Team

João Andrade de Carvalho Jr.

Full Professor, UNESP Guaratinguetá

• Combustion
• Emissions
• Pulsating combustion
• Incineration

Aeronautical Infrastructure Engineer from ITA (1976), with a master’s degree and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1980 and 1983). Researcher at the INPE Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory from 1983 to 1998 and Full Professor in the UNESP-FEG Department of Energy since 1999. Included in the Stanford/Elsevier list of the most influential scientists in his field since 2020.

Daniel Solferini

Mechanical Engineer

• Steel industry
• Waste gasification
• Domestic and industrial burners

Holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Guaratinguetá School of Engineering (UNESP). He worked as a development engineer at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), gaining experience across a wide range of processes and specialist teams. He developed training, projects, studies and technical combustion support for different areas of the steelworks.

He currently participates in the development of a municipal solid-waste gasifier for power generation and leads the development of high-performance burners for domestic and industrial stoves.

Felipe Solferini de Carvalho

PhD in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

• Combustion
• Gasification
• Biofuels
• Pollutant mitigation

Mechanical Engineer from UNIFEI (2018) and PhD in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from ITA (2023). He spent 16 months at Queen’s University, Canada, through the Science without Borders programme, and completed technical internships at the INPE Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory and the Queen’s University Combustion Laboratory. His work focuses on modelling, testing and optimization of industrial thermal processes.

Daniel Ignacio Travieso Fernández

Mechanical Engineer · PhD candidate in Engineering, UNESP

• Combustion
• CFD
• Cutting nozzles and burners
• Calculation tools

Mechanical Engineer from Universidad de Camagüey, Cuba (2023), recognized as the top graduate of his programme, and Master of Engineering from UNESP Guaratinguetá (2026), in partnership with UNIFEI. He is pursuing a PhD in Engineering at UNESP and a specialization in Computational Fluid Dynamics at UFRGS. At SOLFERINI, he works on cutting-nozzle and burner design, CFD modelling and combustion calculation tools.

Fábio Jairo Dias

Fire investigator · PhD in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (ITA)

• Fire investigation
• Diesel engines
• Combustion and emissions

Master and PhD in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (ITA), Mechanical Engineer from the Piracicaba School of Engineering (EEP). He is currently a researcher at the ITA Combustion, Propulsion and Energy Laboratory (LCPE), working on compression-ignition internal combustion engines (diesel engines). He has also taught practical classes on diesel engine operation at SENAI.