Person

Casanova, Marco Antonio

1951

Marco A. Casanova is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics and Coordinator of the Central Planning and Evaluation Office of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Military Institute of Engineering (1974), obtained a M.Sc. in Informatics from PUC-Rio (1976) and a M.Sc. (1976) and a Ph.D. (1979) in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He was Graduate Program Coordinator (2005-2007) and Director (2007-2011) of the Department of Informatics of PUC-Rio. His research interests concentrate on database conceptual modeling and construction of database management systems. In July 2012, he received the Scientific Merit Award from the Brazilian Computer Society.