The GMF – Group of Ferroic Materials, located at the Physics Department of the Federal University of São Carlos, since 80´s, works on the fundamentals and applications of ferroic materials helped by the efforts of its research team (undergraduate and graduate students, pos-docs, visiting scholars and faculty academic&staff). Many of the GMF research and extension projects are developed in partnership with groups from Brazilian and/or foreigner institutions. The group has achieved expertise on the material development and applications based on ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, electrooptics and multiferroics. Also, the GMF lab facilities allow fully electroceramics property characterization and the variety of equipment and experimental setups enable the analysis of the structural, electric, dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric, elastic, magnetoeletric and electrooptical properties of the materials.
Financial Resources and Fellowships: the GMF research and extension projects are usually supported by Brazilian research funding agencies (FAPESP, CNPq, CAPES, FINEP,…) or by other international agencies (CYTED, OPAS, CONICET, CONACYT,…). For undergrad and grad student training or pos-doc fellowships there are a variety of opportunities through calls for application from the Department of Physics Graduate Program or from national funding agencies (CAPES, CNPq or FAPESP).