Career Profile

I am a particle physicist and PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, researching solar neutrino detection with liquid Argon time projection chambers. I hold an MSc from University College London and a BSc from the University of São Paulo, with additional experience in software development, data analysis, and operational strategy at Amazon. I also hold private aeroplane pilot licenses from Brazil and the UK.

Experiences

Network Control Manager

2020 - 2021
Amazon Logistics, London

Started off as an intern and had a position specially created for me to be hired full time.

  • Automation of reports and data processing through Python scripts, SQL and Excel
  • Managing multiple stakeholders and customers, presenting data and promptly handling last minute requests
  • Prioritisation of workload between long term strategic projects and short term tactical projects

Contestant

2019
University College London Data Science Society Hackathon

Data science competition in partnership with American Express and Microsoft.

  • Hosted at Microsoft Reactor London

BSc Final Term Work

2017
University of São Paulo

Programatically (Python) collected, organised and thoroughly analysed a large volume of data from numerous sources to determine the mechanism behind η Carinae’s brightening in the last century.

  • Data analysis and interpretation of photometric data
  • Development of a Python code to analyse the data

Undergraduate Research with Scholarship

2014 - 2016
University of São Paulo

Assisted the construction and tests of GEM type detectors related to the upgrade of the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

  • Presented at the 23rd (2015) International Symposium on Scientific Initiation of the University of São Paulo (SIICUSP)
  • Presented at the 24th (2016) International Symposium on Scientific Initiation of the University of São Paulo (SIICUSP)

Volunteer

2014 - 2016
Institute of Physics' LGBT+ Collective

A founding member in 2014. As one of four direction officers from 2015 to 2016:

  • Planned and coordinated the creation of the collective’s manifesto
  • Managed social media and events
  • Persuaded the institute’s administration into implementing new policies for guaranteeing the wellbeing of transgender students
  • Held many joint meetings with the student’s union officers

Certifications

Private Pilot License

2018
Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority (349370)

Brazilian private pilot license for single engine piston aircraft.

Private Pilot License

2024
UK Civil Aviation Authority (553115B)

British private pilot license for single engine piston aircraft.

Projects

Personal projects and academic assignments.

Yugiquery - Python script to query and display Yu-Gi-Oh! data from the yugipedia database
Arduino Odometry - Jupyter notebook to reconstruct inertial navigation data from arduino sensors

OSS Contributions

Pull requests and contributions to open source projects.

TQDM Discord contrib fix - Implementation of Discord Rich Presence for the tqdm progress bar using pure REST API

Publications

For more, visit InspireHep.

  • Distinguishing circumstellar from stellar photometric variability in Eta Carinae
  • A Damineli, E Fernández-Lajús et. al.
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society, 2019
  • SoLAr: Solar Neutrinos in Liquid Argon
  • The SoLAr Collaboration
    Snowmass, 2021

    Skills & Proficiency

    Python

    Git

    Arduino

    Java

    C++

    ROOT

    MS Office (Excel, VBA)

    SQL

    HTML

    CSS

    LaTeX

    Mathematica