Researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM/Ridc) and professor Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques, will participate in the international committee of the Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud to prepare a list of candidates for the highest prize in the field of geography. This award is considered the Nobel Prize in geography and has been held since 1991, adopting the same procedures for choosing the winners.

Social scientist Eduardo Marques is a deputy director of CEM and livre-docente professor of the Political Science Department at FFLCH-USP. He works in the following subjects: public policies, sociology and urban politics, social networks and urban poverty. He is also currently the “Corresponding Editor for Latin America” of IJURR Magazine (www.ijurr.org). He is also Chair of the International Sociological Association (2014/2018), trustee of the FURS - Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (England), member of the Strategic Council and a contributing professor at the Urban School of Sciences Po (Paris) ReSolution of CEM and CASA/UCL (FAPESP and ESRC funding), and coordinator of the area of political science at FAPESP. Productivity Researcher CNPQ 1B.

Every autumn, a jury of five academics who work in the field of geography of different nationalities (usually five members of Gymnase Vosgien) choose a winner from a list of 240 reputed geographers/schoolars from various parts of the world. Marques' was asked to participate in this committee due to the surveys coordinated by him and his works in the field of geography.