Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

PhD in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

On one hand, he continues to do research on the risks of a tipping point of the Amazon forest driven by anthropogenic factor such as global warming, regional deforestation and forest fires. Many observations show that the Amazon is very near a tipping point of savannization of more than 50% of the rainforest. On the other hand, he is also working on the solution space. He started the Amazon Third Way Initiative and the Project Amazonia 4.0 to develop a "standing forest-flowing rivers" innovative bio-economy for the Amazon, based on adding value to the forest products harnessing its immense biological and biomimetic assets.