Paulo de Souza

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Professor Paulo de Souza is the Executive Dean of the School of Engineering.

A disrupter and transformational advocate for impactful research outcomes and real-world educational delivery, Paulo has spent the last two decades bridging science, industry and society, with the application of engineering to solve unique problems: spanning the critical struggle of our fragile ecosystems, improving industrial processes to the discovery of habitable environments on the surface of Mars. Paulo transformed industrial, research and academic portfolios under his leadership while accelerating performance across all aspects of the business.

Prior to joining ECU, Paulo was Dean (Research) at Griffith University, Science Director and Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, Collaborating Scientist with NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover program and worked in consultancy, mining and steelmaking industry in South America and Europe. He co-authored the series of papers identified at the 2004 Breakthrough of the Year by Science Magazine. Paulo is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a Professional Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a member of the ARC College of Experts. Paulo is a Physicist with a master’s in mechanical engineering from UFES (Brazil) and has a Doctoral degree (Dr rer. nat.) from Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Griffith University

Education

  • 2004 
    Johannes Gutemberg, Doctor of Natural Sciences
  • 2000 
    Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, M.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering)
  • 1999 
    Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, B.S. (Physics)

Publications

  • 2019
    Open data could have helped us learn from another mining dam disaster, DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0063-0
  • 2012
    Ancient Impact and Aqueous Processes at Endeavour Crater, Mars, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/570
  • 2010
    Innovation in Industrial Research, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6352.htm
  • 2009
    Exploration of Victoria Crater by the Rover Opportunity, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5930/1058
  • 2008
    Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5879/1063.abstract
  • 2007
    Pyroclastic Activity at Home Plate in Gusev Crater, Mars, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5825/738
  • 2005
    Water alteration of rocks and soils on Mars at the Spirit rover site in Gusev crater, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/abs/nature03640.html
  • 2005
    An integrated view of the chemistry and mineralogy of martian soils, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/abs/nature03637.html
  • 2005
    Indication of drier periods on Mars from the chemistry and mineralogy of atmospheric dust, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/abs/nature03807.html
  • 2004
    Jarosite and Hematite at Meridiani Planum from Opportunity's Mössbauer Spectrometer, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1740.abstract
  • 2004
    Basaltic Rocks Analyzed by the Spirit Rover in Gusev Crater, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5685/842
  • 2004
    Mineralogy at Gusev Crater from the Mössbauer Spectrometer on the Spirit Rover, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/305/5685/833.abstract

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Computer Society

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