Danilo Martins dos Santos

Currently a Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University (USA), where he leads interdisciplinary projects focused on the development of smart therapeutic systems, wearable and ingestible medical devices, and personalized medicine applications. Between 2022 and 2023, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Womens Hospital (USA), focusing on the development of bioactive scaffolds and advanced drug delivery systems for regenerative medicine. From 2018 to 2023, he conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Laboratory for Nanotechnology Applied to Agribusiness at Embrapa Instrumentation (Brazil), working in the areas of nanotechnology, biomaterials engineering, and the development of nanostructured materials for controlled and sustained drug delivery, as well as the design of sensors and biosensors. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (2018) from the Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo (IQSC/USP), with an emphasis on Polymer Physical Chemistry. He earned a Masters degree in Molecular Sciences (2014) and a Bachelors degree in Industrial Chemistry (2012) from the State University of Goiás (UEG). He also completed a specialization in Quality and Productivity (2024) at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Poli-USP), with a focus on Quality by Design (QbD) for pharmaceutical industry applications.His areas of expertise include the physical chemistry of macromolecules, materials chemistry, and nanotechnology, with an emphasis on the development of polymeric nanomaterials for biomedical and agro-environmental applications. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)