CHIRSTIANO’S BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Christiano Brum started his science career as part of the Brazilian Antarctic Program. For 10 years he participated in several Antarctic expeditions collecting data on the upper atmosphere and thermosphere. His PhD thesis was focused on high-and-mid latitudes cosmic noise absorption by the ionospheric D-region. He was a National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Utah State University, and Cornell University postdoctoral fellow. Upon completing his last post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Brum assumed the Arecibo Observatory’s Space and Atmospheric Science department leadership (2011). Dr. Brum’s relationship with FSI-UCF started in 2018 when he was part of the FSI-UAGM-YEN team that won the NSF cooperative agreement to manage Arecibo Observatory, where he became the Deputy Director of Science Operations until the closeout of the site. Currently, Dr. Brum is based in Orlando and is part of the Florida Space Institute team as a research professor. Dr. Brum’s current work is on studies of the ionosphere, thermosphere, and magnetosphere (ITM) regions by combining information from different probing instruments (optical and radio) which allow unique insights into fundamental plasma processes and incredible diagnoses of the upper atmospheric conditions during different geophysical conditions and also for climate changes.