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I am interested in global climate change, with special emphasis on the role of aerosol particles and clouds on climate. This includes the interaction between aerosol and clouds and their impacts on the hydrological cycle in the Amazonian ecosystem. The radiation balance and the hydrological cycle strongly influence the carbon balance of the forest. Other interests in the Amazonian ecosystem include the long-range transport of Sahara dust and nutrient cycling. Emissions from biomass burning are also a critically important issue that I am interested in. I also work with urban air pollution, especially in megacities, and strategies to identify sources and reduce vehicular and industrial emissions in urban areas.
Prof. Paulo Artaxo graduated in Physics from Universidade São Paulo (1977) with a master's degree in Nuclear Physics from USP (1980) and a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from USP (1985). He worked at NASA (United States), the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Lund (Sweden), and Harvard (United States). He is currently a full professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the USP Physics Institute. He works with physics applied to environmental problems, mainly on issues of global climate change, the environment in the Amazon, atmospheric aerosol physics, urban air pollution, and other topics. He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP). He published 519 scientific works and presented more than 1200 papers at international conferences. He has 73,378 citations in Google Scholar, with an H index in Google Scholar of 127, and 60,202 citations of his works in Research Gate, with an H index of 122. He has published 35 papers in journals in the Science and Nature groups. He is a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and several other international scientific panels. He is the coordinator of the FAPESP Global Climate Change Program and a member of INCT Climate Change. He is vice-president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the São Paulo State (ACIESP), and a member of the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF) Council. In 2004, he received a vote of applause from the Brazilian Senate for his scientific work on the environment in the Amazon. In 2006, he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a member of the IPCC team awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2007, he received the TWAS Earth Sciences Prize and the 2007 Dorothy Stang Science and Humanities Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy Honoris Causa from Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2010, he received the Fissan-Pui-TSI award from the International Aerosol Research Association. He also received the Order of National Scientific Merit in 2010 as commander and in 2018 as Grand Cross. In 2016, he received the Admiral Álvaro Alberto Award granted by CNPq, the Navy, MCTI, and the Conrad Wessel Foundation. He is an Emeritus Researcher at CNPq. In 2017 he received the Globo Faz a Diferença Award. In 2021, he received the CONFAP Science and Technology award; in 2024, he received the PIFI award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was included in the Clarivate Analytics list as belonging to the top 1% of most cited researchers worldwide in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020. In 2022 and 2023, he was the most cited Brazilian scientist in the environmental area, according to Research.com. He is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies (CEAS) at the University of São Paulo.
