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).
  • Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship awarded from 01.07.2007 to 31.08.2009 (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany). Academic host: Prof. Padma Kant Shukla.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Invitation Programme fellowship awarded from 01.01.2013 to 31.03.2013 (Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany). Academic host: Prof. Padma Kant Shukla.
  • Press news: Neutrino magnetohydrodynamics - the domains of plasma physics and particle physics meet in supernova explosions. Article by Richard J. Fitzgerald in Physics Today (11 January, 2016), about the paper here.
  • Invited plenary speaker (19th International Congress on Plasma Physics - ICPP 2018, Vancouver, Canada): Quantum Plasmas: Equation of State, Bohm Potential, Exchange Effects. 

  • Invited speaker (QHD: International Workshop on Quantum Hydrodynamics, 8-10 Sep 2020, Strasbourg, France): title to be defined (upcoming event). 

  • The work [F. Haas, K. A. Pascoal and J. T. Mendonça, Neutrino Magnetohydrodynamics. Phys. Plasmas 23, 012104 (2016)] was selected as one of the Top Theoretical Plasma Physics Papers published in Physics of Plasmas, period 2016-2017, section Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities.
  • Top Peer Reviewer award (Publons, 2020), with 317 verified referee reports for 44 journals. On January 2020, I'm the top referee (number 1) in UFRGS.
  • Physics of Plasmas Top Referee (2018).
  • Among the 2 % most influential researchers in the world according to the 2020 Stanford University  survey. See the S6-career-2019 Table in https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2 .  See also the UFRGS press release here: http://www.ufrgs.br/ufrgs/noticias/ufrgs-compoe-com-22-professores-o-ranking-dos-pesquisadores-mais-influentes-no-mundo .
  • Among the 2 % most influential researchers in the world according to the 2021 Stanford University  survey. See Table 1 in https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3 and the UFRGS press release here.  
  • 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.

Statistics: 2943 citations and a factor H = 23 (Web of Science, March 2020).

See also: my account in Google Scholar along with 4040 citations and a factor H = 27 (March 2020).

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)

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 ongoing 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). Number of reviews made: circa 50.

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 works which are not in their final form (which is in the journals).