Curriculum Vitae

Natanael C. Costa · Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

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Education  ·  Research experience  ·  Honors  ·  Projects & grants  ·  Supervision  ·  Invited talks  ·  Academic administration  ·  Academic service

Education

Ph.D. in Physics · Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 03/2014–01/2018
Numerical studies of charge ordering, magnetism and pairing
Advisor: Prof. Raimundo Rocha dos Santos · Co-advisor: Prof. Thereza Paiva

M.Sc. in Physics (Theory in Condensed Matter) · Federal University of Piauí, Brazil · 08/2012–02/2014
Advisor: Prof. José Pimentel de Lima · Co-advisor: Prof. Raimundo Rocha dos Santos

B.S. in Physics · Federal University of Piauí, Brazil · 03/2008–07/2012

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Research experience

Visiting Professor · Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany · 08/2025–01/2026
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation · Host: Prof. Fakher Assaad

Visiting Professor · Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany · 12/2023–02/2024
Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) · Host: Prof. Fakher Assaad

Postdoctoral Researcher · International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy · 03/2019–01/2021
Simons Foundation and CM-SISSA · Supervisor: Prof. Sandro Sorella

Postdoctoral Researcher · Institute of Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 02/2018–02/2019
CAPES · Supervisor: Prof. Raimundo R. dos Santos

Visiting Scholar · Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, USA · 07/2016–07/2017
FAPERJ / U.S. Department of Energy · Supervisor: Prof. Richard T. Scalettar

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Honors and awards

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (2025) · AvH Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany
• SCIAS Fellow (2024) · Siebold-Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
• José Leite Lopes Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis of the Brazilian Physical Society — Runner-up (2020)
• Brazilian Physical Society Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Condensed Matter and Materials (2020)
• Junior Travel Award (2017) · Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, USA

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Projects and grants as Principal Investigator

How can light-induced interactions drive the emergence of novel phases of matter?
08/2025–07/2030 · Serrapilheira Institute, Science Call · Grant R-2502-52037

Criticality, emergent phases and disorder effects in correlated quantum materials
08/2025–07/2028 · CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship (PQ-C) · Grant 308130/2025-1

Emergent phases induced by light-matter interaction
01/2025–12/2027 · FAPERJ Young Fluminense Scientist · Grant E-26/210.592/2025 (SEI-260003/004500/2025)

Properties of strongly correlated materials: competition between magnetism, superconductivity, and charge-density-wave
01/2023–12/2025 · FAPERJ Young Scientist of Our State (JCNE) · Grant E-26/200.258/2023 (SEI-260003/000623/2023)

Study of charge ordering, magnetism, and superconductivity
03/2022–07/2025 · CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship (PQ-2) · Grant 313065/2021-7

Magnetism, superconductivity and charge-ordered phases in quasi-2D compounds: a quantum Monte Carlo study
05/2021–08/2022 · ISCRA-EU, Italy · Grant ISCRA-HP10BF65I0 (project IsB23)

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Supervision

Current

• Guilherme da Gávea Oliveira de Souza · M.Sc. in Physics, UFRJ · 08/2024–present
• Jadson Lucas Portela e Silva · Ph.D. in Physics, UFRJ · 10/2022–present
• Thales Freitas Macedo · Ph.D. in Physics, UFRJ · 04/2025–present

Completed

• Julián Alberto Faúndez Chaura · Postdoctoral researcher, FAPERJ “PD Nota 10” · 01/2023–12/2025 · Current position: Professor, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
• William da Silva Oliveira · Ph.D. in Physics, UFRJ · 03/2021–03/2025 · Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, UFRJ
• Thales Freitas Macedo · M.Sc. in Physics, UFRJ, FAPERJ “Mestrado Nota 10” · 03/2023–03/2025 · Current position: Ph.D. student, UFRJ
• Jadson Lucas Portela e Silva · M.Sc. in Physics, UFRJ · 10/2020–09/2022 · Current position: Ph.D. student, UFRJ
• Andressa R. M. T. da Silva · M.Sc. in Physics, UFPI · 03/2018–03/2020 · Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, UFRN

Main-advisor supervisions only. For a complete list, including co-supervisions, see CV Lattes.

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Selected invited talks

• The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model as a playground for correlated phenomena, 14th Workshop on Quantum Many-Body Computation – QMBC 2026 · Beijing, China · May 2026
• Benchmarking the Variational Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo Method · Workshop on Quantum Monte Carlo Methods at Work for Describing Novel States of Matter, ICTP · Trieste, Italy · July 2023
• The effects of randomness to charge-ordered systems · Workshop on Strong Electron Correlations in Quantum Materials: Inhomogeneities, Frustration, and Topology, ICTP-SAIFR · São Paulo, Brazil · June 2023
• The role of electron-phonon interactions in quasi-2D compounds · Workshop on New Horizons in Quantum Correlated Materials, ICTP-SAIFR · São Paulo, Brazil · August 2022
• The phase diagram of the Hubbard-Holstein model · Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem Annual Meeting · Simons Foundation, New York City, USA · February 2020
• The nature of charge-density wave: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study · Workshop on Strong Electron Correlations in Quantum Materials: Inhomogeneities, Frustration, and Topology, ICTP-SAIFR · São Paulo, Brazil · August 2018

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Academic administration

Coordinator, Licenciatura em Física (Physics Teacher Education Program) · Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) · Since 2026

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Academic service

Conference organization

• Organizing committee, Autumn Meeting 2024, Brazilian Physical Society · Program organization for the Strongly Correlated Systems section
• Organizing committee, I Workshop of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of Rio de Janeiro · Coordinator

Refereeing

Physical Review Letters (since 2018) · Physical Review B (since 2018) · Physics Letters A (since 2018) · Physical Review X (since 2019) · Physical Review Materials (since 2020) · Communications Physics (since 2020) · Chinese Physics B (since 2021) · Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (since 2022) · Nature (since 2024) · The European Physical Journal Plus (since 2024) · Brazilian Journal of Physics (since 2024)