Felipe Costa is a Mechanical Engineer, with a postgraduate degree in mechatronics, Master in Mechanical Engineering from COPPE UFRJ. He has been working since 2008 on the MagLev Cobra project as researcher.
Richard Stephan, Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering, IME and PhD in Control Engineering from Ruhr Universität Bochum, RUB, Germany. Full professor of Electrical Machines at UFRJ, CNPq level 1A researcher.