CAPES - Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education

A cooperation agreement with the largest Brazilian funding agency CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) has been in place since 2010. This was negotiated by the Brazil Centre in order to link the University of Münster (UM) institutionally not only with universities but also with funding agencies in Brazil.

Within the framework of this cooperation, the so-called Brazil Chair ("Cátedra Brasil") was established at UM. This guest chair for Brazilian academics is financed by CAPES and covers a period of six to 24 months. There are more than ten such guest chairs worldwide, including at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Sorbonne, Bologna, Coimbra as well as Bonn and Tübingen. This guest professorship is linked to the Brazil Centre and is open to all disciplines. Interested faculties can apply in an internal UM call for applications organized by the Brazil Centre.

The overall goal of the Brazil Chair is to intensify cooperation between researchers from the University of Münster and Brazilian universities, as well as to build and expand scientific Networks. In addition, the Brazil Chair is intended to create greater visibility for the achievements of outstanding Brazilian academics at the UM and in Germany as a whole.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Villela

Daniel Villela has been a researcher at the Scientific Computing Programme (PROCC/Fiocruz) since 2012, as well as a professor on the postgraduate programmes in Public Health Epidemiology, Computational and Systems Biology, and Parasitic Biology at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).

Prof. Villela completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 and also obtained his Master’s degree in 1998. He completed his PhD at Columbia University between 1998 and 2005, followed by a postdoctoral research stay in the field of health sciences at Princeton University (2023/24).

He was the coordinator of PROCC from 2017 to 2023 and deputy coordinator of the Programme in Epidemiology in Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz), as well as a visiting professor at Princeton University. He was also a visiting professor at Princeton University. He was also involved in the CAPES PrInt – Fiocruz internationalisation programme. He has consolidated experience in mathematical modelling, performance analysis, and quantitative methods, which he applies to the fields of epidemiology and vector ecology.

Prof. Dr. Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Faculty of Humanities, Belo Horizonze/Minas Gerais

Research topic:
The New Limits of the Sayable in Political Discourse: The Language of Conflict as a Challenge to Pluralistic Societies

Hosting institute:
UM Institute of Communication Studies, Prof. Dr Julia Metag

Duration:
18 months, 2025-2026

Press:
January 2025 
March 2025 
August 2025 
November 2025 
Dezember 2025

Prof. Dr. José Carlos Vaz
University of São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, São Paulo/São Paulo 

Research topic:
Smart cities and online participation

Hosting institute:
UM Institute for Political Science, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting

Duration:
12 months, 2024-2025

Press:
8 Mai 2024  
September 2024
November 2024 
Dezember 2025

Prof. Dr. Elaine Maria de Souza Fagundes
Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais

Research topic:
Studying host and immune responses to breast cancer or to highly virulent viral and bacterial pathogens

Hosting institute:
Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren

Duration:
12 months, 2023-2024

Press:

8. Mai 2024

Prof. Dr. Marcos Wachowicz
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Faculty of Law, Curitiba/Paraná

Research topic:
Blockchain and intelectual property right: legitimacy of smart contracts for personalized management of copyright in the information Society

Hosting institute:
UM Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht (ITM), Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren

Duration:
12 months, 2018-2019

Homeapge M. Wachowicz

Guest Lectures at the University of Münster:
June 4, 2018
July 12, 2018

Dr. Gilberto Câmara
National Institute for Space Research. (bras. Akronym: INPE), São José dos Campos/São Paulo

Research topic:
Data‐intensive Geoinformatics: using big geospatial data to address global change questions

Hosting institute:
Institute for Geoinformatics,  Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma

Duration:
 2 years, 2013-2015

Homepage G. Câmara

Press:
July 2013
December 2013

Prof. Dr. Fernando Batista da Costa
University of São Paulo, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto

Research Topic:
In silico‐tools to assess the bio‐and chemodiversity of Natural Products with respect to their potential as new lead compounds against Neglected Diseases

Hosting institute:
Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt

Duration:
 8 months, 2012-2013

Homepage F. da Costa

Press:
September 2012
March 2013