My name is Edmar Avellar Soares and I was born some 31 years ago in
Belo
Horizonte, a nice town surounded by mountains, in the southeast
part of Brazil. Since then I've been growing and growing. During
my first 18 years I grew up but after that something really weird happened:
slowly but steadily I gained a new buddy, The Belly. :-)
At the age of 13, I discovered Rock'n Roll and became an afficionado.
I enjoyed it so much that I bought an electric guitar. I still can't play
it very well, but believe it or not, I am part of one of the most promising
bands ever created,
"The The Flush".
At 17, I intended to go to College and major in music (classical guitar),
but apparently the idea was not very welcomed by my parents. So
I finally majored in physics at UFMG
in 1991, which pleased them both; only God knows why!!! ;-) I finished my
Master in 94 and managed to get my PhD in Surface Science by the end of
98.
Nowadays, I am a PostDoc fellow in
Prof. M.A. Van Hove's group
at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, California.
What I like:
To play guitar, to drink beer, to eat cheese, to chat with friends,
Star Wars and Star Trek, chocolate, old TV
sitcoms, swimming, football (not soccer), Pink Floyd,
to travel,
mountain bike trails, Jeep, scuba diving,
snowboard, physics and lots of other things that I
don't remember right now.
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