Gilberto Camara

Gilberto is the General Director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He served a four-year term as Director from 2005 to 2009 and has been selected to serve a second four-year term from 2010 to 2013.

His research areas are Geoinformatics and Environmental Modelling. He serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Project and on the editorial board of the journals Earth Science Informatics and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Find out more about Gilberto on his INPE pages (http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/)