Curriculum Vitae

I have worked on scientific research in the field of cosmology at the: Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (IF-USP); Astronomy Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (IAG-USP); Department of Physics & Astronomy of University College London (UCL); and Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Pennsylvania (Upenn).

  • Academic formation

    2014 - 2019: Post-doc at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scholarship by FAPESP.

    2014 - 2015: Post-doc at the University College London, United Kingdom. Scholarship by FAPESP.

    2009 - 2014: Ph.D. in physics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scholarship by FAPESP.

    2011 - 2012: Research scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Scholarship by CAPES.

    2005 - 2008: B.A. in physics education at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2005 - 2007: M.Sc. in physics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scholarship by FAPESP.

    2002 - 2003: Research fellow at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Scholarship by CNPq.

    2001 - 2004: B.S. in physics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Teaching experience

    2019: Extracurricular class on cosmology for the elementary school Móbile, São Paulo, Brazil.

    2010: Teaching assistant for "Thermodynamics" at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2009: Teaching assistant for "Physics II" at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2008 - 2009: High school physics teacher at Bem Comum NGO, Brazil.

    2008 - 2009: Private tutoring in physics and mathematics.

    2006 & 2007: High school project evaluation committee member in the field of physics & technology at the Oswald de Andrade high school, Brazil.

    2006: Teaching assistant for "Physics I" at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2004: Teaching assistant for "Physics V" at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Publications

    2019: Xavier, Costa-Duarte, Balaquera-Antolínez & Bilicki. All-sky angular power spectra from cleaned WISExSuperCOSMOS galaxy number counts. Accepted by Journal of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics.

    2019: Mendes de Oliveira et al. The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies and redshifts with 12 optical filters. Accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

    2019: Xavier. Largest scales from the largest galaxy surveys: the pseudo Karhunen-Loève method. Published on Journal of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics Vol. 2019(04), p. 037.

    2019: Jiménez-Teja et al. J-PLUS: Analysis of the intracluster light in the Coma cluster. Published on Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 622, p. A183.

    2019: Cenarro et al. J-PLUS: the Javalambre photometric local universe survey. Published on Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 622, p. A176.

    2019: Loureiro et al. Cosmological measurements from angular power spectra analysis of BOSS DR12 tomography. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 485, p. 326.

    2019: Costa et al. J-PAS: forecasts on interacting dark energy from baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 488, p. 78.

    2019: Loureiro et al. Upper Bound of Neutrino Masses from Combined Cosmological Observations and Particle Physics Experiments. Published on Physical Review Letters Vol. 123, p. 081301.

    2018: Novaes, Bernui, Xavier & Marques. Tomographic local 2D analyses of the WISExSuperCOSMOS all-sky galaxy catalogue. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 478, p. 3253.

    2018: de Carvalho, Bernui, Carvalho, Novaes & Xavier. Angular Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measure at z = 2.225 from the SDSS quasar survey. Published on Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Vol. (04)2018, p. 064.

    2018: Bengaly Jr., Novaes, Xavier, Bilicki, Bernui & Alcaniz. The dipole anisotropy of WISE x SuperCOSMOS number counts. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Vol. 475, p. L106.

    2017: Bengaly Jr., Bernui, Alcaniz, Xavier & Novaes. Is there evidence for anomalous dipole anisotropy in the large-scale structure? Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 464, p. 768.

    2016: Xavier et. al. Improving lognormal models for cosmological fields. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 459, p. 3693.

    2014: Benitez et. al. J-PAS: The Javalambre Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey. Published on arXiv pre-print 1403.5237.

    2014: Xavier et. al. Photometric type Ia supernova surveys in narrow band filters. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 444, p. 2313.

    2013: Xavier et. al. Properties of type Ia supernovae inside rich galaxy clusters. Published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 434, p. 1443.

    2010: Abramo, Reimberg & Xavier. CMB in a box: Causal structure and the Fourier-Bessel expansion. Published on Physical Review D, Vol. 82, p. 043510.

    2007: Abramo & Xavier. Real space tomography of the primordial Universe with cluster polarization. Published on Physical Review D, Vol. 75, p. 101302.

    Participation in examiners committee

    2016: At the international phase of the XXI International Symposium of undergraduate research fellows, São Paulo, Brazil.

    2016: At the first phase of the XXI International Symposium of undergraduate research fellows, São Paulo, Brazil.

    Public outreach

    2017 - 2018: Organizer of the talk series "Astronomia ao meio dia", São Paulo, Brazil.

