Prof. Dr. Paulo Henrique Schneider

Full professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Professor Schneider, born in Estrela – RS, Brazil, began his academic history at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), where he obtained his degree in Chemistry (2000), and in 2004 his PhD under the guidance of Professor Antônio Luiz Braga, at the same University, working on the synthesis of chiral ligands and their applications on asymmetric catalysis. In 2005, he moved to Porto Alegre for a postdoctoral position at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where in 2006 he started his independent academic research career as a Professor at the Organic Chemistry Department.

Webpage: www.paulosresearchgroup.com Instagram: @schneider_research_group.

Prof. Dr. Julio Cezar Pastre

Associate Professor at the University of Campinas – UNICAMP

Professor Pastre obtained his PhD (2009) at the University of Campinas – UNICAMP. He then worked as a research scientist at Rhodia-Solvay before moving back to UNICAMP for postdoctoral studies. In 2012, he joined the group of Professor Steven Ley at the University of Cambridge. Two years later, Julio established his independent research group at UNICAMP and recently became Associate Professor. He was recognized an ‘Emerging Investigator’ by Reaction Chemistry & Engineering and RSC Advances and ‘New Talent from the Americas’ by RSC Medicinal Chemistry. Its research group is interested in raw materials from renewable sources, as well as agro-industrial waste, represent an attractive source of useful chemical functionalities. Our research group has already identified the use of enabling technologies for the valorization of such materials. Thus, research in the Pastre Group focuses on the development of new methods using enabling technologies for the sustainable chemical synthesis of platform molecules, new chemicals, and bioactive compounds.

Twitter: @juliopastre

Prof. Dr. Josiel Barbosa Domingos

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina / Full Professor

Prof. Domingos is a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). He received his PhD from UFSC and University of California, Santa Barbara, under supervision of Prof. Faruk Nome and Prof. Clifford Bunton, in 2003. He continued postdoctoral studies with Prof. Florian Hollfelder (2003-2005) at the University of Cambridge and then with Prof. Jairton Dupont (2005-2006) at the UFRGS. His main research interests include the study of catalytic organic reactions mechanisms and the development of new metal catalytic systems for bioorthogonal chemistry applications.

Webpage: https://lacbio.ufsc.br/

Prof. Dr. Ângelo de Fátima

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Full Professor

Professor De Fátima holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the Federal University of Viçosa (1999), a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry (2002), a PhD in Sciences (2005) and a Postdoctoral degree in Biochemistry-Signal Transduction (2006) from the State University of Campinas. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Institute of Exact Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais since 2006.

Prof. Dr. Fernanda Andreia Rosa

State University of Maringa – Director Research

Master of Chemistry/Organic Synthesis, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (2004-2005). Doctor of Chemistry/Organic Synthesis, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil (2005-2008). Researcher of Prati-Donaduzzi Pharmaceutical Industry, Brazil (2008-2011). Associate Professor – State University of Maringa, Brazil (2011-Present). RSC/BMOS Early Career Investigator Award (2022).

Prof. Dr. Mônica Tallarico Pupo

University of São Paulo, Full Professor

Prof. Pupo is a Full Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP), University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, where she currently holds the position of deputy director. She graduated in Pharmacy in 1990 from USP, Ribeirão Preto campus, and then earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry (Natural Products) from Federal University of São Carlos in 1997. She was a postdoctoral researcher at São Carlos Institute of Physics, USP, for one year, and then she joined FCFRP-USP in 1998 as an assistant professor. She was appointed as associated professor in 2009 and full professor in 2019. She was a visiting scholar at Jon Clardy’s group (Harvard Medical School) from 2006 to 2007. She coordinates the Laboratory of Chemistry of Microorganisms (LQMo) at FCFRP-USP. She has continuously coordinated projects funded by CAPES, CNPq and FAPESP, including several international joint grants such as the most recent International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG), jointly supported by FAPESP and FIC/NIH (2014-2020) and U.S.-Brazil Collaborative Biomedical Research Program, jointly supported by CNPq/MS and NIH (2020-2023).

Prof. Dr. Marcio Weber Paixao

Federal University of São Carlos – Associated Professor

He received his BSc in Chemistry in 2003 from the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM, Brazil. In 2007, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. A. L. Braga (UFSM – Brazil) and co- supervision of Professor Dr Ludger Wessjohann (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry – IPB Halle – Germany). He immediately started postdoctoral studies at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and then at the Center for Catalysis, University of Aarhus, DK, where he worked under the supervision of Professor. Karl A. Jørgensen. In 2010 he started his independent career at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. In 2012 he worked as a visiting professor in the Group of Professor Carlos F. Barbas III at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). From 2016 to 2017 he had a sabbatical research stay at the University of California Berkeley with Professor F. Dean Toste.

Webpage: https://www.cersuschem.ufscar.br/

Instagram:@mwpaixao.