João Manoel de Lima Júnior

Currently in my doctoral program, as a FAPESP scholarship recipient, I am working on the development of a reference material for spodumene (lithium ore) and direct analysis via Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). This project is being conducted in partnership with the Technological Characterization Laboratory (LCT) of the Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP). From 2021 to 2023, as a CNPq scholarship recipient, I worked as a researcher at LCT-USP, developing analytical methodologies for the analysis of geological samples by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP OES). In 2020, I completed my Master's degree, as a FAPESP scholarship recipient, in Science and Technology/Chemistry at the Federal University of ABC. During my master's program (2018 to 2020), I worked with dispersive solid-phase microextraction, analysis by ICP OES, and LIBS at the Laboratory of Molecular and Atomic Spectroanalytics (LEMA). In my undergraduate studies in Chemistry (Bachelor's degree with Technological Attributes) at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2017), I was a scholarship recipient in the analytical chemistry research laboratory, working on the analysis of potentially toxic metals in cosmetics using Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (FAAS) during my scientific initiation from 2016 to 2017. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)