Present positions
Emeritus Professor, Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Address
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cx. P. 68528 – 21941-972
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BRAZIL.
ldavid@if.ufrj.br
ldavid.if.ufrj.br
Personal Data
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian citizen. Married, four children.
Academic Training and Degrees
Ph. D. University of Rochester.
Awards
- Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences – since 1995.
- Grand-Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil (2000).
- Member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) – since 2003.
- International Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)- since 2006.
- International Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences – since 2021.
- International Member of the European Academy of Sciences – since 2021.
- 2001 Physics Prize of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
- Brazilian National Prize of Science Admiral Alvaro Alberto (2010).
- Tamandaré Medal awarded by the Brazilian Navy (2010).
- Fellow of the Optica Society (former Optica Society of America) – since 2009.
- Fellow of the American Physical Society – since 2014.
- Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA, (2019).
- Fellow 1A of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq).
- The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2025)
Supervision of Theses
- 22 Ph. D. and 14 M. Sc. theses
Other activities
- Director-at-large of the Optica Society, 2025-2028
- President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2016-2022
- Secretary-General of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2019-2022
- Member of the Executive Board of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2004-2022
- Member of the Brazilian National Council for Science and Technology, from 2010 to 2022
- Vice-Coordinator of the Brazilian National Institute for Quantum Information, 2016-2025
- Member of the Executive Board of the InterAcademy Council (IAC), 2011-2014
- Member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Science (ICSU), 2011-2014
- Member of the Higher Council of FAPERJ (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), 2014 – 2020
- Member of the Higher Council of CAPES (Ministry of Education), 2008 – 2014
- Councilor of the Brazilian Physical Society, 1997 – 2001, 2003 – 2007, and 2009 – 2013
- Secretary-General of the 4th. Brazilian National Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation for a Sustainable Development, Brasilia, Brazil, May 2010
- Member of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), from 2005 to 2009
- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (2008 – 2011)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review A (2005 – 2009)
- Member of the Editorial Board of New Journal of Physics (2015 – 2017)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters, since 2022
- Chairman of the Administrative Council of IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada), 2014 – 2018
- Associate Editor of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 2003 – 2007
- Member of the Editorial Board of Editora UNICAMP, 2003 – 2004
- Head of the Brazilian Millenium Institute for Quantum Information, from December 2001 to April 2006
- Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Optics Communications (1994 – 2000) and Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (1998 – 2002)
- Member of the Physics Committee of the Brazilian National Research Council, 1988 – 1989 and 1998 – 2000
- Secretary General of the Brazilian Physical Society, 1981 – 1983