Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation
| Executive Committee | |
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| RCGI Scientific Director | Julio Romano Meneghini |
| RCGI Deputy Scientific Director | Bruno S Carmo |
| Deputy Director (Shell Brasil) | Alexandre Breda |
| RCGI Director for Diffusion of Knowledge | Caetano R Miranda |
| RCGI Director for Technology Transfer & Innovation | Gustavo R S Assi |
| RCGI Senior Consultant | José Augusto P Aranha  |
| Shell Brasil Executive Committee Representative | Pauline Boeira |
| Research Programmes | |
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| RCGI Director of the Nature Based Solutions (NBS) Programme | Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri |
| Mauricio R Cherubin, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) Programme | Liane Marcia Rossi |
| Pedro Vidinha, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) Programme | Marcos Silveira Buckeridge |
| Hamilton Brandão Varela de Albuquerque, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Programme | Emilio Carlos Nelli Silva |
Guenther C Krieger Filho, Deputy Director  |
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| RCGI Director of the Advocacy Programme | Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos |
| Suani Teixeira Coelho, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Engineering Programme | Emílio C N Silva |
| Guenther C Krieger Filho, Deputy Director |
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| RCGI Director of the Physical Chemistry Programme | Reinaldo Giudici |
| Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento, Deputy Director | |
| Rita Maria de Brito Alves, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Energy Policy & Economics Programme | Edmilson M Santos |
| Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa, Deputy Director | |
| Suani T Coelho, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the CO2 Abatement Programme | Julio Meneghini |
| Gustavo Assi, Deputy Director | |
| RCGI Director of the Geophysics Programme | Bruno S Carmo |
| Staff | |
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| RCGI Director of Human Resources and Leadership | Karen Louise Mascarenhas |
| RCGI Executive Manager | Luis Carlos Moreira Gomes |
| RCGI Executive Assistant | Erika Marufuji |
| RCGI Communication Manager | Ana Paula Vasconcelos |
| RCGI Project Supervisor | Luciana de Freitas Laureano |
| RCGI Sr Project Analyst | Lyu Borges |
| RCGI Administrative Assistant | Victor Julian |
| RCGI Information Technology Manager | Antonio Carlos Bastos de Godoi |
| RCGI Information Technology Support | Claudenor Rocha Lima |
| Project Coordinators | |||||
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| NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS (NBS) | "RestoreC": Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion (Esalq-USP) | "AG4C": Maurício Roberto Cherubin (Esalq-USP) Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri (Esalq-USP) - deputy coordinator | "Improving pasture management as NBS for soil carbon sequestration in Brazil": Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri (Esalq-USP) Maurício Roberto Cherubin (Esalq-USP) - deputy coordinator | ||
| CARBON CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION (CCU) | "Band structure engineering of dual absorber semiconductors applied to produce green hydrogen and conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable chemical products": Renato Vitalino Gonçalves (USP São Carlos) Liane Marcia Rossi (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Fine-tuning of electrocatalyst/electrolyte interface for efficient reduction of CO2 and N2 towards added-value chemicals": Susana Inés Córdoba de Torresi (USP) Roberto Manuel Torresi (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Bio-assisted CO2 capture and conversion into bioproducts": Elen Aquino Perpétuo (UNIFESP) Renato Sanches Freire (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Integrating the CO2 and Ethanol Chemistries to make bio-based polyurethanes": Antonio Carlos Bender Burtoloso (USP São Carlos) Liane Marcia Rossi (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Development of catalytic pathways to transform CO2 into chemicals and materials": Liane Marcia Rossi (USP) Pedro Miguel Vidinha Gomes (USP) - deputy coordinator |
| BIOENERGY WITH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE (BECCS) | "Sugarcane and new bioenergy feedstocks": Marcos Silveira Buckeridge (USP) Hamilton Brandão Varela de Albuquerque - (USP São Carlos) - deputy coordinator | "Unlocking potentials in the sugarcane sector: disruptive technologies for a circular economy": Thiago Lopes (USP) Suani Teixeira Coelho (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Efficient use of ethanol for producing hydrogen and electricity": Hamilton Brandão Varela de Albuquerque (USP) Germano Tremiliosi Filho (USP São Carlos) - deputy coordinator | "Applied assessment for the potential of BECCS in Paraná Sedimentary Basin in Brazil": Colombo Celso Gaeta Tassinari (USP) Lucy Gomes Sant'Anna (USP) - deputy coordinator | |
