Invited Speaker

Full Professor and director of the Institute of Chemistry of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Araraquara-SP, Brazil. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo. Member of the European Academy of Sciences. Researcher CNPq 1A (Brazilian agency- highest level). Vice-coordinator of the National Institute of Photonics, Brazil (http://inct.info/en/). Associate Editor of the Journal “Frontiers in Chemistry- Inorganic Chemistry”. Co-editor the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. Member of the international board of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. Main interests are in Inorganic Chemistry and its implications in Materials Science, Spectroscopy and Education in Chemistry. On-going research projects deal with natural polymers (bacterial cellulose and silk fibroin), organic-inorganic hybrids, waveguides, porous materials and lanthanide basedluminescent markers (down-shifting and upconversion) for Medicine.