Maria Cristina Tavares

Maria Cristina Dias Tavares
Citizenship	Brazil
Alma mater	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Occupation(s)	Electrical engineer, University professor, Researcher
Years active	1984–present
Employer	University of Campinas
Known for	Contributions to single-phase and three-phase automatic reclosing of transmission lines
Title	Full Professor
Awards	IEEE Fellow (2024)
Website	www.dsce.fee.unicamp.br/~cristina/index.ing.html

Maria Cristina Dias Tavares is a Brazilian electrical engineer specializing in long-distance electric power transmission and the characteristics of transmission lines. She is a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of Campinas in Brazil. ^{[1] [2]}

Education and career

Tavares earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1984 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She received a master's degree in 1991 at COPPE, the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering of UFRJ, and completed a doctorate (D. Sc.) in 1998 at the State University of Campinas. ^{[2] [3]}

After postdoctoral research at the University of São Paulo, Tavares joined the faculty of electrical engineering and computation at the State University of Campinas in 2002. She became an associate professor there in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2023. ^[2]

Recognition

Tavares was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2024, "for contributions to single-phase and three-phase auto-reclosing switching of transmission lines". ^[4]

References

1. "Maria Cristina Dias Tavares", Faculty and researchers, State University of Campinas, retrieved 2024-11-12
2. "Maria Cristina Dias Tavares", Curriculo Lattes, retrieved 2024-11-12
3. "Maria Cristina Tavares", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, 31 May 2005, retrieved 2024-11-12
4. IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2024-11-12

External links

• Home page
• Maria Cristina Tavares publications indexed by Google Scholar