Rudi Henri van Els

Academic and Professional Profile

• Current position: Associate Professor at the University of Brasília (UnB), Faculty of Science and Technology in Engineering (FCTE), Energy Engineering programme.
• Areas: Electrical Engineering with emphasis on process control and automation; renewable energy, rural electrification and electric mobility.

Collaboration with CEDIS

Mentor of the AgroMart project together with André Lanna — a platform supporting Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups, built through successive undergraduate theses at FCTE/UnB.

He co-advised four of the project’s undergraduate theses, all recorded in UnB’s digital library of student work:

• 2022 — An evolution of the Agromart project: open source, payment methods and co-farmer management.
• 2023 — An evolution of the Agromart project: individualized and automated deployment of a CSA environment.
• 2023 — Payment integration module and maintenance for the Agromart software.
• 2023 — Association for Agromart applications of a CSA in cloud.

Supervisory Experience

Current projects 1

2021

AgroMart

A free software platform connecting family farmers to consumers, built through successive undergraduate theses at FCTE/UnB since 2021.

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Academic Background

• PhD, Center for Sustainable Development - University of Brasília (2008).
• MSc in Electrical Engineering - University of Brasília.
• BSc in Electrical Engineering - Federal University of Maranhão (1990).