Erico Mattos, Ph.D., co-founder of Phytosynthetix; and Anu Parvatiyar, Business Development Lead for eHealth Africa have been named the 2015 Emerging Leaders of the Year by Georgia Bio (GaBio). Additionally, Paul Evans a Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience at Emory University will receive an award for his community service in 2014. All will be honored at the GaBio Annual Awards Dinner, January 22, 6 pm to 9 pm, at the Atlanta Fox Theater.
The Emerging Leader of the Year award honors young professionals for outstanding contributions to the success of the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) and the growth of Georgia’s life sciences community. The award winner is selected by a panel of seasoned industry leaders acting as advisors to the ELN.
Erico Mattos is a passionate scientist entrepreneur. As an advocate of urban agriculture systems he sees the intelligent use of exponential technologies as a solution to reduce the price of indoor farming and increase high quality food production based on sustainable integrated systems. After getting his degree in Agronomic Engineering from University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2009, Erico joined the Ph.D. program in Crop and Soils Sciences at University of Georgia. During his PhD, Erico co-authored two technology patents on the Biological feedback control of LED lights. As a young entrepreneur, in 2013 Erico co-founded PhytoSynthetix, a company created to adapt and bring the Biological feedback control of LED lights from the lab to the industry. Along the way, Erico graduated from the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University, received the Gifted Citizen award (Mexico), and was a speaker at TEDxUGA & TEDxPeachtree.