Erico Mattos is a passionate scientist-entrepreneur. As an advocate of urban agriculture systems, he sees the intelligent use of exponential technologies as a means to reducing the price of indoor farming and increasing food production quantity and quality based on sustainable integrated systems.

After receiving his degree in agronomic engineering from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2009, Erico joined the University of Georgia‘s Ph.D. program in crop and soils sciences, where he co-authored two technology patents on the biological feedback control of LED lights. In 2012, Erico completed Singularity University’s graduate studies program.

The following year, Erico co-founded PhytoSynthetix, which develops ultra-high performance LED illumination systems for photosynthetic applications. He is a 2013 recipient of the Gifted Citizen Award.

 

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