Alvaro Penteado Crósta is a Brazilian

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

, with international expertise in remote sensing, mineral exploration and planetary geology. He is an authority on the

impact structure An impact structure is a generally circular or craterlike geologic structure of deformed bedrock or sediment produced by impact on a planetary surface, whatever the stage of erosion of the structure. In contrast, an impact crater is the surface e ...

s of Brazil and South America in general, and also known for the ''Crosta Technique,'' used in mineral exploration for detecting evidence of base and precious metals mineralization through multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing images .http://portal.ige.unicamp.br/en State University of Campinas: Geosciences Institute (Accessed January 2021) Crósta got a

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in geology from the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

in 1977, a

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from Brazil's

National Institute for Space Research The National Institute for Space Research (, INPE) is a research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Brazil), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations, the main goals of which are fostering scientific r ...

(INPE) in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree from the

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in 1990. In 1995—1996 he was a visiting scholar at the

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of the

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. In 2010 he acted as a visiting scientist at th
Natural History Museum
Berlin, Germany, and at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, Austria. In 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and in 2018/2019 a visiting scientist at the

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, Pasadena, CA, USA. From 2005 to 2023 he was a

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at th
Geosciences Institute
of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He was the Institute's Director from 2005 to 2010 an
UNICAMP´s Vice-Rector
from 2013 to 2017. He retired in 2023 and remain attached to Unicamp in an honorary position. He is
full Member of
th
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
and
full Member ofthe Academy of Sciences of São Paulo State

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* http://www.cgu.unicamp.br/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosta, Alvaro Penteado Alumni of Imperial College London Brazilian geologists Living people University of São Paulo alumni Year of birth missing (living people)