Meet our team
We are a group of scientists joined by a shared passion for geoscience, problem solving, open science, and software engineering.
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
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate / Google Scholar
India Uppal (she/her)
- PhD student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Email: I.Uppal@liverpool.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3531-2656
- Links: GitHub / ResearchGate
- 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
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- 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
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- 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
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- Project: "Integration of airborne geophysics datasets with gradient-boosted equivalent sources on the sphere"
Gabriel Aparecido das Chagas Silva (he/him)
- Undergraduate student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: gabaparecidochagas@usp.br
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- Project: "Mesh refinement in the 3D inversion of potential-field data through the planting method"
Eros Kerouak Cordeiro Pereira (he/him)
- MSc student
- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
- Email: eroskerouak@gmail.com
- ORCID: 0009-0008-0891-6781
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- Project: "Application of the gravimetric method to the study of the Dom Feliciano orogen and the southern portion of the Ribeira orogen"
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
- Links: GitHub / ResearchGate / Google Scholar
Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr. (he/him)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6338-4086
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate / Google Scholar
Valéria C. F. Barbosa (she/her)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9767-6044
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate / Google Scholar
Ricardo I. F. Trindade (he/him)
- Professor
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9848-9550
- Links: Lattes / ResearchGate / Google Scholar
Alumni
These are some of the people who passed through the lab and have since moved on (only those who have added themselves):
Ellen Fernandes Marcos (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: ellenfernandes@usp.br
- Links: GitHub / Lattes / ResearchGate
- Project: "Quantifying the quality of data interpolation from potential methods by equivalent sources using block cross-validation"
Santiago Soler (he/him)
- PhD student
- Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
- Links: GitHub
- Project: "Metodologías y herramientas computacionales para el procesamiento y modelado de datos gravimétricos"
Laura Nicholls (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Links: GitHub
- Project: "An open-source Python implementation of the gravitational fields of ellipsoids"
Sarah Margrethe Askevold (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Links: GitHub
- Project: "An open-source Python implementation of k-nearest-neighbor interpolation"
