DrAlexandre Strapasson

Alexandre Strapasson is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College's Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP). His primary interests include climate change, energy transition, land use change, bioenergy, negative emissions technologies, system dynamics models, planetary boundaries, and international comparative assessments. He is a permanent faculty member (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Brasilia (UnB), where he leads the Earth Futures Lab at the Centre for Sustainable Development. He is also an IPCC Coordinating Lead Author (AR7/WGIII/Ch14) and a CNPq Fellow (Bolsista PQ). Among his experiences at Imperial, Alexandre collaborated on several research projects and contributed to different postgraduate programmes, such as the MRes in Green Chemistry, MSc in Environmental Technology, and MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures. He was one of the lead modellers of the Global Calculator and participated in the EU Calculator, among other integrated systems models. In addition, he was the founder and first chairman of the Imperial College Brazil Forum. Before these academic experiences, Alexandre served as Director and Head of the Department of Bioenergy at Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) and a UNDP Consultant for Energy, Ozone, and Climate Change at Brazil's Ministry of the Environment (MMA), participating in UNFCCC negotiations. He holds a PhD from Imperial, with a Postdoc in Sustainability Science from Harvard University, where he also worked as a Belfer Center Research Fellow. Alexandre lives in Brasília, Brazil.

TIMELINE AT IMPERIAL:
2022 to present: Honorary Lecturer.
2018 to 2020: College Consultant.
2016 to 2021: Honorary Research Fellow.
2015 to 2015: Honorary Research Associate.
2013 to 2014: EU Climate-KIC Research Associate.
2011 to 2013: Brazil Forum Founder and Chairman.
2010 to 2014: CAPES Foundation Doctoral Researcher.