Tiago Albertini Balbino

Tiago Albertini Balbino, PhD, is a professor at the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. He coordinates the Graduate Program in Nanotechnology Engineering, which is housed at Latin Americas largest center for research and education in engineering. Professor Balbino is a chemical engineer with a PhD and masters in chemical engineering from the UNICAMP (São Paulo, Brazil). His doctoral research focused on developing microfluidic processes for creating nanostructured systems used in vaccines and other nanomedicines, a focus he expanded during his internship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States, where he worked on microfabrication techniques for biomedical applications. He later pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PUC-Rio, advancing his expertise in microfluidic chip design. Currently, his work centers on designing innovative microfluidic chips to address challenges in nanotechnology engineering. His main research lines include: (1) Development of lipid, polymeric, and metallic nanoparticles for applications in nanovaccines and nanomedicines; (2) Organ-on-chip devices as alternative methods to animal testing, enabling disease modeling and preclinical studies with enhanced physiological relevance; (3) Optofluidic nanosensors for biomolecule detection and environmental monitoring; (4) Micromodels of porous media for flow studies in reservoirs and CO#8322; storage (CCUS); (5) Nanomaterials for solar energy applications, contributing to advances in sustainability and energy technologies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)