Lucas has a Ph.D. in Physics and is a post-doctoral researcher at the São Paulo State University in Brazil. He has experience in both experimental and theoretical Physics, and his main interests are strongly correlated electronic systems, phase transitions and critical phenomena, interdisciplinary research between condensed matter physics and other related fields, such as Cosmology and protein compartmentalization. His extracurricular interests lie in table tennis, exercising, reading, board/video games, among others.