Doria Celso Melchiades

The author is Professor of Mathematics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina where he is a faculty member since 1993. He holds a PhD title in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, England, under the supervision of Professor James Eells. His research interest lies on Global Analysis, concentrating on the geometry of Gauge Fields and its applications to the Topology and to the Geometry of differentiable manifolds. His scientific background includes a postdoctoral at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, England, and another at Michigan State University, USA.