Fábio Juliano da Silva Lopes

Graduated in Physics from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), with a Master's degree in Materials Science and a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing using Lasers from the University of São Paulo (USP). He is currently an Assistant Professor with Full Dedication to Teaching and Research (RDIDP) at the Institute of Environmental, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Diadema Campus, where he works as a professor and researcher in the Department of Environmental Sciences. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences (USP) from 2011 to 2015, including a period as a visiting researcher at the Langley Research Center (NASA, USA), developing a project on the application of remote sensing data from the atmosphere using lasers and the CALIPSO satellite (NASA) for mapping aerosol distribution in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, and detecting the transport of smoke aerosols from the Amazon Region to São Paulo. In recent years, he has worked as a researcher at the Center for Lasers and Applications at the Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research (IPEN) from 2015 to 2019 and 2021 to 2023, where he led the development and implementation of validation and calibration processes for data from the ADM-AEOLUS and EarthCARE satellites funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), in collaboration with the University of Granada (Spain) and the National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics (INOE, Romania). He also developed a depolarization Lidar system for detecting the transport of Saharan dust and smoke aerosols from the African continent installed at UFRN in Natal, RN. Additionally, he participates in a project for the development of a lidar system for monitoring emissions from industrial flares. He is a member of the Latin American Lidar Network (LALINET), participating in the development of tools for analyzing data and products related to the optical properties of aerosols and clouds. He has expertise in atmospheric physics, air pollution, laser remote sensing, solar photometry, and the study of optical properties of aerosols, clouds, and their interactions. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)