Universidade Federal do ABC

Overview

Universidade Federal do ABC

Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC or Federal University of ABC) is a public university in Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, ABC, São Paulo, Brazil. Established in 2005, it is the only federal academic institution of higher learning in the nation. It is affiliated with several academic institutions, including the National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education and the Council of Rectors of Brazilian Universities. With modern learning initiatives and a selective admission policy, UFABC is recognized as one of the country's international universities.

Universidade Federal do ABC Key Statistics

UFABC’s academic structure is organized into multiple teaching labs. These are Teaching Labs – Building A, Teaching Labs – Building B, and Teaching Labs – Building Alfa & Alfa 2. Each teaching lab offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in humanities, economics, international relations, and public policy.

The university has more than 16,000 students, including nearly 15,000 undergraduates and over 1,500 postgraduates. It employs a 490-strong academic faculty which are spread across its multiple campus locations.

Other Universidade Federal do ABC key statistics are its academic and administrative facilities that include study spaces, a research advice center, and several libraries. The university library system boasts an extensive collection of physical books, publications, audio-visuals, electronic learning materials, research guides, subject databases, and access to a computer laboratory.

Universidade Federal do ABC Research

UFABC is a strategic research organization that produces high-quality research outputs which improve the way of living in the ABC region. These research activities are backed by grants and fellowships from the Fundacao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, the Brazilian government, and the National Institutes of Research.

The top three Universidade Federal do ABC research fields are physics, particle physics, and nuclear physics. Its researchers have also been invited to present their research outputs in global research conferences and symposiums such as WebSci: Web Science, ICDE: International Conference on Data Engineering, and SOCO: Soft Computing.

The university’s most cited research output is Chatrchyan et al.’s (2008) “The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC,” which was published in the Journal of Instrumentation and cited 9,631 times to date. Its second most popular research work is Chatrchyan et al.’s (2014) “Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons,” which was published in the Journal of High Energy Physics and has 3,586 citations.

Meanwhile, UFABC’s third most cited research article is Chatrchyan et al.’s (2014) “Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states.” This article which talks about the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying to a W-boson pair at the LHC was published in Web Science and has 3,219 citations.

Other Universidade Federal do ABC research facilities include its strategic units which are responsible for promoting scientific research excellence in the premises. These strategic units are the Strategic Unit for Strategic Studies in Democracy, Development, and Sustainability, the Biochemical and Biotechnology Unit, the Interdisciplinary Applied Neuroscience Unit, and the Virtual Universes, Entertainment, and Mobility Strategic Unit.