Paulo Artaxo
University of São Paulo Professor
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Paulo Artaxo is a professor of Environmental Physics at the Institute of Physics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of the IPCC – UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has developed his career working with the Amazon environment and global climate change. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is vice president of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP). He is also vice president of The Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Sciences (SBPC). He received several awards, including the Almirante Álvaro Alberto Award in 2016 and the TWAS Earth Science Prize. He received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He is one of the most cited Brazilian scientists, with 53,528 citations on the Research Gate platform with an “H-index” of 116. He has 64,492 citations on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 117. He was included in the Clarivate Analytics list as belonging to the top 1% of the most cited researchers worldwide in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020.