-performance computing environments.

He holds a B.Sc. in Physics (2008), an M.Sc. in Physics (2011), and a Ph.D. in Physics (2014) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, including a doctoral research period at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (2013–2014).

She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Brazil, and a member of the Graduate Program in Physics at UFLA. She is also the coordinator of the CNPq-registered research group “Theoretical and Applied Spectroscopy Group”.

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She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, including a doctoral research period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, focused on Raman spectroscopy of nanostructured carbon materials and transition metal dichalcogenides.

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Her research interests include group theory applied to two-dimensional materials, Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) instrumentation and characterization, as well as carbon-based materials such as biochar and anthropogenic soils.

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She also holds an M.Sc. in Physics from UFMG, where she applied Raman spectroscopy to the study of carbonaceous materials in Amazonian anthropogenic soils (Terra Preta), and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), with research on ferromagnetic resonance in thin iron films and magnetostrictive effects.