Lucas Gobatti

v. Science communication


(2026) ‘Where should we plant trees to cool down our cities?’

Quickfire Pitch at the Global Young Scientist Summit, 
organised by Singapore’s National Research Foundation
(Prime Minister’s Office) 

YouTube channel: National Research Foundation of Singapore

Paper: [under review]

(2024) ‘Plant a tree yesterday’

Selected video for 2024 Nature Awards Science in Shorts

YouTube channel: Nature Portfolio

Paper: ‘Using satellite imagery to investigate Blue-Green Infrastructure establishment time for urban cooling’(2024) ‘How long it takes for urban vegetation to reach peak cooling?’

Self-produced video featuring my supervisors 
Prof. João Leitão and Dr. Peter M. Bach.

YouTube channel: Peter M. Bach

Paper: ‘Using satellite imagery to investigate Blue-Green Infrastructure establishment time for urban cooling’

vi. In the media

(09.2025) ‘Trees need water to cool the city’
EAWAG news, Claudia Carle, LINK 🔗

 (09.2025) ‘Trees need water to cool the city’
ETH Zürich D-BAUG news, Iris Mickein, 09.2025, LINK 🔗


(03.2025) ‘The NotebookLM Mini Series #1: Cooling establishment time, it's like baking a cake’
The Grand Challengers Podcast, Peter M. Bach, LINK 🔗(02.2025) ‘Confronting ‘displacements’ in planning urban nature, climate and heat’
The Grand Challengers Podcast, Peter M. Bach, LINK 🔗 (09.2024) ‘Projeto Muçurana une Brasil e Suíça no bairro da Brasilândia’
FAU USP Destaques, LINK 🔗 (08.2024) ‘D-BAUG science video selected by Nature Awards’
ETH Zürich D-BAUG news, Iris Mickein, LINK 🔗

(01.2024) ‘Using satellite imagery to optimise urban cooling’
ETH Zürich D-BAUG news, Editorial Office, LINK 🔗
(09.2023) ‘Mit Grün und Blau gegen die Hitze’ (starts at 21min34sec)
SRF 2 Kultur, Wissenschaftsmagazin, Hirn aus dem Computer, Remo Vitelli, LINK 🔗
(09.2023) September newsletter: participant highlights 
NASA-ARSET, LINK 🔗(08.2023) ‘Using satellite imagery to optimise urban cooling’
Eawag News, Andri Bryner, LINK 🔗
(06.2022) ‘Vegetação nos tetos pode ser uma opção interessante para a gestão da água nas cidades’
Rádio USP, LINK 🔗
(04.2018) ‘Olhar para sentir’
Revista Vida Simples, Débora Gomes, LINK 🔗

(03.2018) ‘O caminho para o autoconhecimento’
Revista Vida Simples, Débora Gomes, LINK 🔗
(02.2018) Your Shot Photo Best Photo
National Geographic, LINK 🔗

vii. Scientific publications (5 highlights)

(2025) ‘Impact of soil moisture content on urban tree evaporative cooling and human thermal comfort’
Gobatti, L.; Bach, P.M.; Maurer, M.; Leitão, J.P.
npj Urban Sustainability, Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00220-0

(2023) ‘Using satellite imagery to investigate Blue-Green Infrastructure establishment time for urban cooling’
Gobatti, L.; Bach, P.M.; Scheidegger, A.; Leitão, J.P.
Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104768 (2023) ‘Unmanaged vegetated roofs hydrological performance in subtropical areas: An investigation in São Paulo, Brazil’
Gobatti, L.; Leite, B.C.C.
Science of the Total Environment, Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162417
(2022) ‘Vegetated roofs rainwater management experimental research in Brazil: a georeferenced exhaustive review of a continental-size country’
Gobatti, L.; Leite, B.C.C.
Cleaner Production Letters, Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2022.100013 (2022) ‘Real-time sensing and low-cost experimental setup for water quantity investigation in Nature-based Solutions’ 
Gobatti, L.; Martins, J.R.S.; Pereira, M.C.S.; Leite, B.C.C.
Blue-Green Systems, IWA Publishing
DOI: 10.2166/bgs.2022.007 

iii. Bookshelf
This is a selection of some of the books that made me who I am (ordered by last author’s last name).


