Adriana Paula Ferreira Palhares

Degree and Bachelor in Chemistry from Federal university of Viçosa (2003), with a Master's (2005) and PhD (2009) in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, in the area of #8203;#8203;Heterogeneous Catalysis and Chemical Reactors. Effective Professor of Chemical Engineering at UFSCar since 2011, currently Associate I, acting primarily in the teaching of Kinetics and Chemical Reactors. Since 2011 she has been dedicating herself to teaching and administrative activities such as Coordination of the Undergraduate Course, Coordination of the Academic Program to Support the Graduate Student at UFSCar and Teacher Training in Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies. As a researcher, she was accredited in the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering (PPGEQ) in 2015 and has been working mainly on the following themes: preparation and characterization of catalysts and nanocatalysts of supported and transition metals, mass and mixed oxides, oxidation reactions of light hydrocarbons, aromatics and CO, reform of methane, ethanol and other biomasses, production of H2 and synthesis gas (CO and H2). She investigates the characterization of materials through different spectroscopic techniques and in heterogeneous catalysis experiments "in situ" for studies of the mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)