Prof. Mauro Pereira

Professor Mauro Fernandes Pereira obtained his PhD at the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona and focuses on Quantum Transport and Optics of Semiconductors, with applications to device development, for the protection of water critical infrastructures, explosive precursors detection and metabolomics. He was a research associate at CBPF, Uni-Rostock and TU-Berlin, a visiting Lecturer at Uni-Bremen, Senior Researcher at Tyndall Institute, Professor and Chair of Theory of Semiconductor Materials and Optics at Sheffield Hallam University and Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Theory at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, before joining Khalifa University of Science and Technology as Professor and Chair of the Physics Department. He has been named SPIE Fellow in 2011. He created the TERA-MIR concept unifying THz and Mid Infrared Radiation, was the Chair of COST ACTION MP1204 and is Chair of the Series of NATO TERA-MIR and SMMO Conferences http://www.tera-mir.org. He received the SPIE Innovation Awards in Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics (2019).