Paulo Artaxo is a physicist with a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has worked at NASA, University of Antwerp (Belgium), Lund (Sweden) and Harvard University. Currently, he is a professor and head of the Applied Physics department at the Institute of Physics at USP. He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS). Mr. Artaxo coordinated two Millennium Institutes for the Experimento de Grande Escala da Biosfera-Atmosfera na Amazônia [Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazon]. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and seven other international scientific panels. He was a Geosciences coordination member at Fapesp, a Brazilian agency that promotes research, and is a member of the coordination team for Fapesp Global Changes Program and Climate Network from the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2006, he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. In 2007, Mr. Artaxo received the Earth Sciences Award from The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) and the Prêmio Dorothy Stang de Ciências e Humanidades [Dorothy Stang Prize for Sciences and Humanities] awarded by the São Paulo City Council. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He also received the Ordem do Mérito Científico Nacional [Order of National Scientific Merit] and the Prêmio USP Destaque 2010 [UPS Outstanding Researcher 2010] for being the university’s researcher with the most accessed publications.
