35 Notable alumni of
State University of Campinas
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The State University of Campinas is 1339th in the world, 53rd in Latin America, and 15th in Brazil by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the State University of Campinas sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dilma Rousseff
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. Since March 2023, she has been the Chair of the New Development Bank. She also served in the cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his first presidency—first as Minister of Mines and Energy, from 2003 to 2005, then as Chief of Staff from 2005 to 2010.
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Gabriel Braga Nunes
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Gabriel Braga Nunes is a Brazilian actor, best known for his work in telenovelas, specially Essas Mulheres, Cidadão Brasileiro, Caminhos do Coração and Poder Paralelo. He also stars in Insensato Coração for TV Globo.
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Monica Iozzi
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- voice actorjournalisttelevision presenteractor
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Monica Iozzi de Castro is a Brazilian actress and reporter.
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Petrônio Gontijo
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Petrônio Gontijo de Alvarenga is a Brazilian actor.
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva
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- screenwriterwriterjournalistdramaturge
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Marcelo Rubens Paiva is a Brazilian novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the son of Rubens Paiva, who was murdered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. The impact of his father's disappearance on his family's life, especially on his mother, Eunice Paiva, is portrayed in his autobiography Ainda estou aqui (2015) which was adapted to film in 2024.
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Daniel Everett
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- university teacherwritermissionarylinguist
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Daniel Leonard Everett is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon basin's Pirahã people and their language.
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Aloizio Mercadante
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- politicianministereconomist
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Aloizio Mercadante Oliva is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999, then state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil, and in 2012 he became Minister of Education, due to Fernando Haddad's departure to run for mayor of São Paulo.
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Alexandre Padilha
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- politicianphysician
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Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha is a Brazilian physician and politician affiliated with the Workers Party. He serves as minister of Institutional Relations in the current government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a position he previously held from 2009 to 2011. He served as minister of health under Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of São Paulo state in the 2014 election. On 1 January 2023, he was once again named Secretary of Institutional Affairs by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who reinstated the office.
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José Graziano da Silva
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistagronomist
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José Graziano da Silva is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil. Between 2003 and 2004, Graziano served in the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cabinet as Extraordinary Minister for Food Security, being responsible for implementing the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) program, which was a focal point of the Lula Administration's cash transfer program Bolsa Familia. On June 26, 2011, Graziano was elected director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), becoming the first Latin American ever to hold the position. After his first term from 1 January 2012 to 31 July 2015, Graziano da Silva was re-elected for a second 4 year-term (1 August 2015 to 31 July 2019) during FAO's 39th Conference.
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Simão Jatene
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- politicianeconomist
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Simão Robison Oliveira Jatene is the former Governor of the Brazilian state of Pará.
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Ricardo Galvão
- Enrolled in the State University of Campinas
- 1970-1972 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- physicistengineer
- Biography
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Ricardo Magnus Osório Galvão is a prominent Brazilian physicist and engineer, formerly the Director-General of the National Institute for Space Research. He is a full Professor of the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Institute of Physics and councilman of the European Physical Society. Galvão has occupied major positions within the Brazilian Physics community such as the presidency of the Brazilian Physical Society (2013–2016) and the directorship of the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (2004–2011).
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Néstor Perlongher
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- short story writerpoetwriteranthropologistsociologist
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Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher was an Argentine poet and anthropologist.
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Paulo Renato Souza
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- politicianeconomist
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Paulo Renato Costa Souza was a Brazilian economist and politician.
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Marco Aurélio Garcia
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- politician
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Marco Aurélio Garcia was a Brazilian politician, as a member of the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores). He was a professor of Latin American History on leave from UNICAMP University and a left idealist. He was previously professor at the Latin American Social Science Faculty of the University of Chile and of the Paris-VIII and Paris-X universities.
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Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
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- teacherchemist
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Marcos Nogueira Eberlin is a Brazilian chemist and former professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Campinas. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and received the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit in 2005 and the Thomson Medal in 2016.
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Luiz Mott
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- honorary chairpersonpoliticianhistoriananthropologistsociologist
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Luiz Roberto de Barros Mott or Luiz Mott in São Paulo, is an anthropologist and a gay rights activist in Brazil.
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Edmilson Costa
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Edmilson Silva Costa is a Brazilian economist, college professor and politician affiliated to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB), serving as the party's General Secretary. He is a Doctor of Economics at the State University of Campinas.
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Carlos Lessa
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- university teachereconomist
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Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa, better known simply as Carlos Lessa was a Brazilian economist and professor.
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Nelson Prudêncio
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- triple jumperathletics competitor
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Nelson Prudêncio was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won silver medals at the 1967 and 1971 Pan American Games and 1968 Summer Olympics, and a bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Prudêncio was ranked world's #2 in 1968, #3 in 1972, #5 in 1975, and #8 in 1971.
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Hélio de Oliveira Santos
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- politicianphysician
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Hélio de Oliveira Santos is a physician, graduated in the Medical School of the State University of Campinas and specialized in pediatrics, federal representative, and was the mayor of the municipality of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, from January 2005 to September 2011, when he was impeached. He is affiliated with the Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT).
