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Who did Antonio H. Castro Neto work for from 2000 to 2010?
Antonio H . Castro Neto Antonio Helio de Castro Neto is a Brazilian-born physicist . He is the founder and director of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials ( previously known as the Graphene Research Centre ) at the National University of Singapore . He is a condensed matter theorist known for his work in the theory of metals , magnets , superconductors , graphene and two-dimensional materials . He is a distinguished professor in the Departments of Materials Science Engineering , and physics and professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering . He was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003 . In 2011 he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . Education and career . In 1984 , Castro Neto entered the State University of Campinas ( UNICAMP ) , where he started his studies in particle physics before moving to condensed matter physics . In Campinas , he completed his undergraduate and Master of Science degree in physics under Amir O . Caldeira . In 1991 , he moved to the United States where he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Eduardo Fradkin . His PhD thesis dealt with the understanding and description of the lowest energy excitations of Fermi liquids . After graduation , in 1994 , he moved to the United States , to join the Institute for Theoretical Physics ( currently , Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics ) at the University of California , Santa Barbara where he studied the electronic properties of nanomaterials and nanostructures under Matthew Fisher . In 1995 , Raymond Orbach , at that time the Chancellor of the University of California , Riverside , recruited him as an assistant professor . At Riverside , Castro Neto wrote fundamental papers on the theory of disordered magnetic metallic alloys . In 2000 , Castro Neto moved to Boston University as a professor of physics . In Boston , Castro Neto was one of the first theorists to look at the electronic properties of graphene that had been isolated by Andre Geim , Kostya Novoselov , and their colleagues at University of Manchester , and communicated in a paper published in the journal Science in October , 2004 . While in Boston , Castro Neto and collaborators , explored the unusual properties of the electronic excitations in graphene in terms of massless Dirac electrons and predicted the anomalous quantum Hall effect . Their original work , submitted in May 2005 was rejected . A few months later , Geim and collaborators published a paper in Nature confirming their experimental prediction . A long version of the original work was only published almost one year later in Physical Review B Castro Neto continued to published on theoretical aspects of graphene and predicted several other phenomenon that were eventually observed experimentally , such as the effect of vacancies in the electronic properties in graphene ; the electronic properties of bilayer graphene ; superconductivity in graphene ; twistronics in graphene ; Coulomb blockade in graphene mesoscopic structures ; atomic collapse in charge impurities in graphene ; localized magnetic states in graphene ; gap opening in biased bilayer graphene ; strain engineering in graphene ; impurity induced spin-orbit effect in graphene , among others . In 2009 , Castro Neto published one of the most cited reviews of all time in Reviews of Modern Physics . As a result , in 2010 , Castro Neto was invited , and accepted , to become the Editor of the Colloquia section of RMP . In 2016 , Thomson Reuters recognized Castro Neto as among the top 1% of researchers for the most cited documents in the field of physics . He reached the same recognition by Clarivate Analytics from 2017 to 2019 . His work has been cited more than 51,102 times , and he has an h-index of 90 . Due to his contributions to the field of graphene and 2D materials Castro Neto has been called the godfather of graphene . In 2008 , Castro Neto was recruited to create the first graphene research centre in the world at the National University of Singapore . The Graphene Research Centre ( GRC ) was created in 2010 with facilities for the synthesis , characterization , and device fabrication of graphene devices . In 2014 , GRC was expanded by a grant of the National Research Foundation of Singapore to explore other 2D materials beyond graphene and their heterostructures with the creation of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials . Castro Neto is also known for his work against the use of fake graphene in industrial applications . and his ideas regarding the use of graphene in space . Castro Neto is also an entrepreneur and has started 4 companies in Singapore : 2D Materials ; MADE Advanced Materials ; PHASE Events ; and Graphene Watts .