Carlos F.O. Graeff

Carlos F.O. Graeff received his PhD in Physics from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1994. After a postdoc at TU München with an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, he joined the University of São Paulo (USP), Campus Ribeirão Preto, as Assistant (1996-1999) and Associate Professor (1999‐2006). In 2006 he joined the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) as Full Professor. He is the Executive Director of FAPESP; Research Fellow 1A from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq); fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; associate member of Sigma XI;  member of the advisory board of Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Materials Advances and RSC Applied Interfaces (Royal Society of Chemistry); and member of Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo (ACIESP). Professor Graeff was a visiting researcher at several universities around the world examples: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (2003-2004); Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China (2011-2015); Beijing Jiatong University (BJU), China (2015-2017) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Germany (2019-2022). Former: Coordinator of Strategic Programs and Research Infrastructure in FAPESP (2023-2025); Higher Education Coordinator of the State Government of São Paulo (2023); vice president for research of UNESP (2017-2021); member of FAPESP Engineering Panel (2016-2017); coordinator of the Materials Science Division in CAPES-Ministry of Education (2009-2014). His field of interest is Materials Science, more specifically electronic devices (solar cells, thin-film transistors, etc.), biomaterials/bioelectronics and electronic magnetic resonance.