Mini-curriculum

He has undergraduate in Electrical Engineering - Electronics at Barretos Educational Foundation (1986), master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo (1993), PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (1999) and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Chemistry, with group of Prof. Dr. Alan G. Macdiarmid (2002-2003). In the period 2012 to 2015 participated as a researcher of virtual labs program of Embrapa in Europe - Germany. During this time he was conducting research and organizing the internactional cooperation at "Forschungszentrum Juelich / Institute of Bio-Geosciences - 2: Plant Sciences, in new methods applied plant phenotyping. He is a researcher from the Brazilian agricultural Research Corporation since 1989. He has experience in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Electronic instrumentation and Physical Chemistry of surface applied to agriculture issues, at the nanoscale. He has interest in the following topics: agricultural instrumentation, atomic force spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, development of low cost sensors using conducting polymers and application of new methods to plant phenotyping.

Education

1982 - 1986

Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica Modalidade Eletrônica

Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional de Barretos

Obtained year: 1986

1988 - 1993

Mestrado em Engenharia Elétrica

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Construção de um equipamento para medida de umidade do solo, através de técnica de microondas.

Obtained year: 1993

Advisor: Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira

1994 - 1999

Doutorado em Físico-Química

Universidade de São Paulo

Title: Estudo de filmes finos automontados de proteínas por UV e microscopia de força atômica

Obtained year: 1999

Advisor: Luiz Alberto Colnago

2012 - 2015

Pós-Doutorado em

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Obtained year: 2015

2002 - 2003

Pós-Doutorado em

University of Pennsylvania

Obtained year: 2003

Areas of expertise

1. Grande área: Engineering / Área: Electric engineering / Subárea: Electrical, Magnetic, and Electronic Measurements / Especialidade: Instrumentação Eletrônica
2. Grande área: Engineering / Área: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering / Subárea: Non-Metallic Materials / Especialidade: Polymers, Applications
3. Grande área: Agricultural Sciences / Área: Agronomy