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Prof. Frank Quina is the Professor Titular of the Department of Fundamental Chemistry at the Universidade de Sao Paulo. He was appointed an Associate Editor of ACS Omega in 2017. The laboratory conducts studies in the areas of photochemistry and photophysics of organic molecules, in particular of natural plant pigments (anthocyanins); the structure and dynamics of organized systems formed by detergents and polyelectrolytes and the modification of chemical and photochemical reactivity by such systems; and environmental chemistry (mechanisms of degradation and photodegradation reactions of organic molecules). The laboratory has specialized equipment for the study of the dynamics of electronically excited states (static and time-resolved fluorescence, nanosecond laser flash photolysis.

Prof. Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. obtained his BSc and MSc from the University of São Paulo, and PhD from the University of Wales, Bangor (1990). He has led research into the fabrication of novel materials in the form of ultrathin films obtained with the Langmuir-Blodgett and self-assembly techniques. Prof. Oliveira is a founding member of the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC), a leading institute for natural language processing of Portuguese. In recent years, Prof. Oliveira has pioneered the combined use of methods from distinct fields of science, with the merge of methods of statistical physics and computer science to process text, and use of information visualization to enhance the performance of sensing and biosensing. This pioneering work is associated with the merge of nanotechnology with Big Data Analytics and machine learning. Prof. Oliveira is the vice-president of the International Union of Materials Research Societies. In 2006 he was awarded the Scopus Prize, given to 16 Brazilian researchers considered the most productive in terms of papers published and citations.

Dr. Zanchet obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (1993) and M. Sc. and Dr. Sc in Physics at University of Campinas, Brazil (1996 and 1999, respectively). She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Chemistry Department of University of Berkeley, USA (2001) and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2016). She was a researcher and group leader at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory from 2001 to 2010, working in nanomaterials and advanced characterization techniques. Dr. Zanchet moved to the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the University of Campinas in 2010 and she currently serves as Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Research Committee. Her recent focus has been on catalytic production of hydrogen using renewable feedstocks, catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic derivates to biofuels and chemicals, and the catalytic conversion of CO2 and CH4 to chemicals. She has been a Topic Editor for the ACS Publications journal Chemistry of Materials since 2022.

Dr. Soares holds a Ph.D. in chemistry with major in computational chemistry from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil and a postdoctoral training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Soares worked as research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2005-2009), full professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (2010-2021) and held invited professorships at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (2013), Umeå University, Sweden (2016), the National Institute Infectious Diseases, Japan (2019) and University of Oslo, Norway (2020, 2021-2026). Her main research interest is in the development and application of computational chemistry methodologies to understand molecular processes and to interpret experimental observations in soft matter with emphasis on bacterial lipopolysaccharide membranes.

M.A.Cotta graduated (B.Sc. in Physics,1984), with M.Sc. (1987) and Ph.D. (1991) in Physics, at the University of Campinas. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at AT & T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, USA, 1991-1993). She is currently full professor (MS6) and director (2021-2025), at the Institute of Physics, Gleb Wataghin, University of Campinas. A former member of the scientific board of Brazilian Materials Research Society (2016-2020), she currently serves as its President (2020-2024). She is executive editor of the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials and member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Accounts of Materials Research. She is also a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada. Her research projects explore the areas of Materials Science and Biological Physics, with focus on the study of advanced semiconductor nanomaterials, from synthesis to biosensor fabrication, as well as applications of optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy to basic investigations on biomaterials and biological systems.