    Schools, conferences & meetings

    2019: JSPS-FAPESP Workshop on dark energy, dark matter, and galaxies, São Paulo, Brazil. Talk given: Stellar systematics in photometric galaxy surveys and applications to WISExSuperCOSMOS catalog.

    2018: South American Workshop on Cosmology in the LSST Era, São Paulo, Brazil. Talk given: Dealing with stellar contamination and anisotropic selection effects on large photometric surveys.

    2018: 6th INPE advanced school on astrophysics: 21cm cosmology in the 21st century, São José dos Campos, Brazil.

    2017: XLI annual meeting of the Brazilian Astronomical Society, São Paulo, Brazil. Poster presented: Beyond lognormal models of cosmological fields: the FLASK code.

    2016: PFS meeting, Baltimore, USA.

    2016: XV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, Cartagena, Colombia. Poster presented: Beyond lognormal models of cosmological fields: the FLASK code.

    2016: IV Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Poster presented: Beyond lognormal models of cosmological fields: the FLASK code.

    2016: Meeting on Fundamental Cosmology, Barcelona, Spain. Poster presented: Beyond lognormal models of cosmological fields: the FLASK code.

    2015: Theoretical and Observational Progress on Large-scale Structure of the Universe, Munich, Germany. Poster presented: Full sky realisations of correlated lognormal fields.

    2015: EUCLID meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland. Talk given: Simulations for verifying 2-pt estimators.

    2015: The Olympian Symposium: Cosmology and the Epoch of Reionization, Katerini, Greece. Posters presented: Full sky realisations of correlated lognormal fields and Photometric supernova surveys in narrow band filters.

    2015: 10th J-PAS meeting, Paraty, Brazil. Talk given: Full-sky lognormal multi-field simulations.

    2014: 9th J-PAS meeting, Teruel, Spain.

    2014: III Jaime Tiomno School of Cosmology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    2014: 8th J-PAS meeting, Florianopolis, Brazil.

    2013: XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, Florianopolis, Brazil. Poster presented: Properties of type Ia supernovae inside rich galaxy clusters.

    2013: 7th J-PAS meeting, Teruel, Spain. Talk given: Properties of type Ia supernovae inside rich galaxy clusters.

    2013: 6th J-PAS meeting, Valencia, Spain. Talk given: The supernova simulations and cosmological constraints.

    2013: USP Conference on Cosmology, Large Scale Structure and First Objects, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Poster presented: J-PAS: supernova survey with narrow band filters.

    2012: ICTP Summer School on Cosmology, Trieste, Italy.

    2012: ICTP Workshop on Large Scale Structure, Trieste, Italy.

    2012: 5th J-PAS meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2012: Science with LSST: A Brazilian/US joint workshop, Campos do Jordao, Brazil. Poster presented: J-PAS: supernova survey with narrow band filters.

    2012: 4th J-PAS meeting, Madrid, Spain. Talk Given: J-PAS borders and the SN survey.

    2011: DES collaboration meeting, Philadelphia, USA. Talk given: The JPAS Supernova Survey Simulation.

    2011: 3rd J-PAS meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Talk given: The J-PAS Supernova Survey simulations.

    2010: I Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    2009: III INPE Advanced Course on Astrophysics: Astrostatistics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.

    2009: II Workshop Challenges of New Physics in Space, Campos do Jordao, Brazil.

    2009: XIV Cycle of Special Courses of the National Observatory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    2007: Second SCS PIRE summer school on large scale structure-CMB connection, Santiago, Chile.

    2007: VI Workshop Nova fisica no espaço, Campos do Jordao, Brazil. Poster presented: Reconstruction of primordial perturbations from CMB polarization.

    2005: First INPE advanced course: A Roadmap for Cosmology. Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.

    Participation in Managing Committees

    2010 - 2011: Graduate students representative at the Council of the Experimental Physics Department of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2010 - 2011:Graduate students representative at the Assembly of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    2005 - 2006: Graduate students representative at the Graduate Courses Committee of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo.

    2002 - 2004: Undergraduate students representative at the Assembly of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo.

    2002 - 2004: Undergraduate students representative at the Library Committee of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo.

    2003 - 2004: Student’s Assembly director at CEFISMA physics student’s assembly of the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  • Quote of the day

    "Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. New and unsuspected phenomena are, however, repeatedly uncovered by scientific research, and radical new theories have again and again been invented by scientists. History even suggests that the scientific enterprise has developed a uniquely powerful technique for producing surprises of this sort. If this characteristic of science is to be reconciled with what has already been said, then research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change."

    — Thomas S. Kuhn
    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), 52.