Rate My Professor Paulo Artaxo

Paulo Artaxo is a full professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the Institute of Physics of the Universidade de São Paulo. He graduated in Physics from the Universidade de São Paulo in 1977, obtained a master’s degree in Nuclear Physics from the same institution in 1980, and earned a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the Universidade de São Paulo. His research focuses on the physics and chemistry of atmospheric aerosols, their role in the Earth radiation budget, interactions between the Amazon forest and the atmosphere, global climate change, and urban air pollution. Artaxo has led or participated in major international field campaigns, including the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). He has served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports AR4, AR5, and AR6.