Brazilian Earth Scientist and Co-Chair
Science Panel for the Amazon
Graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) and PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Researcher at the National Institute of Amazonian Research – INPA (1975-1981) and the National Institute of Space Research – INPE (1983-2012). He worked as science policy management and coordination: President of CAPES; Creator and Director of the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts of Natural Disasters – CEMADEN; Secretary of Research Policies and Programs of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; Head of the Earth System Science Center (CCST-INPE) and General Coordinator of the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC-INPE). He has participated in several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In particular, he was one of the authors of the Fourth Evaluation Report of the IPCC, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (2007). He was the Program Scientist of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazonia-LBA Experiment. He is co-chair of the Science Panel for Amazon (https://www.theamazonwewant.org) and the creator of the Project Amazonia 4.0 (https://amazonia4.org/). He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, the World Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and of the UK’s Royal Society. He is also the first Brazilian appointed as Planetary Guardian and the first Brazilian with appointment by Pope Leo XIV as a member of the Advisory Council to the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development!