Please welcome Tinker Visiting Professor, Dr. Alexandre Ferreira Ramos, who is an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and a research associate at the University of Sao Paulo Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Complex Systems. In addition to collaborating with Dr. John Reinitz, Dr. Ramos will teach a class entitled, “The Brazil-Argentina Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and the Hydroelectric to Thermoelectric Transition in Brazil.”
Dr. Ramos has been politically and socially engaged on Brazilian policy questions, notably atomic energy. He has consulted for Electronuclear, the national Brazilian nuclear power agency, and has taken part in public debates on the future of nuclear power in Brazil. His current work, which involves a geometric model to quantify contact inhibition during tumor progression, breaks new ground by integrating theory and experiment. The results have potential utility for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer as well as for the development of novel treatment strategies.