A young powerhouse founded in 1962 in Campinas, Sao Paulo, consistently ranked among Latin America's best research universities.
10 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Reitor da Unicamp (2025-)
Reitoria
Thank you for taking up the leadership of Unicamp with a listener's style, and for keeping a great public research university focused on its students, its science and its region.
Professor Titular, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin; Reitor da Unicamp (2017-2021)
Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin
Thank you for pioneering work in nanomagnetism and magnetoimpedance, for leading Unicamp with imagination, and for championing science communication and inclusion in Brazilian higher education.
Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Forensics; Director of the Instituto de Computacao (2019-2023)
Instituto de Computacao
Thank you for building AI that can tell the real from the fake when it matters most, and for making the Instituto de Computacao a world reference in digital forensics.
Professor Titular, Departamento de Clinica Medica
Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas
Thank you for showing how a high-fat diet inflames the hypothalamus and helps drive obesity and diabetes, and for building metabolic science in Campinas that the world cites every day.
Professor Titular (semantica argumentativa); Reitor da Unicamp (1990-1994)
Linguistics / Laboratorio de Estudos Avancados em Jornalismo (Labjor)
Thank you for teaching argumentative semantics for four decades, for leading Unicamp as rector, and for making science communication a serious Brazilian discipline through Labjor and ComCiencia.
Professor Titular (theoretical physics)
Physics
Thank you for the Caldeira-Leggett model, which taught physics how quantum systems lose their coherence to the world around them, and for doing that foundational work from Campinas for the whole field.
Professora Titular of Political Science
Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas (IFCH)
Thank you for taking Brazilian parties and voters seriously as objects of science, and for stewarding CESOP's public opinion archive so that democracy can study itself.
Professor, Instituto de Economia
Instituto de Economia
Thank you for helping build the Campinas School of economics and for decades of teaching Brazilians to think about money, inflation and development on their own terms.
Titular Professor of Logic (1998); Provost of Graduate Studies (2013-2014)
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE)
Thank you for carrying Brazilian logic to the world, from many-valued and paraconsistent systems to the history of logic itself, and for decades of building the CLE community.
Professora Emerita (2022), Departamento de Antropologia
Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas (IFCH)
Thank you for founding the anthropology of aging in Brazil and for insisting that old age be studied as life, not as decline.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Campinas, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.