Professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, UFV) since 1982. Dr. Melo is a Full Professor. * Dr. Melo has taught 7 disciplines for the graduation course in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at UFV in the areas: Electrotechnics and Rural Electrification; Grain Drying and Storage and Programming for Engineers ( Dr. Melo worked with Free Pascal Lazarus, Matlab, Scilab and actually with Python). * In 1992, Dr. Melo developed the software GRAPSI (Digital Psychometric Graphic) which can be downloaded for free from http://evandro.eng.br/grapsi. This software is used in several universities in Brazil and Latin America. * In 1996 Dr. Melo joined the Post-Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering at UFV, where Dr. Melo has already supervised 13 master’s thesis and 11 doctoral theses. In this program, Dr. Melo teaches disciplines in the areas of Scientific Computing applied to Agriculture; Grain Drying and Storage (emphasis on coffee). In this year, started a new line of research: Post Harvest of Medicinal Plants, as well as created a discipline in this theme. * That year Dr. Melo participated in the foundation of the Brazilian Association of Agroinformatics (SBIAgro) and in its General Assembly of the Constitution. Dr. Melo was elected secretary-treasurer for the biennium 1996-1998. * In the years 1998-2008 Dr. Melo was coordinator of a cooperation agreement between UFV and Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain. From 1998 to 2000 was coordinator of agreement between UFV and Institut Für Agrartechnik in Den Tropen Und Subtropen of universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany in the area of automation of solar coffee dryer. In 2004, it laid the foundations for a cooperation agreement and the UFV and the Universidad de Valladolid, Campus Palencia, Spain. * From 2006-2009 Dr. Melo was the representative of Brazil in the RISSPA (Ibero-American Network for Solar Drying of Agro-Food Products) network integrated with CYTED (Ibero-American Programme on Science and Technology for Development). The RISSPA network had the participation of 10 countries, 16 institutions and 94 researchers. The network has published 8 CD's and one book in which Melo is co-author in three chapters. It has organized four annual events in different countries; the last one was in Brazil, at the UFV, under the coordination of Melo, whose title was Meeting on Solar Energy Applied to Agriculture. * Dr. Melo was invited by SBIAgro to organize and coordinate the VII Brazilian Congress of Agroinformatics (2009)at the UFV campus. * In 2000, Dr. Melo founded the Research Group on Pre-processing of Medicinal Plants (http://secagemplanta.ufv.br) and Dr. Melo is currently coordinator. This group has the collaboration of researchers from a government research institution (EPAMIG), four Brazilian universities and two Spanish universities. * Expertise area: coffee drying and storage; post-harvest of medicinal plants; agroinformatics