native_name_lang nationality fields article_title education name alma_mater
pt brazilian physics , condensed matter belita koiller
 phd belita koiller university of california-berkeley
belita koiller

belita koiller is a brazilian professor of physics at the instituto de física , universidade federal do rio de janeiro -lrb- ufrj -rrb- , brazil .
she is a condensed matter theorist , and has contributed to the understanding of the properties of disordered solids , particularly disordered chains and semiconductor alloys .
more recently , she has been interested in quantum control of individual electron spin and charge in semiconductors , aiming at applications in quantum information and quantum computing .
