FAPESP Week Munich

FAPESP Week Munich will take place from October 15th to 17th, 2014 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.

The FAPESP Week symposia connect leading scientists from the State of São Paulo, Brazil with colleagues from other countries. In 2014, FAPESP Week will happen in Germany for the first time, taking advantage of the regional partnership between the State of São Paulo and the Free State of Bavaria.

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Program

FAPESP Week Munich 2014

Date: 15th –17th of October 2014
Place: Deutsches Museum Munich, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 Munich

15th of October – Launch of the event and exhibition opening “Brazilian Nature”
19:00 – 22:30 – Deutsches Museum Munich, Centre for New Technologies and Foyer of the library


16th of October
08:30 – 17:00 – Deutsches Museum Munich, Anteroom, Hall of Fame and Academy Collection & Museum History

Start Duration Activity Place
08:30 00:30 Registration Anteroom
09:00 00:30 Opening Ceremony Hall of Fame
09:30 Moderator: Prof. Dr. Euclides de Mesquita Neto, Coordinator for the area of Engineering (Engineering II), FAPESP Hall of Fame
09:30 00:20 Keynote Speech:
Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider, President, German Research Foundation (DFG)		 Hall of Fame
09:50 00:10 Q+A Hall of Fame
10:00 00:20 Keynote Speech:
Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth, Vicepresident, Max Planck Society		 Hall of Fame
10:20 00:10 Q+A Hall of Fame
10:30 00:40 Talk:
Prof. Dr. Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director, FAPESP – “Science and Technology in São Paulo” PDF		 Hall of Fame
11:10 00:10 Q+A Hall of Fame
11:20 00:20 Coffee break and matchmaking Academy Collection & Museum History
11:40 01:30 Panel Discussion:
“International Scientific Collaboration and Networking and Excellence in Universities – Good Practices”
Moderator: – Prof. Dr. José Arana Varela, Chief Executive Officer, FAPESP
– Prof. Dr. Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director, FAPESP
- Dr. Raoul Klingner, Director International Business Development, Fraunhofer Society
– Dr. Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
– Christian Müller, Director Department of Strategy and Knowledge Management, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)		 Hall of Fame
13:10 01:00 Lunchtime Academy Collection & Museum History
14:10 00:10 Theme 1: Biotechnology
Chair: Professor Dr. Horst Domdey, Managing Director, BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH		 Hall of Fame
14:20 00:20 Prof. Dr. Miriam Galvonas Jasiulionis, Escola Paulista de Medicina / UNIFESP – “Epigenetics: a way environment talks with our genome” Hall of Fame
14:40 00:20 Dr. Marcus Conrad, Teamleader, Institute of Development Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München –”R?Scue Therapeutics: Novel Drugs to Combat Degenerative Disease” Hall of Fame
15:00 00:20 Prof. Dr. Raghuvir Krishnaswamy Arni, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) – “Enzyme Mechanisms and Inhibition by Mimicry” Hall of Fame
15:20 00:20 Dr. Christiane Geiger, Associate Director Dendritic Cell Vaccines, Trianta Immunotherapies GmbH, A subsidiary of Medigene AG – “A new generation dendritic cell vaccine for immunotherapy of cancer” Hall of Fame
15:40 00:10 Q + A Hall of Fame
15:50 00:20 Coffee break and matchmaking Academy Collection & Museum History
16:10 00:10 Theme 2: Nanotechnology and Photonics
Chair: Prof. Dr. Alfred Forchel, President, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Managing Director, Nanoinitiative Bayern GmbH		 Hall of Fame
16:20 00:20 Prof. Dr. Sven Höfling, Applied Physics University of Würzburg and University of St. Andrews – “An electrically pumped polariton nanolaser” Hall of Fame
16:40 00:20 Prof. Dr. Thiago Pedro Mayer Alegre, University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – “Optomechanics in phononic and photonic crystals” Hall of Fame
17:00 00:20 Dr. Stefan Lyer, Deputy Head, Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON), Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) – “Nanomedicine – The SEON Concept” Hall of Fame
17:20 00:20 Prof. Dr. Alioscka Augusto C. A. Sousa, Escola Paulista de Medicina / UNIFESP – “The bio-nano interface: Probing the interactions of proteins with ultrasmall gold nanoparticles” Hall of Fame
17:40 00:10 Q + A Hall of Fame
17:50 00:10 Closing for the day Hall of Fame


17th of October
08:30 – 17:00 – Deutsches Museum Munich, Hall of Fame and Academy Collection & Museum History

Start Duration Activity Place
08:30 00:30 Registration Anteroom
09:00 00:10 Theme 3: Energy
Chair: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hamacher, Full Professor, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM) PDF		 Hall of Fame
09:10 00:20 Prof. Dr. Denis Vinicius Coury, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – “Smart Grids – An important step towards the modernization and automation of electrical energy systems” Hall of Fame
09:30 00:20 Prof. Dr. Jürgen Karl, Head, Chair of Energy Process Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) – “Renewable Fuels – Chemical storage options for the German “Energiewende”” Hall of Fame
09:50 00:20 Prof. Dr. Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi, University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – “Flexibilizing the Brazilian Power system: moving beyond large hydro plants with new technologies and energy efficiency” PDF Hall of Fame
10:10 00:20 Coffee break and matchmaking Academy Collection & Museum History
10:30 00:20 Prof. Dr. Thomas Hamacher, Full Professor, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TUM – “Integration of renewable energies” PDF Hall of Fame
10:50 00:20 Prof. Dr. Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Biosciences Institute, University of São Paulo (USP) – “Sugarcane genome sequence” PDF Hall of Fame
11:10 00:20 Prof. Dr. Roland Zink, Professor Space Sciences and Systems of Information, GIS Implementation, Basics of Spatial Science, Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT) – “Sustainable rural development through renewable energies: Photovoltaic in lower Bavaria” PDF Hall of Fame
11:30 00:30 Q + A
12:00 01:30 Lunchtime Academy Collection & Museum History
13:30 00:10 Theme 4: Human – Environment Relation
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, Director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies		 Hall of Fame
13:40 00:20 Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr, Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) – “In the Garbage: Perspectives from the Americas” Hall of Fame
14:00 00:20 Prof. Dr. Ricardo Abramovay, The School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP) – “Carbon budget and carbon trap: a new climate agenda, beyond Kyoto” PDF Hall of Fame
14:20 00:20 Prof. Dr. Claudia Binder, Chair, Human Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) – “Pesticide Management in developing countries: an integrative approach” Hall of Fame
14:40 00:20 Prof. Dr. Gilberto Camara Neto, INPE, E-sensing – “Using big Earth Observation data to monitor global land use and land cover change” Hall of Fame
15:00 00:20 Q + A Hall of Fame
15:20 00:20 Final discussion Hall of Fame
15:40 00:20 Closing for the day Hall of Fame
16:00 00:30 Closure with refreshments Academy Collection & Museum History
16:30 01:00 End of the event Academy Collection & Museum History / Anteroom
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