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Ricardo Coelho's curriculum vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Name

Ricardo José Loureiro Coelho

E-mail

rjcoelho@tcd.ie

Web page

www.maths.tcd.ie/~coelhor

Nationality

Portuguese

 

Education

2005 - 2008 (expected)

PhD in Physics

Trinity College Dublin

 

 

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)

 

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 -

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

January 05 - December 06

Science Foundation Ireland

November 03 - October 04

Centro de Física do Porto

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

Last updated: February 25 2008.