Gustavo Wiederhecker
Físico - Professor Univertário at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolGustavo Wiederhecker is a physicist and university professor at UNICAMP with nine years of experience researching nanophotonics—how light confined at the nanoscale produces both anticipated and surprising effects. His work blends fundamental electromagnetic theory with experimental and technological exploration, probing phenomena where light’s tiny momentum can move nanostructures or fields drive electrons through extreme potentials. Based in São Paulo and trained at Cornell and UNICAMP, he combines rigorous academic grounding with a pragmatic sense of play—“having fun while not writing grants”—that fuels creative inquiry. He is known for translating subtle theoretical predictions into experimentally testable ideas, bridging theory and lab work to advance photonics at the subwavelength frontier.
9 years of coding experience
Cornell UniversityBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Github Skills (19)
expressions9
mathematica9
rio9
wolfram-language9
digital-humanities8
sympy8
binder7
mathematics7
python6
math5
comsol4
simulation4
physics3
numpy3
pythonic2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gwiederhecker/F540_jbook
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Jupyter book for the F540 course at Unicamp: Methods on Experimental Physics 1 - Electronics
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years 1 month
jupyter-bookphysicsfenicshigh-energy-physicsjupyter
gwiederhecker/arduino_scope
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:8 releases, 43 commits, 24 pushes in 2 months
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