Board of Directors
Suzana Kahn Ribeiro
Director
With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a master’s degree in Energy Planning (1988) at Coppe/UFRJ, and a doctoral degree in Production Engineering (1995) at Coppe/UFRJ, Suzana Kahn Ribeiro joined Coppe in 1998 as a professor in the Transport Engineering Program. During this period, she was the Vice President of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 2008 to 2015; the Secretary for Climate Change at the Ministry of the Environment from 2008 to 2010, and Undersecretary of State for the Environment in Rio de Janadução – eiro from 2010 to 2013. In 2019, she became the Vice Director of our institution (until July 2023) and the Director of the China-Brazil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation.
She is also the executive coordinator of the Green Fund at UFRJ and a board member at the Museum of Tomorrow, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS), and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).
In 2007, she joined the group of scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their dedication to studies on climate change and global warming and has since participated in preparing IPCC reports.
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Marcello Campos
Vice Director
With a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Coppe/UFRJ (1991) and a doctoral degree at the University of Victoria, Canada (1995), Marcello Campos is a full professor at UFRJ where he joined the Electrical Engineering Program at Coppe in 1998. In 2004 he became the vice coordinator of this program, and in 2005, its coordinator. He was also a member of the Graduate Education Council (CEPG), from 2016 to 2019, and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, from 2019 to 2023.
He is currently a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where he was the director of the Communications Society Latin America (2000-2001); a member of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM); and a senior member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT), as advisor (2014-2017), Vice President of Finance (2018-2019), and currently member of its Fiscal Council.
He was awarded in 2002 with the Nokia Visiting Fellowship in Finland, and in 2000 and 2002 with scholarships at the Young Scientist Program of the Rio de Janeiro State Research Foundation (Faperj).
From January 1997 to May 1998, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME). He was a visiting researcher at the Laboratory for Telecommunications Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, in Espoo, Finland (1998), and at the University Graduate Center (UNIK) at the University of Oslo, Norway (2008).
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Marysilvia Ferreira da Costa
Director for Technology and Innovation
Marysilvia da Costa has a master’s degree (1991) and a doctoral degree (1994) in Physical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo-São Carlos, having completed a sandwich doctorate (1992-1994) and Postdoctoral Research Internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States (1994-1996). Marysilvia is an Associate Professor at UFRJ and joined the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program (PEMM) at Coppe in 1998, where she was the academic coordinator from 2007 to 2009, and coordinator from 2014 to 2017, as well as head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Polytechnic School/UFRJ for this same period. From 2019-2023, she held the position of Deputy Director for Entrepreneurship at Coppe.
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Francisco Thiago Aragão
Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation
Francisco is currently an Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Program (PEC) at Coppe/UFRJ and the coordinator of the Geotechnical Laboratory – Pavement Sector. He was the academic coordinator of PEC and a member of strategic working groups such as the Commission for Maximum Grades. He is also an ad hoc consultant for Capes, CNPq, and Faperj, having been a consultant for Capes in the 2017 and 2022 quadrennial assessments in Engineering 1.
He is an affiliate member of the Brazilian Society of Sciences (ABC), with a research productivity fellowship from CNPq (level 1C) and a scholarship from the Young Scientist Program, Faperj. Francisco is the coordinator of outreach activities at the UFRJ Technology Center and a member of the UFRJ Outreach Council (CEU) and was a full member of the Coppe/UFRJ Deliberative Council from 2019 to 2022.
He holds a doctoral degree (2011) and a master’s degree (2007) in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, United States, and a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará (2004). He is a member of two science committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), a committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (EMI/ASCE) Engineering Mechanics Institute, an Executive Fellow at the International Road Federation, and a member of the Asphalt Commission at the Brazilian Petroleum and Gas Institute (IBP).
Francisco is an Associate Editor for the Revista Transportes journal, an editorial board member for the International Journal of Pavement Engineering, and a reviewer for important international journals. He is also a member of the ABNT/NBR standardization group for asphalt mixtures at the Brazilian Petroleum and Gas Institute (IBP), a deputy permanent secretary at the Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Congress (CILA), and coordinator for Transport Infrastructure at the annual congress of the Brazilian Association for Education and Research in Transportation (Anpet). He coordinates several research, development, and service provision projects with Cenpes/Petrobras, CNPq, the Brazilian Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT), Faperj, and the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Court of Auditors (TCM-RJ), among other institutions.