O Bem Viver: uma oportunidade para imaginar outros mundos
Alberto Acosta
Educação e emancipação
Theodor W. Adorno
Coisa de Rico
Michel Alcoforado
The apprentice tourist
Mário de Andrade
Poststructuralism: a very short introduction
Catherine Belsey
MST: a construção do comum
Susana Bleil
On the origin of stories
Brian Boyd
Mathematical models of social evolution: a guide for the perplexed
Richard McElreath and Robert Boyd
Pós-extrativismo e decrescimento
Alberto Acosta and Ulrich Brand
Advice for a young investigator
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Espinosa e Zen Budismo: beatitude e iluminação
Donati Caleri
Cannibal metaphysics
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
A Invenção da Paisagem
Anne Cauquelin
Stray species: a threat?
Francis Hallé, François Letourneux, Gilles Clement
Continental philosophy: a very short introduction
Simon Critchley
A Ch’ixi world is possible: essays from a present in crisis
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Not exactly: in praise of vagueness 
Kees van Deemter
Spinoza: practical philosophy
Gilles Deleuze
A bestiary of the anthropocene
Nicolas Nova and Disnovation.org
Paradoxes of green: landscapes of a city-state
Gareth Doherty
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering Eds: Diane P. Michelfelder, Neelke Doorn
Rescuing the social function of the economy: Brazil is back
Ladislau Dowbor
What we know about climate change
Kerry Emanuel
Dialectics of nature
Friedrich Engels
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation
Silvia Federici 
Re-enchanting the world: feminism and the politics of the commons
Silvia Federici
Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics: ...or why things tend to go wrong and seem to get worse
Robert Fleck
Pedagogy of the opressed
Paulo Freire
Um naturalista no antropoceno: um biólogo em busca do selvagem
Mauro Galetti
The metamorphosis of plants
John Wolfgang von Goethe
A thousand plateaus
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
Trabalho e linguagem: para a renovação do socialismo
Fernando Haddad
Infocracy: digitalization and the crisis of democracy
Byung-Chul Han
In praise of the Earth: a journey into the garden
Byung-Chul Han
The burnout society
Byung-Chul Han
The heart of the Buddha’s teaching
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditação andando: guia para a paz interior
Thich Nhat Hanh
Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion
Sam Harris
A companion to Marx’s capital
David Harvey
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
David Harvey
The question concerning technology
Martin Heidegger
Einstein and religion
Max Jammer
Concreto: arma de construção em massa do capitalismo
Anselm Jappe
Ideas to postpone the end of the world
Ailton Krenak
The structure of scientific revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
The right to be lazy
Paul Lafargue
Cultura, um conceito antropológico
Roque de Barros Laraia
If we lose the Earth we lose our souls
Bruno Latour
A cidade do capital
Henri Lefebvre
O desejo dos outros: uma etnografia dos sonhos Yanomami
Hanna Limulja
The nation of plants
Stefano Mancuso
The revolutionary genius of plants: a new understanding of plant intelligence
Stefano Mancuso
O Capital 
(Vol. 1)
Karl Marx
O Capital 
(Vol. 2)
Karl Marx
O Capital
(Vol. 3)
Karl Marx
Necropolitics
Achille Mbembe
Anthropocene or capitalocene? Nature, history, and the crisis of capitalism
Jason W. Moore
Descolonizar o imaginário
Org: Miriam Lang, Gerhard Dilger & Jorge Pereira Neto
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Martha C. Nussbaum
São Paulo: o planejamento da desigualdade
Raquel Rolnik
Philosophy of Science: a contemporary introduction
Alex Rosenberg
Survival of the beautiful 
David Rothenberg
Karl Marx’s ecosocialism: capital, nature, and the unfinished critique of political economy
Kōhei Saitō
Slow down: how degrowth communism can save the earth
Kōhei Saitō
The nature of space
Milton Santos
Regenerantes de Gaia
Fabio Rubio Scarano
Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, movements, and nature
David Schlosberg
Staying alive: women, ecology, and development
Vandana Shiva
Em busca da comunidade: caminhos do pensamento crítico no Sul Global
Fabricio Pereira da Silva
Sistema de justiça indígena: aspectos jurídicos e antropológicos
Márcio Rosa da Silva
Cartas a Spinoza
Nise da Silveira
Introdução à economia solidária
Paul Singer
What’s yours is mine
Tom Slee
Alternativas Sistêmicas: bem-viver, decrescimento, comuns, ecofeminismo, direitos da mãe Terra e desglobalização
Org: Pablo Sólon
Ethics 
Baruch de Spinoza
As fronteiras do neoextrativismo na América Latina
Maristella Svampa
A history and philosophy of fluid mechanics
G. A. Tokaty
Urban Climates
T. R. Oke, G. Mills, A. Christen, J. A. Voogt
The Routledge handbook of Environmental Justice 
Eds: Ryan Holifield, Jayajit Chakraborty, Gordon Walker
The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate
Peter Wohlleben
La Pachamama y el humano
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni
Violence
Slavoj Žižek
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