Vitae

Current Appointment

Assistant professor - Institute of Physics - Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)

Professional experience 

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

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

European Physical Journal H

Physical Review Physics Education Research

Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência

Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física

Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física

História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos

Faces de Clio 


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