Dr. Marcelo Gleiser
Dr. Marcelo Gleiser, FAPS is
Professor of Physics and Astronomy and
Appleton Professor of
Natural Philosophy
at Dartmouth University.
Marcelo’s main
research interests are in the interface of
cosmology,
that studies
the Universe as a whole, and
particle physics, that studies the smallest
constituents of the Universe. We now know that if we are to reconstruct
the history of the Universe from its origin to today, we must mix the
physics of the very large with the physics of the very small. As part of
this research, he investigates several very fundamental questions, such
as
“Can we understand the origin of the Universe?”, “Where does the
matter we and everything else is made of come from?”, “What are the
(dark) energy and (dark) matter that drive the expansion of the
Universe?”, and “Where does complex behavior in physical systems come
from?”
He authored
The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths To The Big Bang,
The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the
World,
Where
does matter come from?,
O fim da terra e do céu: O apocalipse na ciência e na
religião,
Livro do Cientista, O,
Das tanzende Universum: Schöpfungsmythen und Urknall,
and coauthored
Equilibration Time Scales in Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate
Dynamics,
Nonperturbative Effects in Rapidly Expanding Quark-Gluon
Plasmas,
Gauged Fermionic Q-Balls, and
Resonant emergence of global and local spatiotemporal order in a
nonlinear field model.
He writes a weekly science column for the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.
Read his famous quotes
(Portuguese). Read
the full list of his publications!
Marcelo earned his B.A. at the
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in
1981, his M.Sc. at the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1982, and
his Ph.D. at
University of London, King’s College in 1986.
He did his postdoctoral research at the
Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group from 1986 to 1988 and
at the
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at
Santa
Barbara, from 1988–1991.
He is a Fellow
of the American Physical Society, Division of Astrophysics.
Watch him on the DVD
Marcelo Gleiser – O Homem e os Caminhos da Ciência no Século
XXI!
