Main research fields: theoretical plasma physics, specially quantum plasmas, neutrino-plasma interactions and nonlinear waves in high-field plasmas; integrable dynamical systems; symmetry methods for differential equations; generalized Hamiltonian systems; Ermakov systems; Bose-Einstein condensates.

Also consider: metal cluster physics, surface waves in plasma, complex plasma, stochastic quantization, popularization of science, philosophy etc.

Awards and recognitions:

  • Best lecture from a young scientist from the developing countries (International Workshop on Frontiers of Plasma Physics, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2006).
  • The work [F. Haas, Electron Holes in a Kappa Distribution Background with Singularities. Phys. Plasmas 28, 072110 (2021)] was selected as one of the Editor's Picks published in Physics of Plasmas, July 2021. 
  • Invited speaker (Physics/Theory Colloquium Series 2020/2021, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA): Foundations of Quantum Magnetohydrodynamics. 
  • Alexander von Humboldt Renewed Research Stay fellowship awarded from 01.12.2021 to 31.01.2022 (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany). Academic host: Prof. Horst Fichtner.
  • Have been member of the Basic Plasma Physics committee of the 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (Nagoya, Japan, 2023). Complete Basic Program Committee: Sudeep Bhattacharjee (Chair, IIT-Kanpur), Takuma Yamada (Vice chair, Kyushu U.), Zhibin Guo (PKU), Fernando Haas (Vice chair, UFRGS), Tito Mendonca (U. Lisbon), Yan Feng (Vice chair, Soochow U.), R. Ganesh (IPR), T-H Watanabe (Vice chair, Nagoya U.), Xueqiao Xu (LLNL), Izumi Murakami (Vice chair, NIFS), Cormac Corr (ANU), M. Nishiura (Vice, NIFS), Choongki Sung (KAIST), Kazunori Takahashi (Vice, Tohoku U.), Debaprasad Sahu (IIT-Delhi).

Statistics: 3787 citations and a factor H = 27 (Web of Science, August 2023).

See also: my account in Google Scholar along with 5111 citations and a factor H = 31 (August 2023).

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-6877

Researcher-ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-7166-2016

Brief CV

Lattes CV (in Portuguese)

Collaborators in publications:

  • Prof. Antoine-Claude Bret (Universidad Castilla-la Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain)
  • Prof. Gert Brodin (Umea Universitet, Umea, Sweden)
  • Prof. Bengt Eliasson (Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Profs. Paul-Antoine Hervieux and Giovanni Manfredi (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
  • Prof. Ioannis Kourakis (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
  • Prof. Shahzad Mahmood (PINSTECH, Islamabad, Pakistan)
  • Prof. Mattias Marklund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  • Prof. José Tito Mendonça (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Prof. Padma Kant Shukla (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
P.S.: the above is not a complete list. 


Research experience

  • Extended appointment: Ruhr Universität Bochum, Theoretical Physics IV, Bochum, Germany (Dec/2021-Aug/2022). Project Solar Wind Electrostatic Solitary Waves in Superthermal Plasmas described by Generalized kappa Distributions. Sponsorship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), through an Alexander von Humboldt Renewed Research Stay fellowship. In the group of Prof. Horst Fichtner.
  • Partnership in the European Union multilateral research project Complex ideal and non-ideal quantum plasmas (2014-2018) involving Queen's University Belfast (UK), Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal), Chalmers Institute of Technology (Sweden), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil).
  • Extended appointment: Visiting Research Fellow at the Queen's University Belfast, Centre for Plasma Physics, Belfast, UK (Jan/2015). Project Nonlinear dynamics of quantum plasmas. Sponsorship: IRSES grant no. 612506 (European Union). In the group of Prof. Ioannis Kourakis.
  • Extended appointment: Ruhr Universität Bochum, Theoretical Physics IV, Bochum, Germany (Jan-Mar/2013). Project Fundamental new advances in quantum plasma physics. Sponsorship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), through an Alexander von Humboldt Invitation Programme fellowship. In the group of Profs. Padma Kant Shukla and Bengt Eliasson.
  • Extended appointment: Umea Universitet, Theoretical Physics Department, Umea, Sweden (2009/2). Project: Quantum plasmas and the quantum vacuum. Sponsorship: European Research Council starting grant awarded to Prof. Mattias Marklund. In the group of Profs. Mattias Marklund and Gert Brodin.
  • Post-doctoral research fellowship: Ruhr Universität Bochum, Theoretical Physics IV, Bochum, Germany (2007/2-2009-1). Project: Some perspectives in quantum plasmas. Sponsorship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). In the group of Profs. Padma Kant Shukla and Bengt Eliasson.
  • Visiting professor at the National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Petrópolis, Brazil (2001-2003). Project: Transport models for quantum plasmas. Sponsorship: CNPq - National Council for the Scientific and Technologic Development  (Brazil). In the group of Prof. Renato Portugal.
  • Post-doctoral research fellowship: Université Henri Poincaré, Laboratoire de Physique des Millieux Continues et Applications, Nancy, France (2000). Project: Quantum transport in plasmas: theory and numerical simulations. Sponsorship: CNPq - National Council for the Scientific and Technologic Development (Brazil). In the group of Prof. Giovanni Manfredi. 
  • Mathematical Reviews: member of the reviewers’ staff of the Mathematical Reviews database (American Mathematical Society / Mathscinet). 

Book: F. Haas, Quantum plasmas: an hydrodynamic approach (Springer, New York, 2011).

PhD thesis: Generalized Ermakov systems, symmetries and exact invariants. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1998. [In portuguese]

MSc dissertation: Poisson formulations for dynamical systems. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1994. [In portuguese]

  • The links for publications usually contain freely available works which are not in their final form (which is in the journals).


 

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