Pós-Graduação em Estatística 
Associate Professor
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Graduate Coordinator (substitute)
· PhD in Physics from the University of Brasília (2012, UnB/Brazil), Master (1994) and Bachelor of Science in Statistics (1990) from the Campinas State University (UNICAMP/Brazil).
· Full-time associate professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Brasília/UnB (Brazil), member of the Graduate Program in Statistics (UnB/Brazil) and the Graduate Program in Business Administration (UnB/Brazil).
· Primary research areas in econophysics, statistical inference, applied probability, and theory of information.
· My ORCID
Selected Papers (2018-2021)
1. 
CAMPARA, JESSICA; DA COSTA, NEWTON; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Da Silva, Sergio. Two selves and two minds in a longitudinal survey of risk attitudes. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FINANCE, v.29, p.100444, 2021
2. Da Silva, Sergio; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; SILVA, MURILO. A power law in the ordering of the elements of the periodic table. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v.548, p.123408, 2020 
3. MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Da Silva, Sergio; DA FONSECA, REGINA; NAGATA, MATEUS. Bypassing the truncation problem of truncated Lévy flights. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v.559, p.125035, 2020
4. MAIA, ADRIANO; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Da Silva, Sergio. Earnings distributions of scalable vs. non-scalable occupations. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v.560, p.125192, 2020
5. GONÇALVES, JENNIFER; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Da Silva, Sergio. The asymmetric Brazilian input-output network. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC STUDIES (BRADFORD), v.ahead-of-print, p.1, 2020
6. SILVA, SERGIO DA; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; FERNÁNDEZ, GEZIEL. Inflation Forecasting: Rewarding Luck Rather Than Skill?. OPEN ACCESS LIBRARY JOURNAL, v.06, p.1-6, 2019
7. SILVA, SERGIO DA; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; GONCALVES, THAYANA. Willful Blindness and Dishonesty. OPEN ACCESS LIBRARY JOURNAL, v.06, p.1-6, 2019
8. GOMES, HELEN; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; SILVA, SERGIO DA. Item Response Theory Modeling of High School Students? Behavior in a High-Stakes Exam. OPEN ACCESS LIBRARY JOURNAL, v.06, p.1-22, 2019
9. Da Silva, Sergio; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; PEREIRA, MARIANA; FONTANA, MARIÊ. Real estate list price anchoring and cognitive ability. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOUSING MARKETS AND ANALYSIS (PRINT), v.12, p.581-603, 2019
10. SILVA, SERGIO DA; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; RAMOS, MAURICIO. Incomplete Information Choice on Incumbents, Cognitive Ability and Personality. OPEN ACCESS LIBRARY JOURNAL, v.06, p.1-11, 2019
11. DA SILVA, SERGIO; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; LUDWIG, RAFAELA; BELLINCANTA, LUIGGI. Ego Depletion May Explain Gender Differences in Multitasking. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, v.32, p.026010791986653-10, 2019
12. DA SILVA, S.; COSTA JUNIOR, N. C. A.; MATSUSHITA, R.; VIEIRA, C.; CORREA, A.; FAVERI, D.. Debt of high-income consumers may reflect leverage rather than poor cognitive reflection. Review of Behavioral Finance, v.10, p.42-52, 2018
13. Da Silva, Sergio; Mioranza, Diego; MATSUSHITA, R.. FIFA Is Right: The Penalty Shootout Should Adopt the Tennis Tiebreak Format. OPEN ACCESS LIBRARY JOURNAL, v.05, p.1-23, 2018
14. MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Pianto, Donald; DE ANDRADE, BERNARDO B.; CANÇADO, ANDRE; Da Silva, Sergio. The Touchard distribution. COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-THEORY AND METHODS, v.47, p.1-11, 2018
15. Da Silva, Sergio; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; Giglio, Ricardo; MASSENA, GUNTHER. Granularity of the top 1,000 Brazilian companies. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, v.512, p.68-73, 2018
16. Da Silva, Sergio; PERLIN, MARCELO; MATSUSHITA, RAUL; SANTOS, ANDRÉ AP; IMASATO, TAKEYOSHI; BORENSTEIN, DENIS. Lotka?s law for the Brazilian scientific output published in journals. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, v.00, p.016555151880181-5, 2018