CV

General Information

Full Name Luã Guedes Costa
Date of Birth 07th June 1993
Languages Portuguese, English

Experience

  • 2024 - today
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Center for Nonlinear Mechanics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
    • Design, development and analysis of new nonlinear smart systems and structures.
    • Development of high performance software package to simulate dynamical systems.
  • 2020 - 2024
    Doctoral Researcher
    Center for Nonlinear Mechanics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
    • Design, development and analysis of nonlinear energy harvesters.
      • Development of a theoretical nonlinear dynamics framework.
      • Design of novel compact and multidirectional energy harvesters.
  • 2020 - 2022
    Co-Founder and Partner
    Tupan Acessibility
    • Co-creator of the EVA system, an equipment to assist the visually impaired to navigate independently while walking.
  • 2018-2020
    Research Assistant
    Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ), Brazil
    • Analysis of bistable piezoelectric energy harvesters using reduced order models
  • 2017-2018
    Research Intern
    Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ), Brazil
    • Analysis of bistable piezoelectric energy harvesters using finite element method

Education

  • 2020-2024
    PhD
    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
    • Mechanical Engineering
  • 2018-2020
    Master's Degree
    Centro Federal de Educação Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ), Brazil
    • Mechanical Engineering and Materials Technology.
  • 2011-2017
    Engineering Degree
    Centro Federal de Educação Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ), Brazil
    • Mechanical Engineering.
  • 2015-2016
    Academic Exchange
    Technological University Dublin, Ireland
    • Two semester academic exchange focused on computational-aided engineering (CAE) and entrepreneurship for engineers.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    Best Student Paper Award
    Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (ABCM)
  • 2019
    Champion of the Invent for the Planet
    Texas A&M, USA
    • International award for the invention of a device to help the visually impaired navigate while walking, replacing a cane.

Peer Review

  • 2021-2024
    International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • 2023-2024
    Nonlinear Dynamics
  • 2020-2023
    Journal of Vibration and Control
  • 2023-2024
    Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Skills and Expertise

  • Programming Languages
    • C
    • Python
    • Matlab
    • Wolfram Mathematica
    • Bash
  • Software
    • ANSYS APDL
  • Libraries
    • OpenMP
    • Pandas
    • Numpy
    • Matplotlib