Biography

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1956), is a Full Professor at the Physics Institute, at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Graduated in Electrical Engineering (Inst. Tecn. de Aeronáutica, ITA, 1978), he has a MSc in Physics and a DSc in Physics (1980 and 1983, Physics Inst., Univ. of Campinas, Unicamp). He was a researcher at the Quantum Optics Laboratory, at the University of Rome (1981). In 1982 he became a professor at the Physics Institute at Unicamp. He worked as a resident visitor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ (1986-7) and was a visitor at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ (1990).
Brito Cruz has been the Director of the Physics Institute at Unicamp for two terms. He has been the Dean of Research at Unicamp and the President of the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP (1996-2002). He has been the President of Unicamp (2002-05).
From 2005 to 2020 he has been the Science Director at the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP.
Since September 2020 Brito Cruz has been the Senior Vice-President, Research networks, at Elsevier (Oxford, UK).
Brito Cruz is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the AAAS, a Fellow of the RSC, and 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, Honorary (OBE).