Graduation in Chemistry by the Institute of Chemistry / University of São Paulo (USP) and Master Degree in the biomolecular physics program of the Institute of Physics of São Carlos / USP. Currently developing a doctorate by the Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos/USP. The main academic interests are in the field of the Origins of life and in Astrobiology, especially in the study of thermodynamics in interactions between geological and biological or protobiological systems. As an undergraduated researcher, gained experience in a research project related to self-organized structures, such as biomimetic aggregates. Concluded a master degree research related to chemical disequilibria caused by radioactive decay radiolysis in deep subsurface environments and its outcomes for emergence of life and for habitability in the Europa icy moons. Currently the research project focuses on the perspectives of thermodynamics and electrochemistry of the alkaline hydrothermal vent model for the emergence of life, and on the adaptation of this hypothesis in the context of natural radioactive environments (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Despite its complexity, the living systems present, in numerous processes for their maintenance, certain kinetic and thermodynamic specificities. In these, the natural chemosmotic and electrochemical gradients as driving forces is coupled to various metabolic pathways by enzymatic systems. Considering this universal characteristic of known life, it was developed in the last 30 years one o…
Natural nuclear reactors have been described as natural geological arrangements containing fissile material and water in rocky environment, resulting in controlled chain nuclear reaction, which remained active for thousands or millions of years. These environments may have had a role in the process of emergence of life and evolution in the context of pre-Cambrian ecosystems becaus it prov…
In the investigation of the origin of living systems, the alkaline hydrothermal vents (AHVs) are proposed as one of the most promising scenario to hatchery life on prebiotic Earth. The so-called AHV theory has proposed an energy-transfer mechanism, based on the chemiosmotic theory, as requisite processes of the first steps of emergence of life. Therefore, submarine environments of AHVs on…
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