Victor Paulo Barros Gonçalves

Victor Paulo Barros Gonçalves, also known as Victor PBG, is a Full Professor in Physics at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil, and works in the field of theoretical nuclear physics and teaches various undergraduate and graduate courses.

Prof. Goncavles research interests are in high-energy nuclear physics, the physics of strong interactions and its implications in neutrino and cosmic ray physics. He has over 150 peer–reviewed publications and has supervised several students at different levels, as well as postdoctoral researchers. He is currently the leader of the High and Medium Energies group at UFPel.

He completed his PhD in Physics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2000. He recently served as the Coordinator of the Graduate Studies in Physics, and has also been the Chair of the Physics and Mathematics Institute at UFPel. In the academic year 2015-2016 during a sabbatical leave, he was a visiting researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

Victor is married with Sandra Costa Valle and has two children, Pedro Victor Gonçalves (PVic) and Valentina V. Gonçalves

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