Paulo R. Rios

Prof. Paulo R. Rios is a faculty member at the College of Industrial Metallurgical Engineering, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil, specializing in microstructure physics and alloy design. He collaborated with Martin E. Glicksman (Florida Institute of Technology) on grain growth modeling and held a visiting scientist position at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Return Humboldt Scholarship.

• Research Focus: Normal grain growth mechanisms, including grain boundary, triple junction, and quadruple point mobility in 3D polycrystalline networks.
• Key Contributions: Developed polyhedral grain representations to study self-similar growth behavior, extending LSW theory to polycrystalline systems.

Scientific Awards:

• Return Humboldt Scholarship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)