Short Bio
Edgard completed his PhD in Mathematics at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal, 2013) under the direction of Diogo Gomes. After the completion of his doctoral work, he held post-doctoral positions at CAMGSD-IST-UL (Lisbon), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro) and ICMC-USP (São Carlos). In 2016, Prof. Pimentel obtained his Habilitation (Livre-Docência) at USP (ICMC). Pimentel was selected as a Jovem Cientista do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2018) and is a former grantee of Instituto Serrapilheira. A Junior Associate Fellow of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste), Prof. Edgard was ellected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) in 2019. In 2024, Edgard was selected to join the Seminário de Jovens Cientistas of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. With previous professorial positions in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Edgard is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation (Agregaçã0) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Mathematics at the same University (CMUC).
Prof. Pimentel likes to think about Partial Differential Equations, with emphasis on regularity theory and free boundary problems involving fully nonlinear models. Recently, Edgard has grown fond of harmonic maps and their variations. An enthusiast of scientific outreach, has contributed to the blog Ciência Fundamental, produced by Instituto Serrapilheira and Folha de São Paulo.
A self-proclaimed expert in poorly-prepared hummus and overcooked shakshukah, Edgard has grown very fond of the (magical) regularity properties of the so-called 'nevada'. Inspired by a dear friend, whose shoes fear neither sand nor the sea, he insists on the clarinet. Appearing consistently on the show 'mathematicians in offices having coffee', he is a polytheist and believes in A'gerich, B'renboim, B'ssa-Luís, R'th, S'infeld, T'rantino and Z'nussi.
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