Lecture 12 — Observing-time proposal

Date: 30 July 2026

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Ted

Leandro de Almeida

PhD - He/Him

Astrophysicist

Education and Postdocs

Postdoctoral Research - Stellar Astrophysics, Exoplanets and Astronomical Instrumentation

NOIRLab / SOAR, Chile

2025 - 2026

Postdoctoral Research - Microlensing and Astronomical Instrumentation

Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA), Brazil

2021 - 2025

PhD in Physics

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

2017 - 2021

MSc in Physics

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

2015 - 2017

BSc in Physics

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

2011 - 2014

Education+

Nebulatom 3: A School on Emission-Line Objects in the Universe

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil

2017

Mathematical Methods of Physics III

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

2014 - 2015

Plasma Physics

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

2014

Theory of Relativity

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

2013

Astrophysics

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil

2012

Stellar Evolution

Observatório Nacional (ON), Brazil

2010 - 2011

Personal Information
Preferred name	Ted Leandro de Almeida
Full name	Leandro de Almeida
Nationality	Brazilian

Academic Information
Current institute	INPE - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Current position	Researcher and Professor / Faculty member in Astrophysics
Former institutes	SOAR / NOIRLab; LNA; UFRN; FURG
Research interests	Exoplanets, gravitational microlensing, stellar astrophysics, astronomical instrumentation, time-domain astronomy

Publications
Peer-reviewed papers listed here	33
Conference proceedings listed here	14
Lattes iD	7278094197406927
ORCID	0000-0001-8179-1147

Additional Information
Languages	Portuguese; English; Spanish (reading/intermediate)
Location	São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil