Carlos José Sousa Passos

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), master's and doctorate in Environmental Sciences with an emphasis on environmental health from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM, Canada), and post-doctorate in environmental toxicology from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has experience in the area of risk assessment as well as analysis of early toxic effects linked to human exposure to environmental pollutants. He is Associate Professor II at the University of Brasília (UnB), working at the undergraduate (Environmental Management) and Postgraduate level, both at the Faculty UnB at Planaltina (PPGMADER - Academic Master in Environment and Rural Development of which he was Coordinator 2012-2013/2014, and ProfÁGUA - Professional Master's in Water Resources Management and Regulation), as well as in the Graduate Program of the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS/UnB, Score 7 in the area of Environmental Sciences at CAPES). He is a CNPq Research Productivity Scholar (PQ-2), author/co-author of more than 50 articles published in national and international scientific journals (24 of them in the last 10 years), with a total of 1,455 citations on the Web of Science (h-index 19), 1,815 citations on the Scopus platform (h-index 21), in addition to 3,030 citations on the Google Scholar platform (h-index 26). He is co-organizer of 1 book, author/co-author of 10 book chapters, in addition to more than 50 abstracts in proceedings of scientific conferences. He is Associate Editor of the Acta Amazonica Journal (INPA, MCTI), reviewer of more than 40 scientific journals with wide readership and national and international impact, and served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Chamber of the State Research Support Foundation of Amazonas (FAPEAM 2017/2018). He has already completed the supervision of 3 doctoral thesis, 8 master's dissertations, 11 undergraduate monographs, 3 scientific initiation internships, and 4 other supervisions of other nature, and supervised a post-doctoral researcher with a CAPES scholarship. He has acted in 15 research projects funded by public agencies (5 of them as coordinator), in addition to 3 other projects of other nature, and currently works in 3 other publicly funded research and innovation projects, 2 of them as coordinator. His research is carried out in the context of several projects that examine processes of environmental contamination by various pollutants and their risks of toxic exposures as well as their possible interactions with nutritional factors and/or infectious diseases in traditional populations of the Brazilian Amazon and the Cerrado, in addition to others countries (e.g., Colombia), with a view of adopting sustainable development models that take into account the importance of the integrity of ecosystems for better human health. He served as Executive Secretary of the International Association for Ecology and Health (currently Ecohealth International) - https://www.ecohealthinternational.org - from 2009 to 2014, he is a member of the Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health in Latin America and the Caribbean (CoPEH-LAC), and he acts in the academic-scientific chapter of the Permanent Committee for Implementation of the Minamata Convention in Brazil, within the scope of the National Chemical Safety Commission (Conasq), in Brasília (DF). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)