About me

I am a Brazilian physicist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) - University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. I hold a Ph.D. degree in Physics, obtained at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, on September 15th, 2021, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paulo Artaxo, where I worked focused on the effects and connections between meteorology and ultrafine aerosols (particles with diameters below 50 nm) in central Amazonia, with measurements conducted at the ATTO (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory) site. During my Ph.D., I spent 13 months working at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), in Mainz, Germany, supervised by Dr. Christopher Pöhlker. My Ph.D. thesis (in English) can be accessed here! I also hold a Master's degree in Applied Physics, obtained at the São Carlos Institute of Physics of USP and Embrapa Instrumentation, under supervision of Dr. Paulino Ribeiro Villas Boas, and a bachelor in Physics, obtained at Department of Physics of the Federal University of São Carlos, whose undergraduate research was also supervised by Dr. Paulino Ribeiro Villas Boas. My dissertation (in Portuguese) can be accessed here.

Research interests

I study the intricate relationship between atmospheric meteorological mechanisms and the physical and chemical properties of atmospheric aerosols. My primary interests revolve around understanding the mechanisms behind secondary aerosol formation, the processes through which aerosols age, and the radiative impacts of aerosols on the climate. Furthermore, I am actively engaged in studying the complex interplay between greenhouse gases, meteorology, air pollutants, and land use change in different environments such as the Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic biomes and complex urban regions like the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo.

I work in the following research fields: life cycle of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases in tropical forests and urban regions; relationships between atmospheric pollutant emissions, greenhouse gases, meteorology, and land use; statistical and machine learning modeling of atmospheric pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, and their relationships with land use and meteorology; and the development of instrumentation applied to atmospheric sciences.

Watch here my recent public seminar about land use change in the Amazon: amplifying greenhouse gas emissions and drought conditions.

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Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) photographed by me near the Rhine River in Mainz, Germany.