Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. is a physicist, with BSc and MSc from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD from University of Wales, Bangor (1990). In 2019 he received the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. He is the director of Sao Carlos Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He published ca. 680 papers in refereed journals, which received ca. 18,300 citations (h = 61) in the Web of Science, and 27,900 citations (h = 77) in Google Scholar, in June, 2023, filed 12 patents, and supervised 52 MSc and PhD students. Prof. Oliveira has led research into the fabrication of novel materials in the form of ultrathin films obtained with the Langmuir-Blodgett and self-assembly techniques. Most of this work has been associated with fundamental properties of ultrathin films with molecular control, but technological aspects have also been addressed in specific projects. This is the case of an electronic tongue, whose response to a number of tastants is considerably more sensitive than the human gustatory system. Prof. Oliveira has helped establish the Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC), which is a leading institute for natural language processing of Portuguese. Research and development activities at NILC include the development of a grammar checker for Brazilian Portuguese, which was available worldwide through Microsoft Word for many years, and participation in the Universal Networking Language (UNL) Project, sponsored by the United Nations University. He published two books on outreach activities and edited a book on scientific writing. In recent years, Prof. Oliveira has pioneered the combined use of methods from distinct fields of science, with the merge of methods of statistical physics and computer science to process text, and use of information visualization to enhance the performance of sensing and biosensing. Prof. Oliveira was the president of the Brazilian Materials Research Society from 2016 - 2020, and is the President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS). He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and executive editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. In 2006 he was awarded the Scopus Prize, given to 16 Brazilian researchers considered the most productive in terms of papers published and citations.
Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Jr. é físico de formação, tendo concluído o doutorado na University of Wales, Bangor, Reino Unido. Doutor Honoris Causa da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul a partir de 2019. É diretor do Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo. Publicou cerca de 680 artigos em periódicos especializados, 23 capítulos de livros, 2 livros de divulgação científica, 1 livro sobre escrita científica em inglês, 3 livros com coletâneas sobre nanotecnologia, tendo submetido 12 pedidos de patentes. Esses trabalhos receberam cerca de 18.300 citações (fator h = 61) na Web of Science, e 27.900 citações (h= 77) no Google Scholar (dados de junho de 2023). Orientou 52 mestres e doutores. É membro fundador do Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC), que desenvolveu o revisor gramatical ReGra, agraciado com 2 prêmios de inovação tecnológica e que integrou o processador de texto Word for Windows por vários anos. Suas principais áreas de atuação são em filmes orgânicos nanoestruturados, e processamento de línguas naturais. Foi presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais (SBPMat) (2016 a 2020), e é Presidente da International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS). É membro da Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo, da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e da Academia de Ciências da América Latina, e editor executivo da revista ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Recebeu o Prêmio Scopus 2006, outorgado pela Elsevier do Brasil e a Capes, como um dos 16 pesquisadores brasileiros com maior produção científica, com base no número de publicações, citações e orientações.
