Ruy de Deus e Mello Neto

PhD in Education from the University of São Paulo with a research internship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His doctoral thesis focused on the impact of access policies to higher education for low-income students in Brazil. He was a PNPD CAPES postdoctoral fellow at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation and a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow (Research Internship Abroad) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At the same institution, he was a member of the Comparative Inequality Cluster at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He also held a FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Education at the University of São Paulo. He has supervised doctoral research in the Graduate Program in Education at the University of São Paulo, specializing in the Sociology of Education, and has taught courses within the same program. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Specialized Studies at the Federal University of Ceará and a permanent professor in the Professional Master's Program in Public Policy Evaluation at the same institution. He serves as the coordinator of the TED project "Impact Analysis of 20 Years of the University for All Program (ProUni)" in partnership with SESU/MEC, managed by the Ceará Foundation for Research and Culture. His research interests include inequality, sociology of education, affirmative action policies, and educational statistics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)