Artaxo Paulo

Artaxo is a professor of environmental Physics at the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (USP). He has worked at NASA, Harvard University (USA), Antwerp, Stockholm, Lund Universities, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. His primary interest is in global climate change, focusing on the role of aerosol particles in the radiative balance and on environmental issues in Amazonia. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the US AAAS, and a member of the IPCC. He is vice president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Sciences. He has been honored with numerous prizes, such as the Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa title in 2009 at the University of Stockholm and the 2024 PIFI Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is among the most cited Brazilian researchers, with more than 520 papers, 73.378 citations in Google Scholar, and a h-index 127. He has 60.202 citations in the Research ID with an h-index of 122. He published 35 papers in the Science and Nature family of journals. He coordinates the Center for Studies of Amazonian Sustainability from USP.