Biographical Sketch

Data:

 Full Name: Paulo César Carvalho Freire
Date of birth: October 1970
Place of Birth: Lisboa, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese

Employment:

Research Associate

Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (July 2009 - Present).
I am part of the Fundamental Physics in Radio Astronomy group.

Research Professor

Department of Physics, West Virginia University (August 2008 - June 2009).
During this period I spent half my time (Spring and Fall) at WVU, working with the WVU Pulsar Group

Senior Research Associate

Arecibo Observatory, Cornell University (June 2007 - June 2009).

Research Associate

Arecibo Observatory, Cornell University (May 2003 - May 2007).

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Arecibo Observatory, Cornell University (May 2001 - April 2003).

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, U.K. (October 2000 - March 2001).

Education:

Ph.D. in Radioastronomy

Jodrell Bank Observatory, The University of Manchester, U.K. (1997-2000).

Thesis title: ``The Pulsars in 47 Tucanae''.
Supervisor: Andrew G. Lyne.
Download Ph.D. Thesis in .pdf.gz and .ps.gz formats.

Mestrado em Física

(M.Sc. degree in Physics) Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal (1995-1997).

Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica

(Graduation in Engineering, with specialization in Physics and Technology),
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal (1989-1994).

The last year was spent at Université Paris 7, Paris, France; working at the Observatoire de Paris a Meudon.

Supervision:
(Official supervisor: Michael Kramer)

John Antoniadis

Co-supervised by Norbert Langer. Ph. D. Thesis (2013).

Patrick Lazarus

Ph. D. Thesis (2015).

Alessandro Ridolfi

Ph. D. Thesis (2017).

José Martinez

Ph. D. Thesis (2019).

Tasha Gautam

Ph. D. Thesis (2022).

Arunima Dutta

Co-supervised by David Champion. Ongoing project.

Fazal Kareem

Co-supervised by Vivek V. Krishnan. Ongoing project.

Robert Senzel

Co-supervised by Vivek V. Krishnan. Ongoing project.

Devika Bhatnagar

Co-supervised by Vivek V. Krishnan. Ongoing project.

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