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Renato Alas Martins (born 01 March 1963) is a Brazilian, Canadian and Portuguese Biologist, Geneticist, Neuroscientist and Artist. Renato Alas is well known, among other things, for his art works and scientific publications. Born in Santos, a city of Sāo Paulo State located in Brazil, Renato Alas is the 5th sun of Armando Martins and Odete Guiomar Alas Martins. Renato Alas lived in the Village of Estuário. After studying Biology at University of Sāo Paulo State (UNESP) Renato obtained his Masters Degree in Genetics and immigrated to Canada to the city of Toronto, Ontario, where developed his artistic skills and worked in places such as University of Toronto and McMaster University located in the city of Hamilton, Ontario. Deeply interested in the multidisciplinary field, Renato Alas studied and taught in several fields of human knowledge, such as: research in Molecular Biology related to Environmental Stress, Air Pollution, Aging, Business, Neuroeconomics, Neuromarketing, Marketing and Supply Chain Management. He also taught from Elementary to High School and to University Students in North America; working for the Anchorage School District as a substitute teacher and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alaska - Anchorage, Alaska USA. Renato Alas always kept his artistic production (working with wood carving, carpentry, sculpting, painting and had the opportunity to work with Alaska's Native Art, working with local artists in the city of Eagle River, Alaska.

As an artist Renato Alas obtained the first prize for his art at XI Contemporary Art Exhibition at Prodesan, July 2010, Santos-SP Brazil, in the same year Renato got the second prize at the Art Exhibition promoted by the Vicentine Art Society in the city of Sāo Vicente

In 2011 Renato Alas moved to Australia where he taught Business Statistics, Marketing and Human Anatomy at Bond University in the city of Gold Coast - Queensland, Australia. Developing research in the field of Neuroeconomics and Decision Making, Renato Alas had the opportunity to sum more publications to his collection of papers already published. In 2012 the Conference Committee of the Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research (ISBR) granted Renato Alas with the Award of Best Paper at the ISBR International Conference held in Bangkok - Thailand for the publication entitled Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Review.

Recently, Renato Alas has completed a book called Sustainable Cities, Myths and Truths. Working together with authors from several countries, such: Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Renato Alas is also promoting his art work in 2015 with exhibitions on the Municipal Chamber of Valinhos and at the Zoobotanic Park located in Santos, São Paulo - Brazil.
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Renato Alas publication collection includes:

 Conti, JH; Afonso, AA; Zama, EF; Som, A; Ribeiro, LA; Amarah, B; Al Kammes and Alas RM (2015). Sustainable Cities Myths and Truths. Under publication by Ed.: IAEP. Valinhos-São Paulo-Brazil 140p.

 Alas, RM; Kumar, K; Mukherjee, A; Nabin, MH; Bhattacharya, S. (2013). Decision-Making in Economics: Critical Lessons from Neurobiology. Chapter 4; pp 46-56. In: Economic Behavior, Game Theory, and Technology in Emerging Markets; 438p. Ed.: IGI Global. Pennsylvania USA. ISSN: 2327-5677. www.igi-global.com.

 The State of Global Sustainable Food Production, Green Supply Chain Management and Decision Making: a Multidisciplinary Review (2013). Alas, RM; Al Khamees Q and Amarah, B. To be presented at: 2013 SIBR Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Research, 6th-8th June 2013, Bangkok.

 Opening the black box. Research Week Poster Presentation. September 2012 Bond University.

 What Does Volume Reveal: A Study of The Indian Single Stock Futures Market. Alas, R. M. (*); Harminder, S. (**); Bhattacharya, S. (**). Indian Journal of Economics & Business, 11(2). pp 409-19. 2012. Bond University (*); Deakin University (**).

 Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Review (2012). Alas, R. M., Bhattacharya, S. and Kumar K. Review of Integrative Business & Economics Research, Volume 1(1) 315-34. 237 Presented at the: 2012 SIBR Conference on Interdisciplinary Business and Economics Research, 7th-9th June 2012, Bangkok. Session A3: PRODUCTION, STRATEGIC CHOICE, & PERFORMANCE. Chair: Renato Alas Martins, Best Paper Awarded (Bond University).

Risk & reward - is it all in our heads? A short survey of neuroeconomics. Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews. Renato Alas Martins (**); Munirul H Nabin (*), Ph. D.; Kuldeep Kumar (**), Ph. D.; Sukanto Bhattacharya, Ph D (*). (*) Deakin University, Australia; (**); Bond University, Australia (**). (Accepted at the 41st Australian Conference of Economists).

Optimal hedge ratio with moving least squares – an empirical study using Indian single stock futures data. Sukanto Bhattacharya (*), Harminder Singh (*) and Alas R. M(**). International Research Journal of Finance and Economics Issue 79, pp 98-111. 2011. Deakin University (*) Bond University (**).

