Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
is the Senior Vice-President, Research Networks, at Elsevier and professor emeritus for the Physics Institute, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. While at Unicamp, he was the Vice-President for Research, and then served as President of the university. He has served as President of the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP, and as its Science Director. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Science (TWAS) and the State of São Paulo (Brazil) Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and of the American Physical Society (APS). He has received the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France), the Order of the Scientific Merit (Brazil) and the Order of the British Empire (OBE).