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Patricia C. M. Castilho did her PhD in Physics (2017) at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil under the supervision of Vanderlei S. Bagnato, developing a new experimental system to produce two-species Bose-Einstein condensates and study miscibility phenomena and binary quantum turbulence. From 2017 to 2019, she was a post-doctoral fellow at LKB (Laboratories Kastler Brossel) and Collège de France in the group of Jean Dalibard, where she studied the properties of two-dimensional Bose gases, in particular, discovering a new type of breather and realizing well-controlled Townes solitons. She is currently an associate professor at the São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC-USP), in São Carlos, where she studies the superfluid properties of bi- and tridimensional quantum gases, giving special focus to phase transitions and the dynamics of quantum vortices. She is the principal researcher of the 2D-K laboratory where, in September 2025, it was produced the first Bose-Einstein Condensate of potassium-39 in Latin America, making it possible to explore the effect of changing the atomic interaction. She is the responsible for two research grants, the ''Projeto Inicial'' (PI) from FAPESP (Process: 2022/02709-6) and the ''Projeto CNPq Universal'' (Processo: 406900/2023-0) and a grantee from the Serrapilheira Institute (https://serrapilheira.org/ano/chamada-publica-no-7-2023-ciencia/).She has experience in Physics, focusing on experimental Atomic and Molecular Physics; cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation; Superfluidity; Quantum Turbulence; Two-dimensional atomic gases.