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.

Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa

Cloud properties at urban and forest sites.

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.

Janaína Nascimento

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

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.

Marcio Teixeira

Data science and machine learning applied to environmental sciences.

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.

Mayra Albuquerque

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

Rafael Valiati

Vertical gradients and fluxes of gases and aerosol particles in the Amazon.

Thiago Ferreira

Remote sensing of biomass burning and emission inventories.

MSc students

Guido Haytzmann

Processes for trace gases and organic carbon variability in the Amazon.

Undergraduate students

Artur Libanio

Dispersion of pollutants in the urban plume of Manaus.

Gabriel Barbosa

Chemical properties of inorganic aerosols in the Amazon Rain Forest.

Marina Paiva

Concentration of pollutants in the São Paulo metropolitan area.

Pedro Tavares

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