
Fellow
Artaxo Paulo
Full Professor of Physics
Current nationality
Brazil
Current country of residence
Brazil
Affiliation / Institution
University of São Paulo
Biodata
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), the universities of Antwerp, Stockholm, and Lund, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. His primary interest lies in global climate change, in research on the Amazon region. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the US AAAS, and a long-time member of the IPCC. He is the vice president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Sciences. He has been honored with numerous prizes, including the Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa title in 2009 from the University of Stockholm and the 2024 PIFI Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He published 519 scientific works and presented more than 1200 papers at international conferences. He has 73,701 citations in Google Scholar, with an H-index of 129, and 61,071 citations of his works in ResearchGate, with an h-index of 123. He has published 35 papers in journals in the Science and Nature groups. He is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies (CEAS) at the University of São Paulo.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Environmental issues; Global climate change; Amazonia; urban air pollution; clouds; radiation balance; aerosol particles.
ELECTED
2009
Place of birth
São Paulo
Country of birth
Brazil
Section
07. Earth, Climate & Environmental Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Prize in Earth Sciences (2007)
Paulo_Artaxo_CV_English_March 2025.pdf
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
Brazil
Public contact information
List of publications
Publications_Paulo_Artaxo_English.pdf
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Last updated on 29/05/2025