| GREENHOUSE GASES (GHG) | "Greenhouse gas emissions in Amazon and data analytics and service system": Paulo Eduardo Artaxo Netto (USP) José Reinaldo Silva (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Design of smart labyrinth seals for mitigation of GHG emissions in pneumatic machines": Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva (USP) Julio Romano Meneghini (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Optimization-based design of temperature swing adsorption (TSA) systems for CO2 capture from biomass-derived gases at large scale": Marcelo Martins Seckler (USP) | "Chemical looping combustion (CLC) and oxy-fuel combustion with NG and biogas": Guenther Carlos Krieger Filho (USP) | "Novel technologies for CO2 capture: deep eutectic solvents (DES) and advanced materials for membranes for CO2 capture": Julio Romano Meneghini (USP) |
| ADVOCACY | "Development of international standardization and law service proposals for implementing and consolidating legal, regulatory and standardization frameworks to contribute in the brazilian commitments to NDCs - Nationally Determined Contributions: Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos (USP) Dominique Mouette (USP) - deputy coordinator | "Social perception and science diplomacy on technology transitions towards a low carbon society": Sigmar Malvezzi (USP) Karen Louise Mascarenhas (USP) - deputy coordinator |
| Researchers | |||
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| Adriano Grigolo | Adriana Grandis | Adriano Bonangelo Costa | Alan James Peixoto Calheiros |
| Alberto José Fossa | Alberto Setzer | Alessandro Alberto de Lima | Alexandre de Barros Gallo |
| Alexandre Ferreira Guedes Olender | Alexsandro Kirch | Ali Allahyarzadeh Bidgoli | Almir Oliveira Neto |
| Alvaro David Torrez Baptista | Anderson Soares da Costa Azevedo | Andre Avancini Bernardes | André Dantas Freire |
| Andre Luis Ferreira Silva | Andre Luiz da Silva | André Bergsten Mendes | André Kubagawa Sato |
| Andres Felipe Bolanos Acosta | Andressa Bastos da Mota Lima | Ane Auxiliadora Costa Alencar | Antoine Laurain |
| Antonio Esio Bresciani | Antonio Carlos Bender Burtoloso | Arthur Alves Rios Campos | Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga |
| Beatriz Maria Baffa Lima | Benedito Silva Abreu | Bernardo Luiz Harry Diniz Lemos | Breno de Almeida Avancini |
| Beatriz Mayumi Lima | Bruna Toguedani | Bruna Bacaro Borrego | Bruno Henrique Arpini |
| Bruno José Nagy Antonio | Bruno Ramos | Camila Emilia Kozonoe | Carlos Henrique Grohmann Carvalho |
| Carlos Gustavo Tornquist | Carlos Massaiti Okubo Júnior | Carlos Moreira de Souza Junior | Cassius Vinicius Stevani  |
| Celma de Oliveira Ribeiro | Celso von Randow | Cimélio Bayer | Ciro Antonio Rosolem |
| Clara Dybwad | Claudio Rodrigues | Cylon Liaw | Cristiano Alberto de Andrade |
| Dagoberto de Oliveira Silva | Dagoberto de Oliveira Silva | Daiane Iglesia Dolci |
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| Daniel Jonas Dezan | Daniel Prata Vieira | Daniel Vitor Pessoa Damiao | Daniela Milstein |
| Daniela Zanchet | Danilo Oliveira da Silva | David Montenegro Lapola | David Anthony Ham |
| Dener Márcio da Silva Oliveira | Diana Cristina Silva de Azevedo | Diego Hayashi Alonso | Diego Mauricio Riano Pachon |
| Diego Zilli Lima | Diego Miranda de Souza Costa | Douglas Gouvêa | Douglas Gouvêa |
| Elinilson Louras Santos Vinhal | |||
| Elisabete Moreira Assaf | |||
| Erik Eduardo Rego | |||
| Fernando Valdés Ravelo | |||
| Hermes Senger | |||
| Javier Farago Escobar | |||
| João Anderson Isler | |||
| João Baptista Dias Moreira | |||
| Jonas Mendonça Targino | |||
| José Luis de Paiva | |||
| Juliano Fagundes Gonçalves | |||
| Julio César David da Fonseca | |||
| Julio Michael Stern | |||
| Jurandir Itizo Yanagihara | |||
| Karina Tamião | |||
| Kazuo Nishimoto | |||
| Letícia Fernanda Rasteiro | |||
| Luz Dondero | |||
| Manuel Moreno Poveda | |||
| Marcelo Martins Seckler | |||
| Marcelo Ramos Martins | |||
| Marilin Mariano Dos Santos | |||
| Mohammad Mehdi Ghorbani | |||
| Oswaldo Luiz do Valle Costa | |||
| Paulo Bastos de Castro | |||
| Pedro Paulo Fernandes da Silva | |||
| Ricardo Cesare Roman Amigo | |||
| Ricardo Esparta | |||
| Robert W Hewson | |||
| Roberto Ignacio Da Silva | |||
| Ruben Andres Salas Varela | |||
| Sergio Frascino Muller de Almeida | |||
| Silvio De Oliveira Junior | |||
| Solange Kileber | |||
| Thiago Luis Felipe Brito | |||
| Vanessa Garcilasso | |||
| Victor Rocha de Martino | |||
| Wilfredo Montealegre Rubio | |||
| Yuri Flores Albuquerque | |||