Brazilian Physical Society

The Brazilian Physical Society (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).  Its main missions  are to promote the advancement and dissemination  of  knowledge in physics and science; to defend academic freedom, as well as the interests and rights of  professionals in physics, and to contribute to initiatives and public policies aiming to improve the training and harnessing of physics teachers and physicists to help the scientific and technological development of Brazil.