Izadora Fonseca Reis

I hold a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), completed in 2016. In 2019, I obtained my Masters degree in Chemistry through the Multicenter Graduate Program in Chemistry of Minas Gerais, where my research focused on obtaining lanthanide complexes with spiropyrans and studying their electronic properties. This research was conducted at the Laboratory of Polymeric and Supramolecular Systems, also at UNIFEI. I completed my Ph.D. in 2023 through the Graduate Program in Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos (IQSC), University of São Paulo (USP). During my Ph.D., I was a member of the Molecular Fluorescence Group (GFM) and focused my research on "Single-Molecule" studies. This involved conducting experiments using wide-field total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy to evaluate the in situ catalytic activity of Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reactions. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), working in the LabIvo. My research focuses on developing highly efficient single-atom catalysts (SACs) based on nitrogen-doped carbon materials and crystalline carbon nitrides for catalytic applications. In particular, I study reactions such as the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2), methane reduction, and hydrogen evolution. During my postdoctoral fellowship at UFSCar, I spent three months as a visiting researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany in 2024. There, I worked with materials such as nitrogen-doped carbon, polymeric carbon nitrides, and crystalline carbon nitrides, applied in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical experiments for water splitting. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)