Dr. Silvio Simoes

Silvio Simões is a Geologist working mainly on subjects such as environmental geology, climate change/natural disasters, geohazards, renewable energy and educational technology. He is also a geospatial analyst expert working with different geotechnology tools such as Geographical Information System (GIS), remote sensing geostatistics and virtual geographic environments. He is a retired associate professor at the Environmental Engineering Department, São Paulo State University (UNESP) which is situated within the Sao Jose dos Campos Technological Park (PqTec-SJC). In the PqTec-SJC, develops actions to improve the collaboration between researchers and entrepreneurs through initiatives and projects involving different enterprises. He was one of those responsible for the implementation of the Graduate Program on Natural Disaster (Master and Doctorate levels) which is a partnership UNESP and Cemaden (Brazilian Center for Early Warning and Monitoring of Natural Disasters). This newly created program is the first at the doctoral level in South America. He is a member of the AI2 (Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence) which is a Brazilian consortium of researchers to attack challeging problems with high social and economic impacts through support of the private sector. Currently, he lives in Copenhagen, Denmark to develop actions and initiatives to explore the new concepts of geospatial analysis and its interactions with data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, 3D modeling and virtual reality enabling acquire new knowledge applied to the natural world, environment, renewable energy and education.