Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, DSc, OBE

Prof Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz is Senior VP of Research Networks at Elsevier, based in Oxford. He has a highly distinguished career in research as a scientist, a university leader, and a research funding agency leader. As a researcher he has degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics and worked at the University of Campinas, University of Rome, University Pierre et Marie Curie and AT&T Bell Laboratories. As a university leader, was Rector of the University of Campinas, which is consistently ranked among the top universities of Latin America. As a funder, Brito was, for 15 years, the Scientific Director at the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), where he worked to develop a broad network for international research collaboration with entities around the world. He also chaired the Governing Board of the Global Research Council, which comprises the heads of science and engineering funding agencies worldwide, promoting the sharing of data and best practices for high-quality collaboration among funding agencies.

A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the American Physical Society (APS), Brito is a member of the Shell Science Council, the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Panel of Judges for the Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize. He received the Ordre des Palmes Academiques de France, the Order of the Scientific Merit from the Federative Republic of Brazil, and the Order of the British Empire (OBE).