Antonio Meirelles, appointed for a six-year termAntonio Scarpinetti / Unicamp
São Paulo State Governor Tarcísio de Freitas appointed Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles, dean of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), to the FAPESP Board of Trustees. The position has a term of six years. He will take the place of Ronaldo Aloise Pilli, whose term ended in July. Meirelles earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from the School of Food Engineering (FEA-UNICAMP), a PhD (1987) in thermal process engineering from Technische Hochschule Merseburg, now part of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, and another in economic sciences (1997) from UNICAMP’s Institute of Economics. He was a professor and director of FEA-UNICAMP and associate director of the Center for Food Studies and Research (NEPA). His engineering research focuses on bioenergy, biorefineries, and purification processes for food and agroindustrial products. The technology developed as part of his PhD abroad, now used in plants that account for around 30% of anhydrous alcohol production in Brazil, earned him the 1989 Young Scientist Award from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Meirelles has been dean of UNICAMP since April 19, 2021.
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