Meet our team
We are an international group of researchers joined by a shared passion for geoscience and open-source.
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
![Profile picture of Leonardo Uieda](https://github.com/leouieda.png)
India Uppal (she/her)
- PhD student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Project: Improving estimates of Antarctic geothermal heat flow from magnetic data
- Email: I.Uppal@liverpool.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-3531-2656
![Profile picture of India Uppal](https://github.com/indiauppal.png)
Gelson Ferreira Souza Junior (he/him)
- PhD student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Project: Micropaleomagnetism
- Email: gelson.ferreira@iag.usp.br
- ORCID: 0000-0002-5695-4239
![Profile picture of Gelson Ferreira Souza Junior](https://github.com/Souza-junior.png)
Yago Moreira Castro (he/him)
- MSc student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: yagomcastro@usp.br
- ORCID: 0009-0003-3884-9675
![Profile picture of Yago Moreira Castro](https://github.com/YagoMCastro.png)
Arthur Siqueira de Macêdo (he/him)
- MSc student
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Email: arthursmacedo@usp.br
- ORCID: 0009-0006-5106-4356
![Profile picture of Arthur Siqueira de Macêdo](https://github.com/arthursmacedo.png)
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
![Profile picture of Santiago Soler](https://github.com/santisoler.png)
Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr. (he/him)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-6338-4086
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
![Profile picture of Vanderlei C. Oliveira Jr.](https://github.com/birocoles.png)
Valéria C. F. Barbosa (she/her)
- Researcher
- Observatório Nacional, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9767-6044
- Website: www.pinga-lab.org
![Profile picture of Valéria C. F. Barbosa](../images/team/valeria-barbosa.jpg)
Ricardo I. F. Trindade (he/him)
- Professor
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9848-9550
![Profile picture of Ricardo I. F. Trindade](../images/team/ricardo-trindade.jpg)
Alumni
These are some of the people who passed through the lab and have since moved on (only those who have added themselves):
Santiago Soler (he/him)
- PhD student
- Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina
- Project: Metodologías y herramientas computacionales para el procesamiento y modelado de datos gravimétricos
- ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-5317
![Profile picture of Santiago Soler](https://github.com/santisoler.png)
Laura Nicholls (she/her)
- Undergraduate student
- University of Liverpool, UK
- Project: An open-source Python implementation of the gravitational fields of ellipsoids
![Profile picture of Laura Nicholls](https://github.com/LNich.png)