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Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Embrapa Instrumentação Agropecuária (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Holds a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Physics of São Carlos - University of São Paulo (USP), with a specialization in optical techniques and photonics. Since 2001, she has been a researcher at Embrapa Instrumentation, São Carlos/SP, where she currently serves as the Deputy Head of Technology Transfer. Her responsibilities include overseeing innovation and business initiatives with private companies.Her research focus at Embrapa is optics and photonics applied to agriculture and the environment. Since 2003, she has led the CNPq research group "Optics Applied to Agriculture and the Environment." In 2021, under her coordination, the first National Agri-Photonics Laboratory (Lanaf) was approved, supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, as part of the SISFOTON initiative.She develops methods, sensors, and equipment for analyzing soils, plants, fertilizers, and food. Among her groundbreaking contributions is the development of an automated method and equipment using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for quantifying carbon, nutrients, and contaminants in soil. She has also developed portable systems for the early diagnosis of plant diseases directly in the field.The expertise developed in applying the LIBS technique to soil analysis led to the creation of a Lanaf spin-off, Agrorobótica. Through an open innovation partnership with Agrorobótica, she developed the AgLIBS system, which was licensed to the company in 2018. Lanafs students and postdocs involved in the project were employed by the company, which now has 30 employees and conducts soil analyses across all regions of Brazil. The company pays royalties to Embrapa Instrumentation and continues collaborating on new projects.She has established numerous international collaborations with institutions in Europe and the USA throughout her research career. Her academic output includes approximately 697 publications, with 143 indexed in international journals and over 6,500 citations.Leadership in Technology Transfer and InnovationAs Deputy Head of Technology Transfer, she has been instrumental in expanding Embrapa Instrumentation's portfolio of open innovation and private sector partnership projects. Over four years, the number of such projects increased from 25 to over 65. She has also played a pivotal role in supporting the development of startups by engaging with investors and venture capitalists. Currently, four spin-offs and startups partnering with Embrapa Instrumentation have been successfully accelerated and are making a significant impact in the agribusiness market.Awards and RecognitionsIn 2023, she received the Yvone Mascarenhas Award from the Municipal Government of São Carlos for her scientific contributions.In 2024, she was honored with the Women's Excellence in Photonics and Entrepreneurship award (3rd Workshop in Photonics) for her inspiring contributions to promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in photonics. This recognition highlights her role as a motivational example for women in science and technology.In 2024, she was invited by the Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation to join the Photonics Advisory Committee (CCFoto).For further details, see her profile on Publons: https://publons.com/researcher/2504719/debora-mbp-milori/ (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The globalization of food trade, world population growth, climate change, and rapidly changing food systems impact food security. As one of the major players in global food production, Brazil has to worry about meeting global demands for safe food. Establishing production systems with more nutritious and safer foods that benefit the population's health also supports economies, commerce, a…
Brasil Agritest, in partnership with Embrapa Instrumentação, aims to add value to the Brazilian and global agribusiness through the challenge of innovation in grain quality control, whose important step involves the grain defects grading. This is a procedure that must be carried out at each point in the logistics chain where cargoes loading responsibility changes, and which is of great im…
In this proposal we shall continue our efforts to generate cutting-edge science where fundamental and applied research will advance together in the field of optics. Our research program comprises three main thrusts: cold-matter physics, plasmonics and biophotonics, fields that linked by a common theme of light matter interaction. In parallel we shall advance fundamental understanding and …
The methodologies for reusing sewage for agricultural purposes are innovative in the country, which still lacks incentives and public policies in the sector, particularly in the semiarid region. The consolidation of such methodologies will strongly impact the management of water resources, sanitation, and the environment, making more water available for irrigation, protecting water bodies…
The wetlands have a fundamental role in the control of factors that can affect or be affected by the climatic and environment changes. The project will be developed in Nhecolândia (South Mato Grosso State), a region characterized by a system of lakes, with water composition varying from fresh to hyper saline. It is concerned to a multi and interdisciplinary research whose scientific chall…
Brasil Agritest, in partnership with Embrapa Instrumentação, aims to add value to the Brazilian and global agribusiness through the challenge of innovation in grain quality control, whose important step involves the grain defects grading. This is a procedure that must be carried out at each point in the logistics chain where cargoes loading responsibility changes, and which is of great im…
In the last 20 years, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) has become one of the most promising analytical techniques, whose applications are mainly focused on direct analysis of solid samples. Its applications are the most diverse, since its instrumentation is relatively simple and can be portable. In addition, it presents high analytical frequency, multi-elementary character, and…
Inappropriate land use through conversion of native vegetation to agriculture, with intensive tillage, has been decreasing the soil organic matter (SOM) and increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, especially CO2. However, conservation agriculture techniques, like no till, has been helping to reverse this process and several studies have demonstrated its beneficial effect in increasin…
The Amazonian Forest occupies large portions of the national territory of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Guyana, Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil, providing important services to humanity, such as high biodiversity, climate regulation, acting on carbon sequestration and regulation of water resources. Although the expansion of the deforested area and the use of land for agriculture, the Amazon play…
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Soil organic matter (SOM) is one of the main factors that contributes for high soil quality and for crop yield increases in the tropics and subtropics. However, soil management can influence its content and composition. No-till (NT) is a well-established production system in Brazil that promotes C sequestration, but there are few studies on the SOM dynamics over time in this system and on…
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