Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Director of the Latin American Center for Physics (CLAF–UNESCO). His vision is to place CLAF at the center of the challenges for the development of Latin American physics in the twenty-first century. He holds a BSc in Physics from the Universidade de São Paulo and a PhD from the University of Durham (United Kingdom), and served as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. He is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF) and has played a pioneering role in developing gamma-ray astronomy in Brazil. As the South American spokesperson for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), he is helping build a major gamma-ray observatory in the Andes. He also advanced Brazil’s participation in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), serving as Brazil’s delegate to the CTAO ERIC Council. He is committed to repositioning CLAF as a leading platform for regional cooperation in physics through integration, cooperation and science diplomacy with governments and institutional stakeholders.