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Graduated in Geology from Federal University of Pernambuco (1966) and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of California at Davis, USA (1974). Full professor, Federal Univ. Pernambuco. Has experience on igneous petrology and stable isotope geochemistry (isotope chemostratigraphy). Developed post-doctoral work at the Universities of Texas (Austin, 1 year), Georgia at Athens (2 years) and visiting prof. Univ. Wisconsin, Madison (3 months), USA. Traineeship in Newfoundland, Canada (2 months), Tsukuba, Japan (1 month), East Kilbride, Scotland (2 weeks), Lisbon (6 months). Has published 314 articles in international/Brazilian journals (almost all of them in English), 4 books, 31 book chapters, organized 14 special issues (Lithos, Chemical Geol., Earth Sci. Reviews, Gondwana Research, Precambrian Research, Journal of South Amer. Earth Sci. among others). Editorial board of GEOLOGY (3 years), GONDWANA RESEARCH Editorial Board (2 years), Earth Sciences Editorial Board member (2021,USA), Assoc-editor of Frontiers in Earth Sciences (2022), Annals of the Braz. Academy of Sci. (Earth Science Section). Member Brazilian Academy of Sci., Lisbon Academy of Sci., Fellow World Academy of Science (TWAS), National Order of the Scientific Merit (Commendator, 1996; Great Cross, 2006), Silver Hammer Medalist (Braz. Geol. Soc.), Centennial Medal School of Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, PROSE Award winner (AAP, 2019), Fellow of the Geol. Society of America (USA), homages from the 8th South Amer. Symp. of Isotope Geology (2011), and from the International Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related rocks (2015), José Bonifácio Golden Medal Medalist (Braz. Geol. Soc.), Koji Kawashita Golden Medal Medalist (Braz. Geochem. Soc., 2023), Professor Emeritus (UFPE, 2016), Marechal Trompowsky Medal Medalist (IDMM, 2016) and Benjamin Constant gold-grade Medal Medalist (IDMM-PE, 2023). One of the UFPE researchers most influential abroad in his area of expertise in studies from PLOS Biology (2019, 2020, Stanford list 2023).