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Gustavo Canuto
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- civil servantengineer
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Gustavo Henrique Rigodanzo Canuto is a Brazilian engineer and politician, former Minister of Regional Development.
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Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
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- anthropologistuniversity teacher
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Manuela Carneiro da Cunha is a Portuguese-Brazilian anthropologist, who is known for her studies of indigenous people in Brazil.
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Tadao Takahashi
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- computer scientist
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Eduardo Tadao Takahashi was a Brazilian computer scientist and researcher who was credited with contributions toward planning, deployment, and adoption of the internet in Brazil and other Latin American countries. He was a founding director of Brazil's National Research Network (RNP), an academic network that coordinated actions toward setting up the country's national internet backbone. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017.
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Alysson Muotri
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- biologist
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Alysson Renato Muotri is a Brazilian researcher from the University of California, United States, where he has been working since 2008. He is also the director of the Stem-Cell Program of the UCSD. He's research is about the frontier themes on genetics and neuroscience, like the development of the human nervous system using brain organoids developed from stem cells. He is currently the Brazilian biologist with the largest number of high impact scientific publications.
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Ligia Amadio
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- conductor
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Ligia Amadio is a Brazilian conductor, and has been the chief conductor of the Minas Gerais Symphonic Orchestra since March 8, 2023.
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Celeste Sánchez-Romero
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- researcher
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Celeste Sánchez Romero was a Mexican dental researcher and federal deputy from the Labor Party (PT) in the first six months of the LXV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Prior to becoming a legislator, she was an academic researcher.
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Ivan Vilela
- Enrolled in the State University of Campinas
- 1989-1994 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1995-1999 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerguitaristlutenist
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Ivan Vilela is a Brazilian composer, arranger, researcher, teacher and viola caipira player. Ivan Vilela is currently a professor at the ECA - School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. He is the director of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Violas, a Brazilian orchestra composed by Brazilian violas. Ivan Vilela is one of the main ten-string guitarists (viola) nowadays. With a special style and very developed technique, he has more than 15 albums recorded, solo or with different groups, and was nominated for and awarded several prestigious prizes in Brazil.
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Walter Carnielli
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- philosopheruniversity teachermathematician
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Walter Alexandre Carnielli is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and philosopher, who works as a full professor of Logic at the State University of Campinas. After obtaining his Bachelor and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics at the State University of Campinas, he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 there under the supervision of Newton da Costa; subsequently, he worked as a post-doc at the University of California at Berkeley, following an invitation by Leon Henkin.
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Patricia Pranke
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- university teacherbiochemist
- Biography
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Patricia Helena Lucas Pranke is a Brazilian stem cell researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Between 2003 and 2005, Pranke was one of two scientists who helped the Federal Government of Brazil write the National Biosafety Law, regulating research on human embryonic stem cells in Brazil.
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Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano
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- mathematicianphilosopher
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Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano is a Brazilian mathematical logician who was president of the Brazilian Logic Society. Topics in her work have included non-classical logic, paraconsistent logic, many-valued logic, and the history of logic.
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Mauro Galetti
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- writerbiologistecologist
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Mauro Galetti. is a Brazilian ecologist and conservation biologist. He is a full professor in the Department of Biodiversity at the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo and has worked at Stanford University, Aarhus University (Denmark) and the University of Miami (USA). He also holds a position as a Courtesy Associated Professor at Florida International University, Miami, FL. Galetti's work has centered on analyzing the ecological and evolutionary consequences of defaunation. He was awarded by WWF in 1998 and was a Tinker Fellow at Stanford University and a visiting professor at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark in 2017.
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Adilson E. Motter
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- physicistbiologist
- Biography
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Adilson E. Motter is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics at Northwestern University, where he has helped develop the concept of synthetic rescue in network biology as well as methods to control the nonlinear dynamics of complex networks. In joint work with Takashi Nishikawa, he discovered the phenomenon of converse symmetry breaking (also referred to as asymmetry-induced symmetry). Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily involving complex networks, systems biology, chaos and statistical physics.
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Brito Cruz
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- physicistelectronic engineer
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Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, born in Rio de Janeiro on July 19, 1956, is one of Brazil's most noted physicists and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. The scientific director of the São Paulo Research Foundation and a full professor of quantum electronics at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brito Cruz is engaged in research in which he uses femtosecond lasers to study ultrafast phenomena.
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Juli Manzi
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- writer
- Biography
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Giuliano Tosin, better known by his stage name Juli Manzi, is a Brazilian musician and biographer.
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Nancy Garcia
- Enrolled in the State University of Campinas
- 1981-1985 graduated with bachelor's degree in statistics
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Nancy Lopes Garcia is Professor of Statistics at University of Campinas in Brazil. Her research interests include modeling of and inference for spatial point processes, chains of infinite or variable memory, and inference for functional data.
