Curriculum Vitae | |
Personal Information | |
Name | Ricardo José Loureiro Coelho |
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Nationality | Portuguese |
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Education | |
2005 - 2008 (expected) | PhD in Physics |
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2003 - 2004 | Master in Computational Methods for Science and Engineering Faculdades de Ciências e de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Final mark: 16 in 20 (classes) e "Muito Bom" - Very Good (research) |
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1997 - 2003 | "Licenciatura" - Bachelor in Physics Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto Final mark: 14 in 20 |
2002 | Erasmus exchange program - Trinity College Dublin |
Scholarships | |
January 07 - | |
January 05 - December 06 | |
November 03 - October 04 | |
Language | |
Portuguese | Native language |
English | High level in oral and written expression |
French and Spanish | Intermediate level in oral and written expression |
Computer skills | |
Operating system | UNIX/LINUX, DOS and Windows |
Programming languages | C/C++, HTML, Basic, Fortran and Matlab |
Applications | MySQL, Latex, Xmgrace, R, Pajek, Emacs, Mathematica and Office |
Publications | |
Thesis | "Modelos de colisões inelásticas em Meios Granulares", "Licenciatura" thesis under the supervision of Prof. José Fernando Mendes |
"Modelos de Distribuição de Riqueza", Master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Maria Augusta | |
Chapters in books | A Review of Empirical Studies and Models of Income Distributions in Society, in Econophysics and Sociophysics: Trends and Perspectives, eds. Chakrabarti et al., Wiley-VCH (2006) |
Articles in scientific journals | A family-network model for wealth distribution in societies, Physica A 353 (2005) 515-528 |
A family-network model for wealth distribution, AIP Conference Proceedings - July 20, 2005 - Volume 779, Issue 1, p. 206 | |
Comments on recent studies of the dynamics and distribution of money, Physica A 370 (2006) 43-48 | |
Sector analysis for a FTSE portfolio of stocks, Physica A 373 (2007) 615-626 | |
The Evolution of Interdependence in World Equity Markets - Evidence from Minimum Spanning Trees, Physica A 376 (2007) 455-466 | |
Wealth distribution in modern and medieval societies, Eur. Phys. J. ST 143 (2007) 81-85 | |
Double power laws in income and wealth distributions, Proceedings of the International Conference "AFPA 6" | |
Study of the Correlations Between Stocks of Different Markets, Proceedings of the International Conference "AFPA 6" | |
A Random Matrix Theory based analysis of stocks of markets from different countries, Proceedings of the International Conference "Econophysics Colloquium" | |
Oral communications | |
"Modelos de Colisões Inelásticas em Meios Granulares", Seminar in Centro de Física do Porto, 27th June 2003, Porto, Portugal | |
Maxwell Model of Inelastic Collisions - Mixtures, in "PHYSBIO: Non-equilibrium in Physics and in Biology - From pattern formation to granular physics and soft condensed matter", 30th September 2003, Benasque, Spain | |
Minimal Spanning Trees (MST) analysis of random time series from different distributions, in COST P10 Workshop "Network dynamics: From structure to function", 23rd September 2006, Vienna, Austria | |
"Estudo de Mercados Financeiros: Reais vs. Aleatórios", Seminar in Centro de Física do Porto, 6th October 2006, Porto, Portugal | |
Study of the correlations between stocks of different markets, in "APFA 6 Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis", 5th July 2007, Lisboa, Portugal | |
A Random Matrix Theory based analysis of stocks of markets from different countries, in COST P10 4th Annual Meeting "Physics of Risk", 22nd September 2007, Palermo, Italy | |
A Random Matrix Theory based analysis of stocks of markets from different countries, in "Econophysics Colloquium and beyond", 28th September 2007, Ancona, Italy | |
Extra-curricular | |
January 07 - | Responsible for the on-line examination program "Mastering Physics" at School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin |
March 07 - April 07 | Lab demonstrator - Theoretical Physics Junior Freshman, Trinity College Dublin |
February 06 | Author of IOP-Ireland article "A day in the life of an econophysicist" |
September 04/05/06 | Responsible for the "Econofísica" - Econophysics project in Escola de Física do Porto da Universidade Júnior |
November 04 - December 04 | Network administrator of Centro de Física do Porto |
Hobbies | Reading, music, volleyball and football |
Member of Afrocaribbean Society in Trinity College Dublin | |
Member of Trinity College Dublin Volleyball sports club |