Diego da Silva Alves

Dr. Alves was born in 1979 in Alegrete-RS, Brazil. He received his B.S. in Chemistry (2002), Masters (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) degrees in Organic Chemistry from Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). In 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Between 2008 and 2009, he worked as a researcher at the Franciscan University (UFN) in Santa Maria, Brazil. After that, he started and is performing on the position of Adjunct Professor at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, and joined the Laboratory of Clean Organic Synthesis Group (LASOL UFPel). Dr. Alves was an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2017 to 2021. Between 2013 and 2017, he was the head of the Graduate Program in Chemistry at UFPel. His research lines involve the development of efficient, green procedures for preparing organochalcogen compounds with biological activities. The use of atom-efficient reactions (click-chemistry), transition-metal catalysis, organocatalysis, direct chalcogenylation reactions and green solvents are among the protocols developed by Dr. Alves. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)