ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo
He was born in Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará, is a Civil Engineer (UFRJ, 1956), Master of Science (NYU, 1958) and Doctor of Philosophy (NYU, 1961). For several years he was Professor at the universities of Illinois and Brasília. He is currently a Professor at UNICAMP. In 1965 and 1984 was awarded a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and since 1985 a category 1A researcher of CNPq. In 1992 he was awarded the Scholarship of Academic Recognition “Zeferino Vaz”, by the University Council of UNICAMP and in 1995 with the Grã Cruz da Ordem do Mérito Científico.
His research field is the theory of partial differential equations, having written several monographs and research papers published in specialized magazines in Brazil and abroad.
