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Manuel Heitor will take part in FAPESP Interdisciplinary School 2024 in Sao Paulo 25/09/2024


Manuel Heitor will participate in FAPESP Interdisciplinary School, taking place between December 8 and 12, 2024, in São Paulo.

This event offers post-doctoral fellows from all over Brazil the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge scientific research developed in the country and abroad in various areas of knowledge. Over the course of five days, they have the opportunity to share their academic careers with other participants, present their work in oral and poster presentations and interact with national and foreign researchers in order to establish lasting professional ties.

FAPESP's School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will have 60 participants, selected from among postgraduate students supported by funding agencies from all over the country. This selection seeks to reflect both geographical diversity and the Brazilian population in terms of gender and race. It will also feature eight guests from Brazil and abroad, with outstanding performance in their areas of knowledge, namely: Andrew Turberfield (University of Oxford), André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho (Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação da USP), Annalisa Buffa (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Lucio Luzzatto (Muhimbili University College of Health and Allied Sciences), Manuel Heitor (Universidade de Lisboa), Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante (Universidade de Brasília) and Rattan Lal (Ohio State University).

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