Antonio Sergio Teixeira Pires Author

Antonio Sergio Teixeira Pires earned his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976. Until his retirement, he was a professor of physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, specialising in magnetism. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, he served as editor of the Brazilian Journal of Physics and on the advisory board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. He has published over 230 research papers and several books.