Biography
Hello! My name is Manuel and I am a bachelor in applied mathematics. I was born in 28 July of 1998 in Campinas, which is a major city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. I am son to Guillermo Giménez de Castro and Marcela Claudia Marciani. I also have a older brother, Santiago Giménez de Castro. My family is all from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and came to Brazil because my father got a grant for a post-doc in the University of Campinas, UNICAMP.
Later my father, which is an astrophysicist that studies the sun, got a position as a adjoint professor in the Mackenzie University and we then moved to the capital of the state, São Paulo. Mackenzie, which also has a school, offered grants for the children of professors of the university thus I studied from kindergarden to highschool, 2002-2015, in the Mackenzie Presbiterian School.
Because of my father, I had close contact with computers, especially Linux/GNU, and science in general. As I grew I became more and more interested in learning computing and how to apply this resources to solve problems.
That led me to enroll first to a Computer Science in the Mackenzie University, but during the single year, 2016, that I frequented Mackenzie I saw that course was more oriented to learning boring tools for consumer technology, all from web applications to java for business, rather than teaching math and physics. I then decided to apply for Physics and Applied Mathematics courses in the University of São Paulo, which would build a solid theoretical foundation to understand modern physics and applications, and I was approved in the latter.
During the undergraduate years I decided to contact my Numerical Methods professor, prof. Alexandre Roma, who accepted me to develop a scientific initiation that would turn into a final work in the area of Computer Fluid Dynamics.
I studied the deduction of the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible flow and a set of equations known as Immersed Boundary Method, that model a structure immersed in the fluid. I graduated in march of 2021 with a perfect score in that final work which had a panel composed by prof. Pedro Peixoto, prof. Antonio Castelo, and my advisor.