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 National 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).
  • Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA – since 2006).
  • Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (since 2021).
  • Foreign 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).
  • Tamandare Medal awarded by the Brazilian Navy (2010).
  • Fellow of the Optical 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, for the period 2019-2021.
  • Fellow 1A of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq).

Supervision of Theses

  • 22 Ph. D. and 14 M. Sc. theses

Other activities