Raphael Reis

Raphael Reis is a professor of Materials Engineering at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil.

He received his Materials Engineering degree in 2005, his MSc and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008 and 2012, from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. During his MSc and PhD, he studied the kinetics of glass sintering and the effects of particle rounding and surface crystallization on densification. He also developed a technique to measure the crystal growth rate in glasses using a single DSC experiment and a model for the transformation of particles from surface and internal nuclei. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2013, studying the crystallization of glass sealant candidates for SOFC and as a researcher at Itaipu Technological Park – Brazil in 2014, studying the sintering of glass sealants for molten-salt batteries. He has authored 9 research papers in Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Acta Materialia and Journal of non-Crystalline Solids, and presented a number of works at international conferences. He was awarded “Best Presented Work” in the 48th Brazilian Ceramic Congress and “Best Theoretical Poster” in the X Brazilian MRS meeting.

His research interests are in the fields of glass and glass-ceramics, including modeling of crystallization and sintering processes, thermal analysis methods and the relation between glass structure and properties, such as thermal, rheological and chemical durability.