Paulo Artaxo is a professor at the Institute of Physics at USP, a member of the IPCC – UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has developed his career working with the Amazon environment and global climate change. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP). He is also vice president of SBPC. He received several awards, such as the Almirante Álvaro Alberto award in 2016, and in 2021 he received the CONFAP award for Science and Technology. It was included in the Clarivate Analytics list as belonging to the top 1% of the most cited researchers worldwide in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020.