Head of the Characterization Division. In 2012, he was named a Member of the “World Academy of Ceramics” and a Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo and in 2019 he was appointed a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Science. He graduated in Materials Science and Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 1988, at the same time he worked at 3M Brazil, where he was dedicated to the research and development of electronic and telecommunications products. He received his doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 1993. In January 1994, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Visiting Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA / USA. Currently, his research activities include synthesis and growth process of inorganic nanoparticles by chemical methods, characterization of materials by electron microscopy, thermal stability of nanostructured materials and materials for photoelectrochemical devices. He has already received several awards, including the Scopus Award, for the remarkable scientific production of Elsevier / CAPES (2006) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for the development of scientific research related to the thermal stability of nanostructured ceramics of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial (2009) ).

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