Sérgio F. Novaes

Sergio.Novaes@cern.ch
- NCC, São Paulo, Brazil, +55 (11) 98115-2100
- CERN 40-2-B15, Geneva, Switzerland, +41 (22) 766-8138

Positions

Full Professor at the São Paulo State University (Unesp).
B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Post-doctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA).
Visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA).
Visiting researcher at the University of Valencia (Spain).
Visiting researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago, USA).
Visiting researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Leader of the São Paulo group of the D0 Collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).
Member of the CMS Collaboration of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Leader of the CMS group in São Paulo, the São Paulo Research and Analysis Center (SPRACE).
Principal Investigator of the Thematic Projects from the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp) since 2003
He and his team implemented GridUnesp, the first Campus Grid in Latin America
He is currently Scientific Director of the Center for Scientific Computing at Unesp.
He was PI of several R&D projects with the private sector (Padtec, Intel, Huawei, etc.):
- The Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC),
- The Center of Excellence in Machine Learning
- Development of Kytos, a new SDN controller open source, with the support of Huawei.
He and his team broke three times the record for data transmission between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Scientific Coordinator (1990-1996) and Deputy Director (1996-1999) of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Unesp.
Co-founded the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

Member of the International Committee for Future Accelerators , ICFA (2005-2007),
Brazilian representative on the Particles and Fields Commission (C11) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, IUPAP (2011-2021).
Brazilian representative on the Executive Board of the International Doctorate Network in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology , IDPASC (2022-).
Representative Elected of the States of Region B (OSB) made up of 20 countries of the CMS Collaboration (2021-2023).
Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the National High Energy Physics Network, Renafae (2008-2018).
Member of the Steering Committee of the INCT for High Energy Physics CERN-Brazil (2023-),
Principal Investigator and Coordinator of Education and Knowledge Diffusion at the Center for Applied Research Data Science for the Smart Industry, CDI2 (2024-),
Member of the Management Committee of the Scientific Supercomputing Center of the State of São Paulo, C3SP (2024-).
Appointed by the Minister of Science and Technology to form the task force that began negotiations for Brazil to become an Associate Member of CERN.
Member of the Advisory Committee of the São Paulo Research Support Foundation, Fapesp (1997-2000)
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq (2009-2012),

The "Elementary Structure of Matter: A Poster in each School", which distributed posters to all 25,000 high schools in Brazil
The "SPRACE Game" which was translated into English and German by the Austrian Academy of Science.
The app "The Particle", developed by Frank Close, and translated and distributed in Portuguese