CINE’s new scientific team includes more than 200 researchers
CINE began its second phase with a team of over 200 researchers from various fields of knowledge, linked to 11 Brazilian universities and research institutes.
In addition to a hundred scientists with doctoral degrees, the center currently has 108 students who are conducting their undergraduate, master’s and doctoral research in the context of CINE, which offers a privileged environment for professional development in technologies for energy transition and decarbonization. In the future, these young people will be able to work in both academia and industry.
“We hope that CINE will continue to evolve in its leading and pioneering role of training and specializing professionals and researchers who are so necessary for the energy transition,” says Camila Brandão (Shell), Deputy Director of CINE. “Generating knowledge through the publication of papers in high-impact journals continues to be a great indicator of success and is always desired, but now we encourage our associated scholarship holders to go a step further, to envision the technology that will embody the science they are currently developing, so that they can develop more assertive research, more targeted to the needs of the energy transition,” she adds.
The new CINE team is already working on the 15 research and development projects included in the agreement signed in November of last year by the sponsors FAPESP and Shell Brasil, and the leading institutions Unicamp, USP and UFSCar. The main objective of these projects is to optimize a series of energy generation and storage technologies to make them more efficient, sustainable and economical. To this end, CINE members rely on advanced experimental and computational techniques, collaborations with some of the world’s most prominent research groups in their fields, and partnerships with companies.
“It would be a great achievement as a sponsoring company of a center the size of CINE to witness the emergence of spin-offs, or even to see the knowledge generated being transferred to major industry players who can make appropriate and beneficial use of this knowledge in order to generate value for society as a whole,” concludes Camila, who manages the renewable power technologies area at Shell Brasil.
