Paulo Eduardo Artaxo Netto

Prof. Paulo Artaxo graduated in Physics from Universidade São Paulo (1977) with a master's degree in Nuclear Physics from USP (1980) and a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from USP (1985). He worked at NASA (United States), Max Planck Institute, the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Lund (Sweden), and Harvard (United States). He is currently a full professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the USP Physics Institute. He works with physics applied to environmental problems, mainly on issues of global climate change, the environment in the Amazon, atmospheric aerosol physics, urban air pollution, and other topics. He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP). He published 519 scientific works and presented more than 1200 papers at international conferences. He has 59,542 citations of his works in Research Gate, with an H index of 122. He has 71,484 citations in Google Scholar, with an H index of 126. He has published 35 papers in journals in the Science and Nature groups. He coordinated 7 FAPESP thematic projects and 2 CNPq Millennium Institutes. He is a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and several other international scientific panels. He is the coordinator of the FAPESP Global Climate Change Program and a member of INCT Climate Change. In 2004, he received a vote of applause from the Brazilian Senate for his scientific work on the environment in the Amazon. In 2006, he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a member of the IPCC team that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2007, he received the TWAS Earth Sciences Prize and the 2007 Dorothy Stang Science and Humanities Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy Honoris Causa from Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2016, he received the Admiral Álvaro Alberto Award granted by CNPq, the Navy, MCTI, and the Conrad Wessel Foundation. In 2017 he received the Globo Faz a Diferença Award. In 2024, he received the PIFI award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was included in the Clarivate Analytics list as belonging to the top 1 of most cited researchers worldwide in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020. In 2022 and 2023, he was the most cited Brazilian scientist in the environmental area, according to Research.com. He is also on the Steering Committee of CNPEM, IBCT, and CEMADEM. He coordinates the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies (CEAS) at USP. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)