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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor at the Department of Biosystems Engineering at FZEA-USP, with expertise in the development of sustainable materials and innovative strategies for CO2 sequestration. His work stands out for the pursuit of technological solutions that promote sustainability in civil construction and contribute to mitigating climate change. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (07/2017 to 07/2018), where he deepened his research on sustainable solutions for civil construction. He holds a Habilitation in Architecture, Urbanism, and Technology (EESC-USP, 2009), a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (EESC/IFSC/IQSC-USP, 2003) with a sandwich period at LNEC-Lisbon, a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism (EESC-USP, 1999), and a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering (EESC-USP, 1993). He served as Head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering at FZEA/USP (from November 2014 to May 2017), as Vice-Director of the Fernando Costa Campus in Pirassununga, SP (from August 2018 to August 2025), and, since September 2025, he has held the position of Director of the Fernando Costa Campus in Pirassununga, SP. He is the author of the book "Structural Lightweight Concrete: Production, Properties, Microstructure, and Applications" (PINI Publishing) and serves as a reviewer for leading international journals, such as *Cement and Concrete Research*, *Construction and Building Materials*, *Computers and Concrete*, and *ACI Materials Journal*.He is currently an accredited supervisor for the Graduate Program in Engineering and Materials Science (FZEA-USP) and leads the CNPq research group I-Mat (Innovation in Sustainable Materials). His main areas of expertise include the development of solutions for the use of agro-industrial by-products in civil construction, the promotion of circular economy, ECODESIGN, and the application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in civil construction. Additionally, his studies cover special concretes, lightweight concrete, and concrete microstructure, with a focus on reducing environmental impact and carbon sequestration. He has been a member of the Research Support Center BioSMat Materials for Biosystems at USP since 2012.For more details on his scientific output, please visit his Scopus profile: www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8082370200. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Brazil is facing a housing crisis, with national initiatives targeting the delivery of millions of new homes. This creates an urgent demand for affordable, flexible materials suitable for modular construction. Cement-bonded particleboards (CBPB), widely used in Europe for flooring and wall systems, offer a promising solution but remain a niche product in Brazil due to the lack of domestic…
This project brings together two complementary undergraduate research initiatives focused on the valorization of Sargassum for sustainable construction. The first investigates the physical-chemical and morphological characterization of the biomass, applying different pre-treatment methods - such as hornification and SBR polymer impregnation - to assess its stability and potential applicat…
While there has been interest in recent years to develop commercial products from Sargassum seaweed, there is currently no system in place to increase local preparedness for Sargassum blooms and coordinate safe collection by local communities . Furthermore, a lack of community awareness, adaptive capacities, and monitoring efforts, a cohesive framework for Sargassum management challenges …
This project aims to study the brown algae Sargassum spp. which is landing in the Caribbean region and northeast of Brazil in order to better manage the biofouling by the algae and develop methods for valorization of the biomass. Sargassum are brown algae, originally found in the Sargasso Sea, located in the Gulf of Mexico. The flow of sargassum is becoming a serious environmental problem…
This project presents an innovative approach to the sustainable utilization of pelagic Sargassum, a seaweed responsible for massive strandings along coastal regions, leading to significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts. The research focuses on evaluating the technical and environmental feasibility of incorporating Sargassum particles into compressed earth blocks (CEBs), with the…
This project proposes an innovative approach for the sustainable use of pelagic Sargassum, a seaweed that has caused huge strandings along the coasts of the Caribbean, West Africa and northern Brazil since 2011, resulting in serious environmental and socioeconomic impacts. The research aims to make viable the use of this biomass in the production of medium-density particleboards, through …
The present post-doctoral project seeks interaction between researchers and local communities on the North Brazilian Coast, given the prospect of an increase in episodes of Sargassum arrivals, and consequent adverse effects of this phenomenon. In the northwest of the Atlantic Ocean there is a region called "sea of sargassum", due to the presence of high amounts of this seaweed. However, i…
The present post-doctoral project seeks interaction between researchers and local communities on the North Brazilian Coast, given the prospect of an increase in episodes of Sargassum arrivals, and consequent adverse effects of this phenomenon. In the northwest of the Atlantic Ocean there is a region called "sea of sargassum", due to the presence of high amounts of this seaweed. However, i…
Considering the search for new products, more sustainable, with technical improvements which lead to greater variability and expansion of the market, with a simpler production method, increasing competition, this research has as general objective the development of a line of research still not exploited in Brazil and little explored internationally: the production of fiber reinforced geop…
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The creation of a 3D product through a digital design, named 3D printing, is already a widespread technology in different areas, including civil construction, where its increasing application presents advantages such as minimal waste of materials, greater safety, production of geometrically more complex structures, among others. However, in addition to the search for new technologies to o…
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