Luciano R Da Silva holds a degree in physics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal-RN (1975), and a master’s degree (1981) and a doctorate (1985) in physics from the Brazilian Center for Physics Research-RJ. He has postdoctoral degrees from the Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, France (1987–1987), Universitat Zu Koln (1987–1988), and Boston University (1994–1995) and (2000–2001). He is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and a Research Fellow at CNPq. He has experience in physics, with an emphasis on statistical mechanics on the topics of phase transitions and critical phenomena, percolation, cellular automaton, quasi-crystals, R/S analysis, correlations in general, diffusion, complex networks, chaos, and complex systems in general.