Researchers in 2016

Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology / MAE-USP) - "Ontology and Epistemology of an (Inter)discipline: Archaeology as a Paradigm of Interdisciplinarity and its Theoretical and Practical Implications"

Astolfo Araujo is a geologist with a MA and a PhD in Archaeology. During his PhD he spent one year at the Department of Anthropology, University of Seattle, USA. Coming back to Brazil he worked during several years at the Department of Historical Heritage, São Paulo City, until being hired by the University of São Paulo in 2007. Presently he is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at the University of Exeter, UK. His main line of research is linked to the application of methods from Earth Sciences into Archaeology. From the theoretical point of view, his interests are related to the application of evolutionary thought in human affairs (inside a long time perspective given by Archaeology), and the exploration of Archaeology's interdisciplinary character.

Dária Gorete Jaremtchuk (School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities / EACH-USP and School of Communications and Arts / ECA-USP),  - "Artistic Exile: Movement of Brazilian Artists to New York During the 1960s and 1970s"

Professor of Art, Literature and Culture in Brazil and History of Art at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo University (EACH / USP), Brazil. Collaborator in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Communication and Arts (ECA / USP), Department of Visual Arts, where she directs theses on contemporary art.  At present she is a research fellow of the Research Productivity Program, sponsored by The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She is currently researching the relocation of Brazilian artists during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and the relationship between art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s.

Flávio Ulhoa Coelho (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics / IME-USP) - "History of Algebraic Thinking and its Didactic Splits"

Mathematician, he got the degrees BSc (1982), MSc (1985) and Full Professor (1993) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD  (1990) from the University of Liverpool, UK. He has a position at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (IME-USP) since 1985, being a full professor since 2003. His research area is Algebra, working mainly in Representation Theory. He is researcher of the CNPq since 1991. He held several management positions in academia, including  Head of the Departament of Mathematics (2002-2006); Vice-Dean  (2006-2010) and  Dean of the  IME-USP (2010-2014). He was member of the Academic  Activities Commission (2010-2013) and of the Central Commission of Academic Evaluation (2011-2015), both admisory committes of the University  Council of USP.  Member of the Board of the São Paulo State Academy of Science and representative of the IME-USP in the Center of History of Science. He is the author of four textbooks in mathematics. He is also a writer, having published six books (collections of short stories and novels). Researcher at the Institute of Advances Studies of USP in the Sabbatical Year program in 2016, his study theme is “History of Algebraic Thinking and its Didactic Splits”.

Lucia Maciel Barbosa de Oliveira (School of Communications and Arts / ECA-USP) - "Contemporary Cultural Dynamics: Overlapping of Singularities, Collectives, Technologies and Cultural Institutions in the Common Perspective"

Professor and researcher at the Department of Information and Culture of USP's School of Communications and Arts, and of the Graduation Programme in Information Science. She holds a PhD in Information Science, specifically Information and Culture, having Action and Cultural Mediation as her research field. She is a master in Communication Sciences, graduated in History and holds a degree in History from the School of Education. Her interests are related to cultural action and policy. Author of Corpos Indisciplinados: ação cultural em tempos de biopolítica ('Undisciplined Bodies: cultural action in biopolitics times'), Nossos comerciais, por favor! A Escola Superior de Guerra e a televisão brasileira ('Our commercials, please! The High Education of War and Brazilian television') and Biblioteca escolar e circuitos culturais ('School library and cultural circuits'). She develops the projects 'Culture and City Platform: Contemporary Cultural Dynamics' and 'Which are the cultural policies for the 21st century?'

Maria de los Angeles Gasalla (Oceanographic Institute / IO-USP) - "The Future of Marine-dependent Societies: Climate Change, Innequalities and Cooperation in Complex Socio-ecological Systems"

Professor Gasalla holds a PhD in Oceanography, a MSc in Biological Oceanography and a BSc in Biology, and became a fisheries scientist after a 10-year position at a public research body in Brazil and scientific opportunities at international institutions (e.g. Canada, Spain, Denmark, Mexico and Argentina) where she studied ecosystem and stock assessment modelling but also social sciences and economics. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo’s Oceanographic Institute (IOUSP) and head of the Fisheries Ecosystems Laboratory where interdisciplinary research and capacity building in contemporary fisheries science have been a focus. She is currently a researcher of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) developing and testing innovative approaches to integrate different fisheries issues in the context of complex marine social-ecological systems. She has also been serving as a member of scientific international committes related to the oceans, fisheries and global climate change (IMBER, FAO). Her research projects include quantitative models, integrative science, and strategic analysis exploring indicators of sustainability, vulnerability and innovation. She has been involved in scientific and local basis for ocean resource management, marine biodiversity, fishing communities, fisheries economics, and their associated biophysical processes.  Mary has several publication in Brazil and abroad, incluing participation in the books “World Fisheries: a Social Ecological Analysis” and “Contemporary Visions of World Small Scale Fisheries” (2011). She is currently guest editor of the journal Maritime Studies (Springer) for a thematic series on Latin America. She is interested in theorethical approaches and empirical applications related to the governance of aquatic ecosystems, and on the integration of natural and social sciences.

Rodolfo Nogueira Coelho de Souza (College of Philosophy, Sciences and Humanities / FCLRP-USP) - "Invention of an Opera: Pascal's Machine in Pernaguá"

Associate professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Music Department of the College of Philosophy, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP-USP). He also teaches and advises at the Graduate Program in Music of the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). Previously, from 2000 through 2005, he was professor at the Department of Arts at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). He has a Bachelor degree in engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, a Master in Musicology from the ECA-USP and a DMA in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin (UT). He also developed, in 2009, a post-doctoral research at UT. His main fields of interest in music are composition for instruments and electronic sounds, analysis of modern music and computer music. His most recent research dealt with topics of Analysis of Brazilian Modern and Romantic Music, Computer Assisted Composition and Post-Tonal Theory. He coordinates the LATEAM (Laboratory of Music Theory and Analysis) at the DM-FFCLRP-USP and is editor of Musica Theorica (TeMA’s – Brazilian Association of Music Theory and Analysis online academic journal). Among is music compositions we may highlight The Book of Sounds (2010) for symphony orchestra and electronic sounds, Concerto for Computer and Orchestra (2000) and Tristes Trópicos (1991) for symphony orchestra. During the year of 2016, for the Sabbatical Program of the IEA, he is developing the project “Invention of an Opera: ‘Pascal’s Machine in Pernaguá’: a research in experimental art and sound technology innovation”.