José Carlos Sícoli Seoane

José Carlos Sícoli Seoane completed his BSc. (Honors equivalent) at the University of São Paulo (USP, 1989) and DSc. at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, 1999). He is Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he teaches Field Mapping, Photogeology, GIS and Remote Sensing to undergraduate and graduate students. He has projects and ongoing collaborations with colleagues from several universities (UFRJ, UnB, UFF, UFPE), and has supervised 11 doctoral thesis and 15 MSc. dissertations. He currently supervises 1 PhD. candidates, 2 MSc candidates, and 5 final monograph projects (Honors equivalent). His main interests are the application of GIS, Remote Sensing and Data Integration to Economic Geology and Exploration, Geological Cartography and Coastal and Quaternary Geology. He has worked eight years as a geologist for Vale / CVRD, and one year as the South America geochemistry exploration manager for AngloGold-Ashanti. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)