Joao Meirelles

Environmental Engineer, Data Scientist

About

born: 02/07/1989
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Currently

PhD student at HERUS / EPFL on Dynamics of the Urban Metabolism.
Part of Metabolism of Cities, O Fora and Online Doctorate.

Research interests

science of cities, data analysis, complex systems, mathematical modeling, urban metabolism

Education

2016- EPFL | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

2013-2015 USP | São Paulo Univerity, BR

2008-2012 UFF | Fluminense Federal University, BR

Publications

Journals

2019 Ribeiro, F; Meirelles, J; Netto, V; Rodrigues, C; Baronchelli, A. On the relation between Transversal and Longitudinal Scaling in Cities. Preprint

2019 Netto, V.M.; Brigatti, E.; Meirelles, J.; Ribeiro, F.L.; Cacholas, C. Cidades como informação V!RUS, São Carlos, n. 19, 2019

2019 Wills, W; Meirelles J; Baptista V; Cury G; Cerdeira P. A Simple Sinuosity-Based Method using GPS data to Support Mitigation Policies for Public Buses GHG Emissions. Preprint

2019 Pang, M., Meirelles, J., Moreau, V., & Binder, C. Urban carbon footprints: a consumption-based approach for Swiss households Environmental Research Communications, 2019, 2(1), 011003.

2019 Bettignies, Y., Meirelles, J., Fernandez, G., Meinherz, F., Hoekman, P., Bouillard, P., & Athanassiadis, A. The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use. Sustainability 2019, 11(12), 3246; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11123246

2018 Netto, V.M.; Brigatti, E.; Meirelles, J.; Ribeiro, F.L.; Pace, B.; Cacholas, C.; Sanches, P. Cities, from Information to Interaction. Entropy 2018, 20(11), 834; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20110834

2018 Meirelles, J; Neto CR J; Ribeiro FL; Ribeiro FL; Ferreira FF; Binder CR. Evolution of urban scaling: evidence from Brazil. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204574. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204574

2018 Netto, VM; Meirelles, J; Pinheiro, M; Lorea, H. A temporal geography of encounters. Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography [Online], Space, Society,Territory, document 844, Online since 05 February 2018. doi:10.4000/cybergeo.28985

2018 Netto, VM; Meirelles J; Ribeiro FL. Cidade e interação: o papel do espaço urbano na organização social. Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana, 10(2), 2018

2017 Netto, VM; Meirelles, J; Pinheiro, M; Lorea, H. Uma geografia temporal do encontro Revista de Morfologia Urbana, 5(2), 85-101, 2017

2017 Netto, VM; Meirelles J; Ribeiro FL. Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy. Complexity, vol. 2017, Article ID 6182503, 16 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/6182503

2017 Ribeiro FL; Meirelles J; Ferreira FF; Neto CR. A model of urban scaling laws based on distance- dependent interactions. Royal Society open science 4: 160926. 2017

Book Chapters

2016 Netto, V. M. ; Pinheiro, M. ; Pachoalino, R. ; Meirelles, J. V ; Leite, H. L. . Segregated Networks in the City. The Social Fabric of Cities. 1ed.: Routledge. p. 37-59. 2016

Conference Presentations, Papers, and Posters

2018 Wills, W; Meirelles J; Baptista, V; Cerdeira P. Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Municipal Buses in The City of Rio De Janeiro: The Use of Big Data for the Transport Sector Public Policy Formulation. 1st SDEWES LA Conference

2017 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology
presentation: The creation of a Global Urban Metabolism Database

2017 Athanassiadisa, A; Fernandez G; Meirelles J; Meinherz F; Hoekmand P; Caria Y B. Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level. Energy Procedia, vol. 122, pp. 709-714. 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.374

2016 2016 Conference on Complex Systems
presentation: A model of urban scaling laws based on distance- dependent interactions

2015 19th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers
presentation: Using Buses GPS data to measure changes in the quality of public transportation

2014 5th World Congress on Social Simulation
poster: London Riots with ABM+GIS

2014 XIX National Encounter on Demographic Studies
paper: Mobilidade urbana e sustentabilidade: elementos para a construção de um modelo de desempenho para o sistema de mobilidade urbana na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

2014 3rd Journey on Urban Modeling and Morphology
invited talk: Big Data and Cities

2014 2nd Journey on Urban Modeling and Morphology
paper: Patterns of Urban Environmental Impacts

2012 5th Urbenviron International Seminar
paper: Application of Life Cycle Assessment in the evaluation of the environmental impact of cities

Awards

2017 World Resources Forum 2017 Best Scientific Paper Award - Sustainable Construction and Smart Cities
The Global Urban Metabolism Database

Work experience

2016-now EPFL | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

2014-2016 PENSA - Big Data Team of Rio de Janeiro City Hall, BR

2012-2013 Pereira Passos Urbanism Intitute, BR

2011-2012 UN-Habitat / ROLAC, BR

2010-2011 Aqua Modelo, BR

2009-2010 Sea Projects, BR

Teacher Assisting and Tutoring

2017 EPFL | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

2016-now EPFL | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CH

2015 UNIRIO | Rio de Janeiro University, BR

2014 USP | São Paulo Univerity, BR

2010 UFF | Fluminense Federal University, BR

Complementary Formation

2017 Lipari School on Computational Complex and Social Systems, IT

2016 ETH Zurich, CH

2016 Technische Universität Wien, AT

2014 Getulio Vargas Foundation, BR

2014 ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, BR

2014 ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, BR

2014 Complex Systems Institute of Valparaiso, CL

2012 Rio de Janeiro City Hall, BR

2012 UN-Habitat, BR

2012 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES

Languages

Portuguese native
English fluent
Spanish advanced
French basic

Programming

R
Python
GIS
SQL
bash




Last updated: Nov 2019