Vitae
Current Appointment
Assistant professor - Institute of Physics - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Professional experience
Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at UFOB, Campus of Agrarian Sciences, March 2018 - August 2020.
Dean of Faculty of the Multidisciplinary Center of Barra, UFOB, May 2017 - March 2019.
Communications director at IUCHPP (current)
Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Federal University of Western Bahia (UFOB), Campus of Agrarian Sciences, March 2015 - March 2018.
Visiting Researcher, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA, September 2013 to June 2014.
Education
Ph.D. in History of Science, Nov. 2015 – UFBA
MA in History of Science, Oct. 2011 – UFBA.
BSc (Physics), Jun 2010 – UFBA.
Teaching experience
Courses
History and Philosophy of Sciences
History, Science, Culture, and Society
Philosophy of Physics
Physics in Agriculture
Rural Sociology
General Physics II
Experimental Physics II
Active learning methodologies
Team-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning
Professional associations
Member of the Commission for the History of Physics of the DHST (2021-2025)
History of Science Society (HSS)
American Physical Society
Sociedade Brasileira de Historia das Ciências e Tecnologia (SBHC)
Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF)
Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros
Reviewer for
Physics in Perspective
Physical Review Physics Education Research
Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física
História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos
Faces de Clio
Perspectivas
Selected publications:
SILVA NETO, C. P., Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Instruments and the First Bell Tests (Springer, 2023)
SILVA NETO, C. P.; and KOJEVNIKOV, A. "Socialist Internationalism and Science Diplomacy Across the Iron Curtain: Dubna, Geneva, IUPAP" In One Hundred Years of the IUPAP, ed. Jaume Navarro and Roberto Lalli, Oxford University Press, 2023.
SILVA NETO, C. P., “Instrumentation and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations, edited by Olival Freire Jr., Guido Bacciagaluppi, Olivier Darrigol, Thiago Hartz, Christian Joas, Alexei Kojevnikov, and Osvaldo Pessoa Junior. (Oxford University Press, 2022).
SILVA NETO, C. P.; and KOJEVNIKOV, A. “Convergence in Cold War Physics: Coinventing the Maser in the Postwar Soviet Union.” Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42, no. 4 ( 2019): 375–99.
SILVA NETO, C. P.; FREIRE JUNIOR, O. Um Presente de Apolo: lasers, história e aplicações. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física (Online), v. 39, p. 1502, 2017.
SILVA NETO, C. P.. The Cold War and Western Perspectives on Soviet Science. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA, v. 9, p. 164-175, 2016.
SILVA NETO, C. P. Red Descendants of Apollo: The Making of Soviet Laser Physics, PhD Dissertation, UFBA, 2015.
SILVA NETO, C. P., FREIRE JUNIOR, O. Herch Moysés Nussenzveig e a ótica quântica: consolidando disciplinas através de escolas de verão e livros-texto. Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física. v.35, p.2601, 2013.
Awards/honors
Fellowship of the Center for History of Science of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2019.
Prize of best dissertation in History of Science of the Brazilian Society of History of Science, 2016.
Grant-in-Aid, American Institute of Physics, 2014.
CAPES Science Without Borders (study abroad) Fellowship, 2013-2014.
CAPES Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2015.
Language skills
Portuguese - Proficient user (native language)
English - Proficient user
Russian - Independent user
Spanish - Independent user
Swedish - basic user