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Jean-David Caprace
Director for Academic Affairs
With a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles, Belgium (2000), and a doctoral degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Liège, Belgium (2010), Jean-David is a professor and the coordinator of the Marine Engineering Program (PEnO) at Coppe/UFRJ since 2013. He completed his post-doctoral degree at PEnO in 2011.
He is also editor-in-chief of the Marine Systems & Ocean Technology (MSOT-SPRINGER) journal. He was a technical director at the Brazilian Society of Marine Engineering (Sobena), from 2017 to 2020, and chairman of the Specialist Committee V.3 (Material and Fabrication Technology) of the International Ship & Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2015), from 2012 to 2015. He works in shipbuilding, offshore operations, and maritime transport with a focus on productivity and decarbonization.
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Thiago Ritto
Deputy Director for Academic Affairs
Thiago Ritto has a degree in Engineering (2003), a master’s degree (2005) in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and a double doctorate (2010) in the same area from Université Paris-Est and PUC-Rio. He has been a professor, since 2011, of the Mechanical Engineering Program (PEM) at Coppe/UFRJ and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Poli/UFRJ, as well as a Research Fellow at the University of Bristol since 2021. He is part of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (ABCM) and the Brazilian Society for Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC).
He is currently a researcher under the CNPQ and Rio de Janeiro State Scientist program at Faperj, with research projects in computational modeling and propagation of uncertainty applied in rotating machine dynamics and oil drill strings.
At UFRJ, he was a member of the Permanent Faculty Commission (CPPD) at the Rector’s Office (2022-2023), and a member of the Council of International Affairs (2019-2020). He was also the coordinator of the Mechanical Engineering course (2014-2015) and Deputy Director of Education (2016-2017) at the Polytechnic School.
At Coppe, he was an active member of the Faculty Evaluation Commission (CAD) (2021-2023), the coordinator of the Office of International Affairs (2019-2020), and a substitute member of the Graduate Studies and Research Commission (CPGP) (2017-2021).
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Amanda Xavier
Director for Planning and Institutional Development
With a master’s degree from the Federal University of Itajubá (2011), a doctoral degree (2017) and a postdoctoral degree (2020) in Production Engineering from Coppe/UFRJ, Amanda Xavier is an Assistant Professor in Management and Innovation of the Production Engineering Program (PEP) and the coordinator of the Technology Business Incubator for Community Cooperatives (ITCP) at Coppe.
Since 2004, she has supported micro- and small businesses and territorial initiatives through intermediary organizations, such as business incubators, university research centers, and institutional research, development, and innovation projects.
She coordinates many multidisciplinary teams for institutional projects, as the general coordinator of the Capes Brafitec project for French-Brazilian scientific cooperation and the coordinator of the CONFAP-WBI project for Brazilian-Belgian research and innovation, the team composition for the Oil Platform Decommissioning project (Cenpes), and the Forum of Cooperation and Functionality Economics (Rio de Janeiro and Maricá/RJ).
In regards to the PEP, she has been a member of the Sucupira Commission and the Strategic Planning Commission since 2019, the Selection Commission since 2020, and the Internationalization Commission since 2021. She is a researcher under the Rio de Janeiro State Program for Young Scientists – Faperj (2023) and a researcher of the Product Design and Innovation Laboratory (LCPI) at Arts et Métiers – ENSAM (Paris/France), and the Ecodesign Laboratory at the University of Technology of Troyes – UTT (Troyes/France).
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Tharcisio Fontainha
Deputy Director for Planning and Institutional Development
With a doctoral degree (2018) and a postdoctoral degree (2019) in Production Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Tharcisio is an assistant professor in Management and Innovation of the Production Engineering Program at Coppe/UFRJ. He completed his master’s degree in 2015 and joined our institution as a professor in 2019. He is a researcher under the Rio de Janeiro State Young Scientist program of Faperj and under the Productivity in Technological Development and Innovative Outreach program of CNPq.
