People

Here you will find our group's researchers and their main interests. Click on the names to know more.

Faculty

Alexandre Lima Correia

Physical interactions between clouds, atmospheric radiation and aerosols.

Luciana Rizzo

Physical and chemical processes of aerosols and trace gases. Biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Urban and forest environments. 

Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado

Atmosphere remote sensing, tropical convection, modelling of cloud-aerosol interactions.

Researchers and Collaborators

Fernando Morais

Carbonaceous aerosol absorption, AERONET solar photometers, and aerosol optical properties.

Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa

Cloud properties at urban and forest sites.

Janaína Nascimento

Global and regional atmospheric modelling, interactions between natural and anthropogenic emissions.

Marcio Teixeira

Data science and machine learning applied to environmental sciences.

Marco Aurélio Franco

Atmospheric aerosols, their physicochemical properties and transformations.

Micael Cecchini

Clouds microphysics, convective clouds over the Amazon, aerosol-cloud interactions.

Samara Carbone

Aerosol chemical composition, size distribution, sources and optical properties.

Staff

Fábio Jorge

Laboratory specialist, technical support.



Fernando Morais

Carbonaceous aerosol absorption, AERONET solar photometers, and aerosol optical properties.

Simara Morais

Administrative secretary, research support, project management.

Post-docs

Amauri Prudente

Simulations of deforestation in the Amazon and Downscaling of Greenhouse Gas Flows.

Carolina Fernandes

Multilevel environmental governance for the implementation of the Brazilian NDC.

Felipe Silva

Biomathematics, Cellular Automata, Fuzzy numbers, Longitudinal data.

Noelia Rojas

Atmosphere remote sensing, modelling soil-atmosphere interactions, Environment Pollution.

PhD students

Ben-hur Portella

Simulation of greenhouse gas flow in the Amazon.

Luan Cordeiro

Modeling carbon fluxes in the Amazon Rainforest.

Pedro Tavares

Evaluation of fine and course mode contributions to the aerosol population in the Amazon Basin.

Rafael Valiati

Vertical gradients and optical properties of aerosol particles in the Amazon Forest.

Thiago Ferreira

Remote sensing of biomass burning and emission inventories.

MSc students

Arthur Luz

Integration of meteorological data into a biodiversity repository

Isabella Marchi

Implementing physical models to simulate the interactions between aerosols, clouds, and trace gases

Undergraduate students

Artur Libanio

Dispersion of pollutants in the urban plume of Manaus.

Daniel Trojan

Completing missing data of pollution measurements in the São Paulo metro area.

Gabriel Barbosa

Chemical properties of inorganic aerosols in the Amazon Rain Forest.

Henrique Teixeira

Optical properties of aerosols in the São Paulo metropolitan area.

Marina Paiva

Concentration of pollutants in the São Paulo metropolitan area.

Former recent members

Guido Haytzmann

A combined view of cloud dynamics and atmospheric composition.

Maurício Toro

Data science, micrometeorological processes, turbulent exchanges of momentum, energy and mass in the biosphere-atmosphere interface.

Mayra Albuquerque

Amazon carbon cyle, remote sensing, above ground biomass and forest productivity.