Sergio Luiz Monteiro Salles Filho

Background in Agronomic Engineering at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (1981); Master in Energy Applied to Agriculture at the Sao Paulo State University- UNESP (1985); PhD in Economics from State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (1993). Presently, is full Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Policy of the Institute of Geosciences at University of Campinas, Brazil. Superintendent of Operational Planning at the Brazilian Innovation Agency - FINEP, from 2001 to 2003, Dean of the School of Applied Sciences at Unicamp from 2010 to 2013, and Dean of the Institute of Geosciences from 2017 to 2021. Visiting Researcher at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research MIoIR between 2013 and 2014. At the University of Campinas, he won the "Zeferino Vaz" Award three times (1998, 2001 and 2009) in recognition of his academic performance. He served for 10 years as impact assessment coordinator at the São Paulo Research Foundation-FAPESP, from 2010 to 2020. He is presently vice-president of the Latin American Network of Innovation Management in Agriculture - INNOVAGRO. His main research areas are economics of technology and innovation; Planning and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation; Impact Assessment; and Prospective and future studies in STI. He authored around 120 publications in journals and books, and has supervised 50 master's and doctoral students. Coordinated around 50 research and extension projects funded by public and private funding agencies. In his career he has assisted several research organizations, government agencies, companies and funding agencies in Brazil and other Latin American countries in the execution of their strategic plans, evaluations and prospective studies. Presently he coordinates the Laboratory of Studies on Research and Innovation Organization - GEOPI. (https://www.ige.unicamp.br/geopi/en/home/) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)