{"id":484854,"date":"2023-07-05T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=484854"},"modified":"2023-07-05T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:00:15","slug":"fapesp-appoints-new-scientific-director-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fapesp-appoints-new-scientific-director-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FAPESP appoints new scientific director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_484819\" style=\"max-width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-484819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RPF-notas-marcio-de-castro-2023-05-site-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RPF-notas-marcio-de-castro-2023-05-site-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RPF-notas-marcio-de-castro-2023-05-site-600-250x350.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/RPF-notas-marcio-de-castro-2023-05-site-600-120x168.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Marcos Santos \/USP Imagens<\/span>Castro, a professor at ESALQ-USP and former director at CAPES<span class=\"media-credits\">Marcos Santos \/USP Imagens<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Agronomist M\u00e1rcio de Castro Silva Filho was appointed scientific director of FAPESP, starting from April 2023, by S\u00e3o Paulo State Governor Tarc\u00edsio de Freitas. Castro, whose appointment published in the <em>Di\u00e1rio Oficial do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em> (S\u00e3o Paulo State&#8217;s official gazette) on April 6, was chosen from a list of three candidates prepared by the foundation&#8217;s Board of Trustees. The other two names put forward were Edgar Dutra Zanotto, a materials engineering professor at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos (UFSCar), and Antonio Jos\u00e9 Roque da Silva, a physicist and general director of the Brazilian Center for Energy and Materials Research (CNPEM) in Campinas. The new scientific director will replace neuroscientist Luiz Eug\u00eanio Ara\u00fajo de Moraes Mello, who held the position since 2020 and decided not to seek a second term. Castro Filho, 62, has a degree in agronomic engineering and a master&#8217;s degree in genetics and plant improvement from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) in Minas Gerais, and a PhD in molecular biology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. He was a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Ohio State University, USA, a member of the Brazilian National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBIO), and president of the National Forum of Deans of Research and Graduate Studies (FOPROP). He has also served as head of biological sciences, director of international relations, and director of scholarships and programs at the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). He is currently a professor at the Department of Genetics of the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (ESALQ-USP), a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC), and a member of the S\u00e3o Paulo State Academy of Sciences (ACIESP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agronomist M\u00e1rcio de Castro Silva Filho appointed new scientific director of FAPESP","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[228],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-484854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484855,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484854\/revisions\/484855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484854"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=484854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}