Mr. Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
University of Campinas, Brazil
Mr. Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Brazil), Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Senior Vice President (Elsevier), and Professor Emeritus; Elsevier Research Networks; Physics Institute, University of Campinas
Brito Cruz is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and a Senior Vice-President, Research Networks at Elsevier, UK.
He has been as a Professor at the Physics Institute, Unicamp, Brazil, directed the Physics Institute, and was the VP Research at Unicamp. He worked as a scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He served as the President of the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP and the President of Unicamp. From 2005 to 2020 he has been the Science Director at FAPESP. He presided the Council for Technology and Competitiveness at the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), has been a member of industrial advisory boards, as well as high-level academic committees and boards. He is a member of the Council of the United Nations University and of the judging panel for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Brito Cruz is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and of the American Physical Society. He received the Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil), the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France), and the Order of the British Empire (OBE).