Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro

Antonio  Miguel  V.  Monteiro  is  a  senior  researcher  at  INPE  (Brazilian  National 
Institute  for  Space  Research)  where  he  leads  the  Urban  Systems,  Health  and 
Environment  Group  and  acts  as  the  Head  of  the  Space  and  Society  Institutional 
Program.  He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of 
Espirito  Santo  (UFES)  and  holds  a  DPhil  in  Electronic  Engineering  and 
Control/Computer Science (1993) from the University of Sussex at Brighton, UK. His 
research work involves the development       of geographically-aware methods oriented to 
bridging the gap between research and services in public health programs and urban 
planning. He has been acting as the coordinator of national-scale projects organised as 
multi-institutional networks of cooperation centred on the use of spatial information 
tools for shaping informed urban/health public policies. His recent work is focused on 
using  computer  models  and  simulation  as  mediator  objects  for  bringing  up  the 
discussion of the socio-territorial inequalities derived from the Brazilian urbanisation. 
He was head of the Image Processing Division (DPI, 1999-2006) and Chief Executive 
and Head of the Earth System Science Center (CCST, 2008-2010) at INPE.