Dorival Goncalves

Associate Professor

Physics

BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs

Dorival Gonçalves is a theoretical particle physicist and associate professor in the Department of Physics at OSU. He obtained his PhD in physics from Heidelberg University (Germany) in 2013. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute Munich (Germany), Durham University (UK), and the University of Pittsburgh (USA). He joined OSU as a faculty member in 2019. Dorival Gonçalves works on several aspects of Particle Physics within the Standard Model and beyond. His research spans Higgs and top-quark physics, applications of machine learning in high-energy physics, effective field theories, dark matter searches, electroweak phase transitions, and baryogenesis.
Research Interests:

Theoretical High Energy Physics

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Oklahoma State University, Physics, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States1 Jul 2024 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Oklahoma State University, Physics, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States15 Aug 2019 - 30 Jun 2024

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Physics
    Heidelberg University, Germany, Heidelberg2013

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Associate
    University of Pittsburgh, United States1 Oct 2016 - 15 Aug 2019
    Postdoctoral Research
  • Postoctoral Associate
    Durham University, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, United Kingdom1 Oct 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
    Postdoctoral Research
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany1 Mar 2013 - 30 Sep 2013
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

FACULTY/STAFF OR STUDENT

  • Faculty/Staff

CAMPUS

  • Oklahoma State University - Stillwater

DEPARTMENT

  • Physics

FIELDS OF RESEARCH