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NOBRE, Carlos
Secretary, Secretariat of Research and Development Policies and Programmes, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil
Carlos Nobre graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1974, the Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA) in São José dos Campos. However, since the fourth year of engineering, became interested in the environmental area, more specifically the 'physical environment'. In late 1975, he joined the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) in Manaus. He earned a doctorate in meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he remained from 1977 to 1982, and became involved with dynamic meteorology of the tropical region, working with prof. Jule Charney and dr. J. Shukla.
The great interest in the Amazon region turned his professional activity to the region, participating and coordinating various scientific experiments observational Amazon in the '80s and '90s, for example, the experiment Anglo-Brazilian Amazonian Climate Observations (ABRACOS), 1990 to 1996. In 1988, as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, has developed pioneering studies on the climatic impacts of deforestation in the Amazon.
From 1993 to present, acts as scientific coordinator and led the implementation of Experiment Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), complex set of more than 100 studies and multidisciplinary integrated, targeted to understand the functioning of Amazonian ecosystems due of climate change and those caused by land use, aiming to provide solid scientific support sustainable development in the Amazon. Since 2011 he is Secretary of Research and Development Policies and Programmes for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, in Brazil