Álvaro Penteado Crósta

Alvaro Penteado Crósta is a Brazilian geologist, specialized in remote sensing and mineral exploration. He is an authority on the impact structures of Brazil and South America in general, and also known for the Crosta method/technique, used in mineral exploration for detecting evidence of base and precious metals mineralization through multispectral and hiperspectral remote sensing images .[1][2][3]

Crósta got a Bachelor's degree in geology from the University of São Paulo in 1977, a Master's degree from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of University of London in 1990. In 1995—1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Desert Research Institute of the University of Nevada at Reno.[1] In 2010 he acted as a visiting scientist at the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2018 he was a visiting scholar at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia and in 2018/2019 a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

As of 2005, he is a Full Professor at the Geosciences Institute of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He was the Institute's Director from 2005 to 2010[1] and UNICAMP´s Vice-Rector from 2013 to 2017. [4] He is a full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a full Member of the Academy of Sciences of São Paulo State.