What if you had someone more experienced to talk to about your experiences at university and in research?
Written by Paulo Ribeiro, Letters to Junior is a collection of letters sent by an experienced professor and researcher to an academic beginner, our dear Junior researcher, with advice and inspiration on how to live ethically and enjoy the process of learning and doing science.
At the end of each letter there is a question to provoke reflection, bringing a practical aspect to the book, which can be used as a trigger for a diary of reflections on the subject.
The author:
Paulo F. Ribeiro received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1985. He was a researcher at NASA Glenn Research Center, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and taught Electrical Engineering at Dordt University, Calvin University, Virginia Tech, Florida State University (all in the USA) and Technical University of Eindhoven (in the Netherlands). He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil. He also spent 12 years of his career as a Transmission Systems Planning Engineer. Prof. Ribeiro has written and edited 7 books in Electrical Engineering and authored and co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed papers. He is also an IEEE Life Fellow.
Together with his wife, he was and has been involved in the student Christian movement in Brazil, UK, USA, and the Netherlands. He has four daughters, nine grandchildren and lives in Narnia.
