Paulo Pontes holds a PhD in Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation from the Hydraulic Research Institute (IPH) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

He works as an adjunct researcher at ITV DS, developing projects in hydrology, hydrological modeling, climate change, geoprocessing, and remote sensing, with a focus on the Amazon region and the river basins of southeastern Brazil.

He is a professor in the Professional Master’s Degree in Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Tropical Regions at ITV DS. He has teaching experience at the University of Vale do Sinos (Unisinos) and has worked as a consultant on river basin plans and hydroelectric sector projects, contributing to the sustainable management of water resources.

Tereza Giannini holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of São Paulo (USP) and is a biologist at the same university’s Institute of Biosciences, having worked at the Naturalis Museum in Leiden, Holland, and at the Center for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, Scotland. As an associate researcher at ITV DS, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biodiversity databases at USP’s Polytechnic School, including a research period at the University of Rio Negro in Bariloche, Argentina.

Rosane Cavalcante holds a PhD and a master’s degree in Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). As a researcher at ITV DS, she has experience in water resource management, hydrodynamic modeling, forest hydrology, meteorology, and ecophysiology.

Renata Tedeschi holds a PhD in Meteorology from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), a master’s degree in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, and a degree in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Exeter, England. As a researcher at ITV DS, she has experience in climatology, with an emphasis on precipitation, El Niño and La Niña phenomena (ENOS), extreme events, and types of ENOS (Modoki and Canonical).

Nikolas Carneiro holds a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). At ITV DS, he works in the areas of information visualization and non-conventional interaction.

Gabriel Salomão holds a PhD in Mineralogy and Geochemistry from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), a master’s degree in the same field, and a bachelor’s degree in Geology, also from UFPA, including an academic exchange at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

He has been an adjunct researcher at the Vale Institute of Technology Sustainable Development (ITV DS) since 2021, coordinating the Geochemical Background of the Iron Quadrangle project.

He has experience in environmental geochemistry, geochemical mapping and background studies, geochemical prospecting, applied statistics, geoprocessing, and remote sensing. Salomão was a research fellow at ITV and participated in international cooperation with the UNESCO International Center on Global-Scale Geochemistry in China. He worked as a trainee at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia, where he conducted research using portable spectroscopic techniques on drones. He has also carried out laboratory activities in U-Pb geochronology (LA-ICP-MS) with the TRaX group.

Ronnie Alves holds a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Minho. He is a senior researcher and leader of the Environmental Intelligence group at ITV DS. He has worked as a visiting researcher at international universities and as a postdoctoral fellow at renowned institutions. He is also a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Computer Science at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA).