Fernando Jose Luna de Oliveira

Fernando José Luna de Oliveira is assistant professor, since 1999, at the Northern Rio de Janeiro State University, where he teaches undergraduate chemistry courses and advises graduate students in the areas of catalysis and the history of chemistry. He completed his doctorate in sciences at Campinas State University (Unicamp) in 1998, with a dissertation on the use of solid catalysts for selective oxidation of hydrocarbons. Prior to that, he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in Fortaleza-Brazil (1989), and a master's degree in inorganic chemistry from Ibaraki University in Mito-Japan (1993). He also lived and studied in Wisconsin during his high school senior year and in Leuven-Belgium, where he did part of the experimental work for his doctorate. At his present post, in addition to supervising graduate and undergraduate students whose research involves the use of catalysts for the production of biofuels and for environmentally friendly fertilizers, he has been doing research on the history of chemistry in Brazil and was recently on leave for a post-doc fellowship at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro. He has published a dozen articles in specialized journals such as Foundations of Chemistry and the Journal of the Chemical Society-Faraday Trans. and contributes regularly as reviewer for Brazilian and International publications. For the past year and half he has been writing a chemistry textbook to be used in the distance learning project implemented by a consortium of Brazilian Universities. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)