The Brazilian Physical Society ([1]Portuguese: Sociedade Brasileira de Física, SBF) is a non-profit organization of physicists and physics teachers, affiliated with the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência - SBPC).
Since 2014, SBF coordinates the Professional Master’s Degree in Physics Education (Mestrado Nacional Profissional em Ensino de Física - MNPEF, in Portuguese), an initiative devoted to improving the training of elementary and high school teachers in all regions of Brazil.
The Society organizes the Brazilian Physics Olympiad (Olimpíada Brasileira de Física - OBF, in Portuguese) and the Brazilian Physics Olympiad in Public Schools (Olimpíada Brasileira de Física nas Escolas Públicas – OBFEP, in Portuguese), activities that involve about 265,000 students every year.
The main goals of the SBF divisions are to promote the development of research and to propose activities related to the different areas of Physics, nationally and in thematic events.
Anselmo Salles Paschoa Prize, excellence in research prize for Afro-Brazilian physicists Since its foundation, SBF has had the following Presidents: Oscar Sala (1966-1967) José Leite Lopes (1967-1971) Alceu G. Pinho Filho (1971-1975) José Goldemberg (1975-1979) Mario Schenberg (1979-1981) Herch Moysés Nussenzveig (1981-1983) Fernando de Souza Barros (1983-1985) Ramayana Gazzinelli (1985-1987) Gil da Costa Marques (1987-1991) Fernando Claudio Zawislak (1991-1993) Francisco Cesar Sá Barreto (1993-1997) Humberto Siqueira Brandi (1999-2001) José Roberto Leite (2001-2003) Adalberto Fazzio (2003-2007) Alaor Silvério Chaves (2007-2009) Celso Pinto de Melo (2009-2013) Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão (2013-2016) Belita Koiller (2016-2017) Marcos Assunção Pimenta (2017-2019) Rogério Rosenfeld (2019-2021) Débora Peres Menezes (2021-2023)