Industrial Decision Intelligence

Dr. Brenno Castrillon Menezes

Turning complex industrial operations into optimal decisions — 10 years inside PETROBRAS refineries, the Carnegie Mellon school of optimization, and a professorship in the energy heart of the Gulf.

“From the refinery floor to the algorithm.”

Dr. Brenno Castrillon Menezes

Current role

Head Engineer — IPT São Paulo

Doctorate

Chemical Engineering, UFRJ

Specialty

Planning, scheduling & optimization

The journey

Three decades across industry, academia and applied research.

Foundation

BSc, MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering — UFRJ

Including a 16-month doctoral residency at Carnegie Mellon University, collaborating with Prof. Ignacio Grossmann on multiscale optimization.

Industry

10 years at Petrobras

Implemented production planning and scheduling optimization and rigorous simulation across the company's 12 refineries.

Academia

Assistant professor — Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

College of Science and Engineering, after post-doctoral research at IPT and Carnegie Mellon.

Today

Head Engineer — Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas, São Paulo

Leading applied research on soil remineralization and sustainable agriculture.

Expertise

Where science meets operations.

01

Advanced planning & scheduling

APS and APC for the process industries — recognized specialist in production optimization.

02

Multiscale optimization

Mathematical modeling and simulation bridging molecules, units and enterprise decisions.

03

Sustainable agriculture

Soil remineralization research — geoscience applied to food security and decarbonization.

Contact

Research, consulting or collaboration?

contact@brennocastrillon.com