Willians César Carrega

Specialization in Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs, from the Fundación para el Desarrollo Social - FUDESO, Chile (2024). Post-Doctorate (2022), Doctorate (2017) and Master's (2013) in Agronomy (Plant Production) from the São Paulo State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) Jaboticabal Campus. Sandwich Doctorate (2015/16) at the Manfredi Agricultural Experimental Station, Córdoba, Argentina. Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Municipal Institute of Higher Education of Catanduva - IMES CATANDUVA (2009). Graduated in full degree in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Catanduva - IMES / FAFICA (2008). In addition, he completed the Training of Tutors and Preceptors course, being certified by the National Council of Municipal Health Departments (2025). He is currently a tutor for the EAD program More Health with ACS Agent by FAURGS - Support Foundation of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Guest Professor and responsible for the discipline Special Topics: Peanuts Management and Advances in Culture, in the postgraduate program of FCAV/UNESP (2019-2025); Collaborating researcher in the area of #8203;#8203;#8203;#8203;matology, in the research group LAPDA (Weed Laboratory) of FCAV/UNESP (2010-2025). Treasurer of AFNAJ (management: 2021-2023 and 2023-2025); Coordinator of the Meeting on Peanut Culture (2010-2025) and of the National Peanut Fair (2019). 2025); Active member of the Rural Development Committee (CDR), Chapadinha MA; Founding partner of AGRÁRION LTDA, PALMAZ and CTI-I, acting as operations, financial and executive director, respectively. Participated in the innovation programs: 1st Inova Amazônia MA, Inova Amazônia Tração MA and Startup NE MA. Participated in the development of research with innovation and technology in Plant Factory, with the company FARM INBOX LTDA, being a CNPq Human Resources Fixation scholarship holder - Level E (2022 2024); and Provides consulting services through the Project Sustainability and Value Creation in Production Chains (Agrichains Brasil project), in the State of Maranhão, Cerrado and Legal Amazon biomes, in the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Brazil. Consulting activities are focused on baseline studies and diagnostics, monitoring and assessment of project impacts. Among the research lines, he works in the areas of growth regulators, ripening agents and peanut physiology, with an emphasis on water stress. He also works in the area of #8203;#8203;matology, with an emphasis on weed interference, weed biology and dynamics, weed control and resistance, and agrochemical and biological products (bioherbicides, foliar fertilizers and ripening agents, in peanut, sugarcane, eucalyptus, corn, soybean, bean, among others). In addition, he has provided consultancy in the areas of biology and agronomy, with a focus on sustainability (restoration and reforestation of ecosystems), technology and innovation, in addition to developing socioeconomic work with the extractive chains of carnauba, açaí, jaborandi, babassu coconut, buriti and traditional peoples. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)