Antonio Helio de Castro Neto is a Brazilian-born

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. He is the founder and director of the

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(previously known as the Graphene Research Centre) at the

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. He is a condensed matter theorist known for his work in the theory of

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, magnets, superconductors,

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

and two-dimensional materials. He is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Materials Science Engineering, and Physics and a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.https://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/ece/staff/castro-neto-antonio-helio/ He was elected as a fellow of the

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in 2003. In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the

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Education

In 1984, Castro Neto attended the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). In Campinas, he completed his undergraduate and

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degree in physics under Amir O. Caldeira. In 1991, he moved to the

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where he obtained his

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degree at the

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under the supervision of Eduardo Fradkin. His PhD thesis dealt with the understanding and description of the lowest energy excitations of Fermi liquids.

Career

After graduation in 1994, he joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics (currently,

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) at the

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. There he studied the electronic properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures under Matthew Fisher. In 1995, he moved to the

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as an assistant professor. In 2000, he moved to

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as a professor of physics. Castro Neto published on theoretical aspects of graphene such as the effect of vacancies in the electronic properties ; the electronic properties of bilayer graphene; superconductivity;

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; Coulomb blockade in graphene mesoscopic structures; atomic collapse at charge impurities; localized magnetic states; gap opening in biased bilayers; strain engineering; and impurity induced spin-orbit effect. In 2016, Thomson Reuters recognized Castro Neto as among the top 1% of researchers in physics. He was also recognized by

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from 2017 to 2019. His work has been cited more than 101,602 times, and he has an

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of 122. In 2008, he moved to the National University of Singapore, starting the Graphene Research Centre (GRC) in 2010 with facilities for the synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of graphene devices. In 2014, the GRC was expanded by a grant of the National Research Foundation of Singapore to explore other 2D materials beyond graphene and their heterostructures with the creation of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials. Castro Neto has started 4 companies in Singapore: 2D Materials; MADE Advanced Materials, Graphene Watts and UrbaX.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Castro Neto, Antonio H. Living people Grainger College of Engineering alumni 20th-century Brazilian physicists 21st-century Brazilian physicists People from Paranaguá 1964 births Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States Brazilian expatriates in Singapore State University of Campinas alumni Boston University faculty Brazilian expatriates in the United States University of California, Riverside faculty