Celso Von Randow

Celso von Randow was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on February 21st, 1976. In 1998, he graduated on the Bachelor in Meteorology program at the University of São Paulo, and started his research on micrometeorology and surface-atmosphere exchange processes, at CPTEC (Center for Weather Forecast and Climate Studies), of INPE (National Institute of Space Research). He developed his PhD on Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, The Netherlands, from December 2002 to April 2007 with a thesis entitled “On turbulent exchange processes over Amazonian forest”. Currently, he is a researcher at the Center for Earth System Science of INPE, with interest on biosphere-atmosphere interactions and terrestrial biosphere models.