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Professor Paulo de Souza

Executive Dean, School of Engineering

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Email: p.desouza@ecu.edu.au

Professor Paulo de Souza is the Executive Dean of the School of Engineering.

A disrupter and transformational advocate for impactful research outcomes and real-world educational delivery, Paulo has spent the last two decades bridging science, industry and society, with the application of engineering to solve unique problems: spanning the critical struggle of our fragile ecosystems, improving industrial processes to the discovery of habitable environments on the surface of Mars. Paulo transformed industrial, research and academic portfolios under his leadership while accelerating performance across all aspects of the business. Prior to joining ECU, Paulo was Dean (Research) at Griffith University, Science Director and Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, Collaborating Scientist with NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover program and worked in consultancy, mining and steelmaking industry in South America and Europe. He co-authored the series of papers identified at the 2004 Breakthrough of the Year by Science Magazine. Paulo is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a Professional Fellow of Engineers Australia and a member of the ARC College of Experts. Paulo is a Physicist with a master’s in mechanical engineering from UFES (Brazil) and has a Doctoral degree (Dr rer. nat.) from Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Space Payload Development
  • Micro-sensing
  • Mossbauer Spectroscopy

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

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