 A practical, distribution-free approach to the classical newsboy inventory stocking problem for highly right-skewed but otherwise unknown demand distributions. Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics. Volume 14(3): 291-302. Bhattacharya, S. (*); Alas, R. M. (**) and Kumar, K. (**). Deakin University (*);; Bond University(**)2011. (ERA ranking B).

 Chapter (Potential Tropospheric Ozone Effects on Crop Plants and the Environmental Biomonitoring) in: Global Climate Changes: published by EMBRAPA (Brazilian Institution for Agriculture Research). Embrapa Meio Ambiente, Jaguariúna, SP, Brazil (2001).

 Azevedo RA, Alas RM, Smith RJ, Lea PJ. Response of antioxidant enzymes to transfer from elevated carbon dioxide to air and ozone fumigation, in the leaves and roots of wild-type and a catalase-deficient mutant of barley. PHYSIOLOGY PLANTARUM 104: (2) 280-92 OCT 1998. •	Tropospheric Ozone Effects in Crop Plants and Environmental Monitors. ALAS, R. M. (*), Rodrigues G. S. (*) and Oliveira, M. G. (**). (*) EMBRAPA (Brazilian Institution for Agriculture Research) Jaguariúna, SP, Brazil. (**) UNICAMP University of Campinas, SP, Brazil. Presentation at the Symposium Mudança Climática Global e a Agropecuária Brasileira (2000).<REF>

<REF> Ozone effects on Plant Development and ultra-structure changes in Leaf Anatomy by Scanning Microscopy. R. M. ALAS (*), S. MACHADO (†), R. J. SMITH (**), P. J. LEA (**) and R. A. AZEVEDO (††); (*) University of São Paulo-Brazil; (**) Lancaster University-UK (†) University of São Paulo State (UNESP)-Brazil; (††) University of São Paulo-Brazil. Presentation for the SBSP XII Congress 1998.<REF>

<REF> Ozone effects on Plant Leaf Anatomy by Optical and Transmission Electronic Microscopy. R. M. ALAS (*), S. MACHADO (†), R. J. SMITH (**) P. J. LEA (**) and R. A. AZEVEDO (††); (*) University of São Paulo-Brazil; (**) Lancaster University-UK (†) University of São Paulo State (UNESP)-Brazil; (††) University of São Paulo-Brazil. Presentation for the SBSP XII Congress 1998.<REF>

<REF> "Morphological and Biochemical Plant Responses to Ozone". Alas R. M.(*); O’ Hara P. (**); Smith, R.J.(**); Azevedo, R. A.(*); Lea, P. J.(**). Poster shown at "The fourth international Symposium on Responses of Plant Metabolism to Air Pollution and Global Change" Egmond Aan Zee/ The Netherlands (May 1997). Summary published at Symposium Annals. (*) Universidade de São Paulo (**) Lancaster University/UK.<REF>

<REF> "Cadmium Effect and Accumulation in (Oriza sativa L.)". Alas R.M. (*); Mattiazzo, M. E. (*); Lea, P. J. (**) and Azevedo, R. A.(*) (P6.40). Poster for the "1997 SEB Annual Meeting University of Lancaster" (Lancaster/ England) summary published at "Journal of Experimental Botany" (Volume 47, May 1996). (*) Universidade de São Paulo (**) Lancaster University /UK.<REF>

<REF> "Cadmium effect and accumulation in rice (Oriza sativa L.) ". [P6.40] Alas, R.M., Mattiazzo, M.E., Azevedo, R.A., Lea, P.J. 05/1996 In: Journal of Experimental Botany. 47, Supple, p. 79-79. 1p.<REF>

<REF> "Rice Storage Proteins: Optimization of Extraction Procedures". Alas, R. M. (*); Marchese, L. (*) Sanches, M. (*) and Azevedo, R. A. (*); Lea, P. J. (**) (P6.43). Poster for the "1996 SEB Annual Meeting University of Lancaster" (Lancaster/ England) summary published at "Journal of Experimental Botany" (Volume 47, May 1996). (*) Universidade de São Paulo (**) Lancaster University/UK.<REF>

<REF> "Electrophoresis Patterns of Bufo species, A Systematic Approach". Alas, R. M. & Jim, J. Institute of Biology University of Sao Paulo State. (UNESP) Sao Paulo-Brazil, 1989.<REF>

In the end of 2013 Renato Alas returned to Brazil where he started building his own Research Institute the so called IAEP (Institute Alas for Research and Education); together with his life time love Dr. Marcia Scala Vianna, Renato Alas also started the construction of the ScAlas Resort and the ScAlas`Botanical Gardens.