Paulo César De Faccio Carvalho

Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho completed his doctorate in Animal Science at UNESP in 1997. He carried out his thesis at INRA, France, on the relationship between sward structure and the grazing process. He was Visiting Researcher at Crop and Grassland Service FAO, Rome, in 2001, and in 2005-2006. Postdoc at the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis (2013-2014), and Visiting Professor - Precision livestock and Nutrition Laboratory of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech at the University of Liège (2022). He is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, working in the Department of Forage Plants and Agrometeorology since 1997. He was Coordinator of the Animal Science Advisory Committee of CNPq, President of the Brazilian Society of Animal Science, member of the Advisory Board of Alianza del Pastizal/BirdLife International. He was also Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Animal Science and member of the UFRGS Graduate Chamber. He is a member of Low Carbon Agriculture Program Committee and the current President of the Brazilian Society of Integrated-Crop Livestock Systems, as well as Director of the SIPA Alliance (Integrated-Crop Livestock Systems). He is a member of the International Advisory Committee on the Nutrition of Herbivores, and Vice President of the Asociación Latino-americana de Producción Animal (ALPA). He was Director of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Society of Animal Science. His bibliographic production is available in 762 different types of manuscripts. Score: h-index 36 (Web of Science), 38 (Scopus), 50 (Research Gate) and 57 (Google Scholar - 11,982 citations). Featured in a Stanford University study on the list of the 2% most influential researchers in the world, among the Top Plant Science and Agronomy Scientists in Brazil, by Research.com, and among the 10 Best Mind Pastagens in Brazil by DBO - Especial Pastagens . He served as Guest Editor for 4 international journals. He is an Editor (recommender) of the Peer Community in Animal Science. He completed the supervision of 103 MSc and PhD students, and 22 post-docs. He is a 1A productivity researcher by CNPq and leader of the Research Group on Grazing Ecology. He works in Research and Extension on the theme of Soil-Plant-Animal Relationship. His works study the grazing process in natural pastoral environments, cultivated or integrated with agriculture. He was four times awarded with the Prêmio Futuro da Terra by FAPERGS / Jornal do Comércio, and three times with the "Prof. Otávio Domingues" Award by the Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia. "Prof. Geraldo Gonçalves Carneiro" award among the authors of the best scientific article of 2021, by the same society. He has been recognized by the Australian Society of Animal Production and the Harry Stobbs Memorial Fund with the Harry Stobbs Memorial Lecture in Sydney, Australia. He received the Outstanding Researcher in Agricultural Sciences Award (Gaúcho Researcher Award) by FAPERGS in 2020. He has already been invited to conferences at the main national and international scientific forums in his area, having shared co-authorship in manuscripts with two Nobel Prizes. He is the Technical Coordinator of the PISA Program which, together with MAPA/UFPR and SEBRAE/SENAR/FARSUL (Together to Compete Program), and other partners, serves 127 municipalities in southern Brazil, reaching 1940 families of small farmers. He coordinates sustainability assessments on rural properties using the SAFA-FAO tool, which has already assessed 1107 rural properties in 83 municipalities with the "Sustainable Alliance SIPA" seal. He has worked in technical training programs in crop-livestock integration and sustainable pasture management. He is responsible for the innovations that generated the trademarks "Pastoreio Rotatínuo - Aliança SIPA" and "PISA" registered with the INPI-National.