in physics in 1968 at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where he has been a research student of Mário Schenberg (one of the top Brazilian theoretical physicists) and became an assistant professor in 1969.
-meson) on multiple particle production (particularly the so-called centauro events) produced by collisions of very high energy cosmic rays with the atmosphere or with target atoms.
Rodrigues is well known for his diverse research interests, such as the applications of Clifford algebras, the study of extraordinary solutions of the relativistic wave equations, and the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity; he has given several lectures on these subjects at international meetings.
He advised 12 Ph.D. theses in both mathematics and physics,[2] and published over 135 papers in leading scientific journals and dozens of chapters of books.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Birkhäuser journal Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras and a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS).