Curriculum Vitae

Marcos Lima

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CURRENT789012345 Department of Physics & Astronomy 01234567890 Tel: (215) 898-0790
ADDRESS University of Pennsylvania Fax: (215) 898-2010
209 South 33rd St., DRL 4N4 mlima_at_sas.upenn.edu
Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~mlima
POSITIONS9012345 2008-Present5 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
2002-2008 Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago
EDUCATION9012345 20085 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago-IL
2004 M.S. in Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago-IL
2002 M.S. in Physics, University of Brasilia, Brazil
2001 B.S. in Physics, University of Brasilia, Brazil
AWARDS6789012345 2002-200690123 Graduate Fellowship from CNPq (Brazil)
2001-2002 Graduate Fellowship from CAPES (Brazil)
1999-2001 Undergraduate Fellowship from CNPq (Brazil)
INTERESTS89012345 Cosmological Probes, in particular Galaxy clusters and Gravitational Lensing; Photometric Redshifts; Structure Formation; Modified Gravity Theories; N-Body Simulations; Particle Astrophysics; Statistical Methods; Early Universe
RESEARCH89012345 2008-present23 Gravitational Lensing: Magnification of background galaxies by foreground clusters and effects on cluster detection and mass estimates. Applications to BLAST sources and ACT clusters.
2007-present N-body Simulations and Modified Gravity: Development of a Particle-Mesh code to perform N-body simulations of modified gravity theories. Effects on nonlinear growth and abundance of dark matter halos.
2005-present Neutrino-scalar interactions: Effects of neutrino/scalar interactions on large scale structure observables.
2004-present Photometric Redshifts: Development of techniques to estimate photometric redshifts, their errors and their distribution. Applications to the SDSS DR5, DR6 and to mock catalogs of the DES.
2003-present Galaxy Clusters: Forecasts of dark energy constraints for future cluster surveys, employing self-calibration techniques.
1999-2003 Condensed Matter Physics: Generalized random walks; Models of Growth by Deposition; Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics; Diffusive Systems.
TEACHING89012345 University of Brasilia
TEACHING89012345 19984567890123 Teaching Monitor - Physics I (Mechanics), Spring
2000 Tutor - Calculus III (Multimensional Calculus), Spring
2001 Teaching Assistant - Physics I (Mechanics), Spring
TEACHING89012345 TM: Led weekly lab sessions; graded lab reports.
Tut: Held weekly office hours.
TA: Led weekly discussion sessions.
TEACHING89012345 University of Chicago
TEACHING89012345 20024567890123 Teaching Assistant - Phys 131 (Mechanics), Autumn
20034567890123 Teaching Assistant - Phys 132 (Electromagnetism), Winter
- Phys 133 (Optics & Quantum Physics), Spring
- Phys 154 (Modern Physics), Autumn
20044567890123 Teaching Assistant - Phys 112 (Electromagnetism), Winter
- PhySci 120 (Cosmology), Spring
- Phys 235 (Quantum Mechanics), Autumn
20054567890123 Teaching Assistant - Phys 122 (Electromagnetism), Winter
20064567890123 Teaching Assistant - Phys 122 (Electromagnetism), Winter
TEACHING89012345 TA: Led weekly discussion sessions and lab sessions; held office hours; graded homeworks, lab reports and exams.
PUBLICATIONS2345 List of publications
TALKS567890123456 List of talks
REFERENCES012345 Prof. Wayne Hu
Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago, Chicago-IL, 60637
(773) 702-0160
whu_at_background.uchicago.edu
Prof. Joshua Frieman
Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago, Chicago-IL, 60637
(773) 702-7971
&
Center for Particle Astrophysics
Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia-IL, USA
(630) 840-2226
frieman_at_fnal.gov
Prof. Bhuvnesh Jain,
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia-PA, 19104
(215) 573-5330
bjain_at_physics.upenn.edu
Dr. Huan Lin
Center for Particle Astrophysics
Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia-IL, USA
(630) 840-8452
hlin_at_fnal.gov