Our Team

Meet the Research Team

Amazon PyroCarbon unites a world-class team of scientists from the UK, Brazil, Peru, and Australia. Our team has decades of interdisciplinary experience in the laboratory, field, and modelling analysis of Amazonian soils and vegetation.

Principal Investigators

• Prof. Ted R. Feldpausch (PI-UK)
  • University of Exeter, UK
• Prof. Plínio Barbosa de Camargo (PI-FAPESP, Brazil)
  • University of São Paulo (CENA), Brazil

Co-Investigators

• Prof. Kees Jan van Groenigen
  • University of Exeter, UK
• Prof. Jos Barlow
  • Lancaster University, UK
• Prof. Richard Betts
  • University of Exeter, UK

Research Co-Investigators

• Dr. Lidiany Carvalho
  • University of Exeter, UK
• Dr. Erika Berenguer
  • Lancaster University, UK

FAPESP (Brazil) Partners

• Dr. Luiz Aragão
  • National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
• Dr. Jean Ometto
  • National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
• Prof. Luiz Martinelli
  • University of São Paulo (CENA), Brazil

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr. João Pompeu
• Dr. Wanderlei Bieluczyk
• Dr. Facundo Alvarez
• Dr. Oscar Kennedy-Blundell

Project Partners

• Prof. Michael Bird
  • James Cook University, Australia
• Dr. Eleanor J. Burke
  • UK Met Office, UK
• Dr. Chantelle Burton
  • UK Met Office, UK
• Prof. Ben H. Marimon
  • University of Mato Grosso State (UNEMAT), Brazil
• Dr. Simone Reis
  • Universidade Federal de Acre, Brasil
• Dr. Karina Gonçalves
  • Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica do CENA-USP
• Dr. Sonaira Silva
  • Universidade Federal de Acre, Brasil
• Prof. Beatriz S. Marimon
  • University of Mato Grosso State (UNEMAT), Brazil
• Dr. Marcos Silveira
  • Universidade Federal de Acre, Brasil
• Dr. Paulo Brando
  • Yale University, USA
• Dr. Joice Ferreira
  • EMBRAPA, Brazil
• Marcos Carvalho
  • UNEMAT-Brazil
• Dr. Kita Macário
  • Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
• Prof. Yadvinder Malhi
  • University of Oxford, UK
• Dr. Carlos Quesada
  • National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Brazil

Postgraduate students

• Maurivan Barros Pereira (Brazil)
• Francisca Silvana Silva do Nascimento (Brazil)
• Amauri de Castro Barradas (Brazil)
• Lorena de Souza Fleury (Brazil)
• Gabriel Nunes (Brazil)
• Mario Lucas Medeiros Naval (Brazil)
• Jess Thomas (UK)
• Emily Doyle (UK)

Coordinating Institutions

The PyroCarbon Project is coordinated by the University of Exeter and CENA-Brazil.

Funding

This project was jointly funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and FAPESP-Brazil, project NE/W001691/1

Header image credit: Ted Feldpausch