Gil Martins Felippe

Biography

Gil Felippe received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he did post-doctoral work in plant physiology. His PhD thesis was done under the supervision of Professor John E. Dale. He was a bachelor of Natural History from the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo. His primary and secondary studies were done at the Instituto de Educação Dr. Alvaro Guião, in São Carlos. He also became a teacher of children from the same institute.

He started his academic career as a biologist at the Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo. Later he was an invited lecturer at the Department of Botany of the University of São Paulo (USP), a post-doctoral research fellow at the Botany Department of the University of Edinburgh and Full Professor at the Department of Plant Physiology of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His last academic position was as a Guest Professor at the Instituto de Botânica de São Paulo.

He was a Retired Professor of UNICAMP. At the Department of Plant Physiology of UNICAMP he was one of the lecturers in the Discipline of Plant Development of the Graduation Course. He supervised students starting research, as well as students on masters or doctoral work. He was always very active doing his own research work, in the lab and in the field, mainly in cerrado regions. He was also very active in participating of International and Brazilian Botanical Meetings. He retired from the University of Campinas in 1991. He published 168 scientific papers and was the supervisor of 17 MSc theses and of 12 PhD theses. After retiring he became a writer.

Scientific community

He was a founding member of the Association of São Paulo Biologists and then President of the ethical council of the Association (1975–1977). He was also a founder member of the Botanical Society of São Paulo and its first President (1981–1982) and President for a second time (1989–1993). He was the Chairman of the São Paulo Section of the Brazilian Botanical Society (1980–1981). He was a Meritorius Member of the Brazilian Botanical Society. He was a founder of the Brazilian Journal of Botany and its main editor for several years (1980–1982; 1989–1993). He was a member of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science - SBPC, the UK Society for Experimental Biology and the Federation of European Societies of Plant Physiology. He was a Research-Fellow of the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development, CNPq (1977–1999). He was a Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo, since 1977. He was a coordinator of the Biology area of the Foundation for Implementation of Research of the State of São Paulo - FAPESP (1982) and coordinator of the Group of Research in Zoology and Botany of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (1982–1985).

Scientific Information Books (in Portuguese)

Prizes

PhD Thesis

Technical books