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Coordinated Call for Research Proposals on Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuels
Published on September 15, 2015PARTNERSHIP FACILITATION WORKSHOPS The workshops related to this call will provide an opportunity to strengthen the dialogue between laboratory, industrial and government partnerships between Brazilian and European actors in the area of Biofuels, exploiting synergies in terms of scientific expertise and resources by implementing coordinated projects. EU-Brazil Workshop: Coordinated Call on Advanced [...] -
FAPESP and BBSRC announce call for proposals
Published on September 15, 2015The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in São Paulo, Brazil and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the UK announce a joint call for collaborative research proposals that underpin integrated biorefinery approaches for the manufacture of advanced biofuels. The purpose of this call is to build on the strengths of academic research groups in Brazil and the UK and allow them to work together on collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects relevant to the [...] -
Joint FAPESP-BBSRC Call for Collaborative Proposals in Integrated Biorefinery Approaches for the Manufacture of Advanced Biofuels
Published on September 15, 2015The guidelines defining conditions for the submission of the coordinated Brazilian proposals are available at: www.fapesp.br/en/9777 Closing date: 25/11/2015 * 1. SUMMARY The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in Brazil www.fapesp.br/en and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the UK www.bbsrc.ac.uk are pleased to announce a joint call for collaborative research proposals that underpin integrated biorefinery approaches for the [...] -
FAPESP and NERC will support research in Sustainable Gas Futures
Published on September 11, 2015The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are inviting research proposals under a new “Sustainable Gas Futures” call. This call is supported by the UK through the Newton Fund and is only open to joint UK-Brazil applications. NERC will provide up to £1,000,000.00 of funding to eligible UK-based researchers and São Paulo partner organizations will match this with equivalent research effort to eligible researchers associated to [...] -
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
Published on September 11, 2015Steering Committees for Special Programs - FAPESP Research Program on eScience and Data Science Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (PhD Computer Science - University of Waterloo, Canada) is a full professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Conducts research in scientific data management, particularly with challenges associated with data heterogeneity, volume and complexity, for various types of real-world applications. President of the Brazilian Computer [...] -
Announcement of Opportunity (AO)/Call for Proposals (CFP): Sustainable Gas Futures
Published on September 10, 2015Call Published: September 11, 2015 Application Deadline: 16:00 (GMT) 10 November 2015 1. Summary The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) are inviting research proposals under this ‘Sustainable Gas Futures’ call. This call is supported by the UK through the Newton Fund, which forms part of the UK governments Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment. The AO/CFP is only open to joint UK-Brazil [...] -
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Published on September 04, 2015Steering Committees for Special Programs - FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change Jean P. Ometto is currently Senior Researcher at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research and Dean of the Earth System Science Centre. Associate professor in the Ecology Post Graduate programs at the CCST/INPE, UFJF and UNESP. Ometto worked extensively on evaluating uncertainties associated to above ground biomass estimates and its effects on carbon emissions, at local and regional scales. [...] -
FAPESP and Intel announce new call for proposals
Published on September 02, 2015FAPESP and Intel announce a new call for proposals to select and fund academic research on hardware implementation aspects of post-quantum cryptography. Open to public or private higher education or research institutions in the State of São Paulo, it is the third call under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. With the rapid development of quantum computing technology comes the potential for polynomial-time algorithms for solving the ostensibly hard mathematical problems [...] -
FAPESP and Intel Call for Proposals - 2015
Published on August 31, 2015FAPESP AND INTEL CALL FOR PROPOSALS (CFP) INTRODUCTION FAPESP and Intel invite interested researchers from public or private higher education or research institutions in the State of São Paulo to submit research proposals for funding under the cooperation agreement between FAPESP and Intel, and under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. SUBJECT Academic research on hardware implementation aspects of post-quantum cryptography. Proposed investigations, while hardware-focused in [...] -
Alexandre Xavier Falcao
Published on August 31, 2015Area Panel - Computer Science Alexandre Xavier Falcao is full professor at the Institute of Computing (IC), University of Campinas (Unicamp). He currently holds a research productivity fellowship (level 1A) from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), is Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, member of the editorial board of the journal, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, and has [...] -
José Roberto de França Arruda
Published on August 28, 2015Adjunct Panel - Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Engineering Adjunct Panel - Special Programs and Collaboration in Research Full Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Campinas, he was a visiting scholar with Virginia Tech in 1991, with KU Leuven in 1996, with the Acoustics Laboratory of Le Mans in 2004, and with many other French Engineering Schools since then. Over the years, he has published over 50 journal papers, over 100 international [...] -
Karl Heinz Kienitz
Published on August 26, 2015Area Panel - Engineering (Engineering I) Karl Kienitz earned a diploma in Electronics Engineering (1983) and a master's degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering (1985) at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil. He holds a PhD (1990) in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ). After serving the Brazilian Air Force as an Engineering Officer for more than a decade, he joined ITA’s faculty where he is currently a [...] -
Sonia Regina Loureiro
Published on August 24, 2015Area Panel - Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of the Department of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science of Ribeirão Preto Medical School - University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP). Graduate degree in Psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto , Master’s in Clinical Psychology from the University of São Paulo and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of São Paulo. Developing research in the area of Psychological Treatment and [...] -
Marta Arretche
Published on August 24, 2015Adjunct Panel - Humanities and Social Sciences, Architecture and Economy Marta Arretche is full professor of the Departament of Political Science at the University of São Paulo and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, one of the FAPESP CEPIDs. She was editor-in-chief of the Brazilian Political Science Review (2012-8) and vice-provost for research at USP (2016-8). She got her BA in Social Science from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, her master [...] -
Marcelo Finger
Published on August 20, 2015Area Panel - Computer Science Marcelo Finger is Professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, CNPq research grant receiver level 1B, editor of The Scientific World Journal and the Sao Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences, published special issues in journals such as the Annals of Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Theoretical Computer Science (2014). Received his BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of [...]