Usalq professor is elected member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

The professor of the Department of Soil Science, at the “Luiz de Queiroz" School of Agriculture (USP/ESALQ), Fernando Dini Andreote, has just been named as one of the 5 researchers from the State of São Paulo, all under 40 years old , as an affiliate of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. The mandate is valid for 5 years, from January 1, 2016 until December 31, 2020.

“Personally, this type of appointment was not part of my desires, as I consider it difficult to achieve. I feel very flattered, but equally taken with great responsibility, as I carry our institution with my name, which I want to value and contribute to in the most efficient way possible. I hope that this opportunity will be reflected in new possibilities for the development of the research group in which I work, the Department in which I am allocated and the postgraduate courses of which I am a part", declared the professor.

In addition to Andreote, Daniel José Galafasse Lahr, Luiz Henrique Soares Gonçalves de Lima, Marco Aurélio Ramirez Vinolo and Vanessa Testoni were voters in the São Paulo Region.

Fernando Dini Andreote is Associate Professor in Soil Microbiology ESALQ. Agricultural engineer and PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the same institution, he currently coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Agricultural Microbiology at ESALQ. He works in the area of ​​Soil and Environmental Microbiology, focusing on culture-independent analyzes of microbial communities and metagenomics. He studies microbial communities in natural areas, such as the Atlantic Forest, Caatinga and Mangrove biomes, and in agricultural production areas, with emphasis on sugarcane growing areas.