Alexandre Linhares

Ph.D., Applied Computing, Brazilian Institute of Space Research (INPE, 2001). Dr Linhares' Ph.D. Thesis received the "honorable mention" from the Brazilian Computing Society for its "great scientific contribution". Beyond the minor tasks, which include participating as a research professor of Fundação Getulio Vargas, as an "ad-hoc" consultant of "Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico" (Brazil's highest scientific authority); as an associate researcher of Indiana University, Bloomington, as an ambassador of the RootStock fintech project, and as an Associate Member of The Club of Rome, Dr. Linhares dedicates his time to students. Linhares is also a global leader in cryptocurrency and blockchain, having first researched and taught about the subject in 2010. Some of his students hold stock from a technology startup launched in California in 2015. Finally, Linhares also works, with enormous honor, under FGV's Rector, Dr. Antônio de Araújo Freitas Jr., in the development of "FGV's Startup Club Incubator". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)