Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho

Address:

OFFICE:
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE ) 
Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory (LAC )
Scientific Computing Group 

Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
Caixa Postal 515
12245-970 São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil 
Phone: 55 (0)12 3945-6547
Fax: 55 (0)12 3945-6375
e-mail: haroldo(at)lac.inpe.br



Research Interests:
 
 Numerical methods, atmospheric turbulence, atmospheric data 
 analysis (initialization/assimilation), inverse and ill-posed problems.

List of publications in these areas


Short Curriculum Vitae: (see also CNCT)

Born on August 27, 1959, in Alegrete (RS), Brasil 
married.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering: Jan/1983 
 Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do SUL (PUCRS)
 Porto Algre (RS) Brasil.

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering: Jan/1988
 Programa de Pos-graduacao em Engenharia Mecanica (PROMEC) 
 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)  
 Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil.

Doctor in Mechanical Engineering: Oct/1992 
 Programa de Pos-graduacao em Engenharia Mecacnica (PROMEC)
 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) 
 Porto Alegre (RS) Brasil.

Pos-doctorate in Atmospheric Science: from Jan/1998 up to Set/1998 
 Department of Atmospheric Science
 Colorado State University (CSU)  
 Fort Collins (CO), USA.

 
Working Experience:
From Mar/87 up to Jan/88: Assistant Professor, 
Chemical Engineering Department, University of Caxias (UCS)
Caxias do Sul (RS), BRASIL

Since May/95: Senior Researcher, 
Scientific Computing Group, LAC/INPE

 From Oct/97 up to Nov/97: Visiting scientist, Istituto di
 Cosmo-geofisica (CNR), Turin - Italy.

 From Jan/98 up to Set/98: Visiting scientist, Department of Atmospheric Science
 Colorado State University (CSU)  
 Fort Collins (CO), USA.

 Editor of the Bulletim of the Brazilian Society for Computing and
 Applied Mathematics (SBMAC)


Postgraduate Teaching Activities:
 From Mar/91 up to Jul/91 : Invited Professor (Numerical Analysis), 
Informatic Department, ITA-CTA, São José dos Campos - SP, Brazil.

Since Feb/95: Full Professor,
Since Set/98: Academic Coordinator 
Postgraduate Programm in Applied Computing (CAP), INPE.

Membership:
 Brazilian Society for Computing and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC)
 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
 Brazilian Association on Computer Methods in Engineering (ABMEC). 

Research interests: 
  Numerical methods, atmospheric turbulence, atmospheric data 
analysis (initialization), inverse and ill-posed problems.

Hobbies: 
Tae-Kwon Do (black belt, second Dan), trekking.

List of selected papers