Eight years ago, Renato Montagnolli participated in our Research Explorer Ruhr summer program for postdocs, which is now run by Research Academy Ruhr. Back then, he was a fresh postdoc after graduating from University of California, Berkeley. Today, he is a professor at Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) and still very close to Ruhr-Universität Bochum in terms of research.
Granted with our Visiting International Professor Fellowship (VIP), he conducts research together with Prof. Julia Bandow. In March 2025, he visited the campus accompanied by his Brazilian student Guilherme do Amaral Reis Pinto who presented a poster at the VAAM conference.
We took the opportunity to talk to Roberto on site about his career and his ties to Bochum.