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Vanda Borges
Director for Personnel Management
Vanda Borges has a master’s degree in Social Work from the School of Social Work of UFRJ (2014) and a degree in Social Work from Gama Filho University (1986). She joined UFRJ in 1989 as an administrative assistant at the Faculty of Dentistry. In 2001, she joined Coppe/UFRJ as a social worker, from 2001 to 2002, for the Business Incubator and the Technology Business Incubator of Community Cooperatives (ITCP) and, in 2003, for the Human Resource Management.
From 2019 onwards, she joined the board of directors at Coppe as the Director for Personnel Management, having implemented the Acolhe Coppe Center for Psychosocial Care, which provides individual and collective psychosocial care, as well as other types of integrative therapy and the art therapy course, focusing on the many emotions that affect everyday academic and work life.
Vanda also has graduate degrees in Higher Education Teaching from Candido Mendes University (2015-2017); in Neuroscience of Learning from UFRJ (2010-2011); in Public Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2001-2002); and in Integrated Human Resource Development from UFRJ (1998-1999).
In 2022, she created the Acolhe Coppe Instagram page and, in 2023, the Acolhe Cast podcast on the day-to-day relations of our academic community and workforce.
From 2020 to 2022, she was a commission member of the Center for Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies (NEABI), specifically in the working group in charge of its charter, and for this same period, she was part of the working group on the policies against violence at UFRJ. She is currently part of the working group at the Communications Commission for inclusion and accessibility.
Vanda has also worked since 2002 as a field supervisor for students of the Social Work course at the School of Social Work/UFRJ.
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Cleide Lima
Director for Science Outreach
Cleide Lima has a degree in Social Sciences from UFRJ (1990), a specialization in Planning, Implementation, and Management in Distance Learning from Universidade Federal Fluminense (2013), and an ongoing master’s degree in Education, Management, and Diffusion in Bioscience at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry of UFRJ.
She joined UFRJ in 1987 as an administrative assistant and, in 1991, started working with science outreach. From 1992 to 1996, she worked as an advisor in the Assistant Rector’s Office for Science Outreach (PR-5). In 1996, she became an executive coordinator of the Commission on Undergraduate Admission.
From 2006 to 2016, Cleide also worked as the director of the PR-5 Division of Education. She was also a member of the Institutional Management Committee for the Initial and Continuing Education of Basic Education Teachers (Comfor), from 2013 to 2016. She joined Coppe/UFRJ in 2016, working alongside the Director for Academic Affairs as the deputy coordinator for Science Outreach, as well as Head Representative of the Technical and Administrative Staff for Education (TAE) at the UFRJ Council for Science Outreach (CEU).
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Antonio MacDowell de Figueiredo
Managing Director of the Coppetec Foundation
Antonio MacDowell de Figueiredo has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Coppe/UFRJ (1974) and a doctoral degree in thermal process engineering from the University of Stuttgart (1980), having completed postdoctoral research internships at the University of Stuttgart (1986) and the University of Budapest (1988). He has been a professor of the Mechanical Engineering Program (PEM) at Coppe/UFRJ since 1980; and at the Polytechnic School, since 1981. MacDowell also worked as a PEM coordinator from 1985 to 1991 and from 2014 to 2017.
He was a representative of the UFRJ Technology Center, the Council for Undergraduate Education (CEG), and the Council on Education for Graduates (CEPG). In 1991, he created the Coppetec Foundation. From 1992 to 1999, he coordinated the Capes Informatization Project. Antonio was also the Assistant Rector for Graduate Studies and Research (PR2) and then the Assistant Rector for Undergraduate Studies (PR1) at UFRJ, between 1998 and 2000, as well as the Secretary of Higher Education at Sesu/MEC between 2000 and 2001.
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Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro
Executive Director of the Coppetec Foundation
Glaydston Ribeiro has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (1999), a master’s degree in Transport Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (2002), a doctoral degree in Applied Computing from the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (2007), and a postdoctoral degree from HEC-Montréal/University of Montréal (2011). He is currently a professor in the Graduate Transport Engineering Program at COPPE/UFRJ, with knowledge in Transport, Logistics, and Operational Research (focusing on Combinatorial Optimization). He is also part of the board of directors of ANPET (Brazilian Association for Education and Research in Transportation).