Meet our team
We are an international group of researchers joined by a shared passion for geoscience and high-quality open research software.
Team members
The core team working across our research themes:
Leonardo Uieda (he/him)
- PI / Professor
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: uieda@usp.br
- ORCID: 0000-0001-6123-9515
- Website: www.leouieda.com
India Uppal (she/her)
- PhD student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Email: I.Uppal@liverpool.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3531-2656
- Project: Improving estimates of Antarctic geothermal heat flow from magnetic data
Gelson Ferreira Souza-Junior (he/him)
- PhD student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: gelson.ferreira@iag.usp.br
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5695-4239
- Project: Micropaleomagnetism: Combining magnetic microscopy and applied geophysics
Yago Moreira Castro (he/him)
- MSc student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: yagomcastro@usp.br
- ORCID: 0009-0003-3884-9675
- Project: Magali: An open-source software package for magnetic microscopy
Arthur Siqueira de Macêdo (he/him)
- MSc student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: arthursmacedo@usp.br
- ORCID: 0009-0006-5106-4356
- Project: Integration of airborne geophysics datasets with gradient-boosted equivalent sources on the sphere
Ellen Fernandes Marcos (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: ellenfernandes@usp.br
- Project: Quantifying the quality of data interpolation from potential methods by equivalent sources using block cross-validation
Gabriel Aparecido das Chagas Silva (he/him)
- Undergraduate student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: gabaparecidochagas@usp.br
- Project: Mesh refinement in the 3D inversion of potential-field data through the planting method
Collaborators
Research is never done in a vacuum! We are proud to collaborate with world-leading researchers:
Santiago Soler (he/him)
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
- Website: www.santisoler.com
Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr. (he/him)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6338-4086
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
Valéria C. F. Barbosa (she/her)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9767-6044
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
Ricardo I. F. Trindade (he/him)
- Professor
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9848-9550
Alumni
These are some of the people who passed through the lab and have since moved on (only those who have added themselves):
Santiago Soler (he/him)
- PhD student
- Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
- Project: Metodologías y herramientas computacionales para el procesamiento y modelado de datos gravimétricos
Laura Nicholls (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Project: An open-source Python implementation of the gravitational fields of ellipsoids
