Graduate Program in Physics at UFSC, Florianópolis

Elected directors of the SBPMat

Professor Ivan Bechtold, from the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), has been elected for a second two-year term (2026–2027) as President of the Brazilian Materials Research Society (SBPMat). SBPMat was founded in 2002, and Professor Ivan is the first researcher from outside the Southeast region to lead it.

The society brings together researchers from fields such as Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, and Engineering, all focused on the study and technological applications of materials. SBPMat’s annual event, internationally recognized in the field of materials, the Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS), gathers around 2,000 participants from nearly every state in Brazil and also from abroad.

Ivan joined UFSC in 2006 and is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Physics. He is also a permanent faculty member of UFSC’s Graduate Programs in Physics (PPGFSC) and Chemistry (PPGQ).

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A nova diretoria da Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais (SBPMat) tomou posse na manhã de 14 de fevereiro, em cerimônia realizada no auditório do Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW – Unicamp), na cidade de Campinas (SP), com a presença de mais de 80 pessoas.

Eleita pelos sócios da SBPMat em outubro de 2019 para o mandato que vai de fevereiro de 2020 a fevereiro de 2022, a nova diretoria é presidida por Mônica Alonso Cotta (IFGW-Unicamp), que se tornou a primeira presidente mulher da SBPMat.

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