CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professional Experience:My career began as an office assistant at Cocamar in Paraná (19841990). I was a collaborating professor in the Department of Mathematics at UEM (20042008), and since 2008, I have been a professor (currently Associate IV) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UFSCar.Roles at UFSCar:I am involved in teaching and research at both undergraduate and graduate levels. I served as the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering (PPGEQ) from 2021 to 2025. I was the faculty representative on the Graduate Committee for Chemical Engineering (20192021) and coordinated the research area in Biochemical Engineering within the Department of Chemical Engineering (20172019). I also coordinated extension and research programs (20142019), the internship committee for the Chemical Engineering program (20122013), and represented the department on the coordination council of the Chemistry program at UFSCar (20092012). Since 2010, I have been a permanent faculty member of the PPGEQ.Research:As the leader of the research group on enzymatic process engineering registered with CNPq and a CNPq Level 1D productivity fellow, I supervise masters and doctoral students in the PPGEQ at UFSCar. My research areas include enzyme immobilization and stabilization, industrial applications of free and immobilized enzymes, production and purification of microbial and plant proteins, development of magnetic supports and biocatalysts, and the utilization of agro-industrial residues.Target Products:Our research focuses on the production of fatty acid esters for fuels (biodiesel), lubricants, biosurfactants/emulsifiers, cyclodextrins, fructose and maltose syrups, gluconates, and protein hydrolysates. We evaluate the performance of free and immobilized enzymes in various reactor configurations, such as stirred tanks, fixed beds, fluidized beds, and vortex flow reactors. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) system was granted by FAPESP through the Thematic Project 2016/10636-8 (From the cell factory to the biodiesel-bioethanol integrated biorefinery: a systems approach applied to complex problems in micro and macroscales), and will be part of the park of equipment of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Federal University of Sao Car…
This proposal intends to face technological challenges put forth by a new conception of integrated biorefinery, taking advantage of synergies between the production processes of the two most important biofuels in the Brazilian context: 1st and 2nd generation bioethanol from sugarcane, and biodiesel from vegetable oils and of microbial origin. With this purpose, researchers with large expe…
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The global energy matrix still heavily depends on fossil fuels, resulting in socio- environmental harm to various societies. The advent of current capitalism contributes to the segregation of traditional populations from productive means. Thus, the aim of this work is to evaluate the use of biocatalysts to transform babassu oil coconut oil, produced in the Amazon region, into high-value p…
Under the concept of biorefinery, the biotechnology industry has been seeking the use of abundant renewable raw materials in order to convert them into high value-added products, in addition to meeting the principles of sustainability and green chemistry. In this context, sugar fatty esters, non-ionic surfactants, of low toxicity and biodegradable, appear like some of these products of ec…
Biodiesel is traditionally produced by homogeneous basic catalysis, which requires refined oils with low acidity in order to avoid saponification reactions. Refined oils account for a large amount (70-80%) of the total cost for biodiesel production. Therefore, inedible oils of low quality (oils with high content of free acids) could contribute to the reduction of the costs of production o…
In this research the enzyme invertase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae will be immobilized using the CLEA (cross-linked enzyme aggregate) technique. The main goal is to have an insoluble biocatalyst that is active, stable, and low cost, due to the fact that the immobilization technique not require the use of solid support, use unpurified enzymes and low cost reagents (precipitants and crossl…
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Sugar fatty acid esters (SFAEs) are nonionic surfactants widely used in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. They are usually synthesized from the esterification of sugars and fatty acids in the presence of chemical catalysts. Nonetheless, this approach requires high energy consume and presents low selectivity, turning the products separation/purification steps costly. As an alt…
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