Luís Gustavo Prates Cattelan

I am an undergraduate student in Meteorology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where I also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics. Between 2018 and 2020, I studied Physics with an emphasis on Astrophysics at UFRGS. I participated as a scholarship holder in the Itinerant Educational Observatory project from June 2018 to June 2019, and in the Sci-Five project from July 2019 to January 2020, focusing on science outreach. Since January 2021, I have been studying the resilience of tropical ecosystems using concepts from Complex Dynamic Systems. In the second semester of 2021, I had the opportunity to study at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” with an Erasmus+ ICM scholarship. Additionally, I was a research intern at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research from February to April 2022. I am currently involved in two research projects. The first, started in 2024, is the “Land Use Change Precipitation Reduction Emulator”, which investigates land use changes and precipitation reduction. The second, ongoing since 2022, aims to mechanistically and multiscale understand the resilience of the Amazon to droughts.